Burger King recently released a $1 bacon burger. Only a dollar and it comes with bacon? Excellent. In a typical case of fast food advertising vs. reality, though. the bacon isn’t quite as advertised. Matt tried the burger and found that the reality is quite pitiful when compared to the luscious bacon-stuffed bun shown in photos. [More]
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Oscar Mayer Figures Serving Up A PR Stunt With Bacon Will Get The Public To Bite
By 9.11.12
Here at Consumerist, we’ve seen more than our fair share of PR stunts designed to lure us in and think “Gee, that product really is great!” But when said promotion involves bacon we already know we love the product and so it works. Oscar Mayer is betting on the general public’s love of meat with its new promo featuring a comedian who’s trying to barter his way across the country with only a trailer full of bacon to get by. [More]
Burger King Gives Us The Bacon Sundae We’ve Always Wanted But Were Afraid To Ask For
By 6.12.12
Burger King, home of the Whopper and, at least for a limited time, the bacon sundae. [More]
Makers Of Baconnaise Introduce Eternal Pork Embrace: The Bacon Coffin
By 3.30.12
For diehard bacon aficionados, bacon is not just a way of life, but could also be a way to spend eternity. And no, we don’t mean overeating it to the point of artery-clogging, we mean that J&D’s Foods have created what they call the Bacon Coffin, painted to resemble that supreme pork product and cradle you six feet under forevermore. [More]
Bacon Prices Expected To Surge This Summer
By 7.4.11
Your bacon budget may go bust this summer if analysts’ predictions come true. One indicator is pork belly prices, which have surged to $130 per 100 pounds and could top $150, which it reached last August. A factor contributing to bacon inflation is rising corn prices, which have caused hog farmers to pare their herds, making bacon cost $4.77 a pound in May. [More]
If You Wanted Real Bacon, You Should Have Said So
By 5.5.11
While Denny’s continues to celebrate the glorious festival of Baconalia, Robert encountered quite the opposite recently at a local restaurant. He ordered a Cobb salad that included, among other things, bacon. When it arrived containing imitation bacon, he complained to the waitress and was told that if he wanted real bacon, he should have specified that he wanted the real thing. [More]
It's Bacon Flavored Air!
By 3.31.11
If you find yourself skipping your kid’s birthday party and turning down intimacy time with your beloved to attend Denny’s Baconalias, you may need Bacon Air. It’s like Nicorette for bacon addicts. It’s a small inhaler of bacon-flavored air so you can get your porcine fix without those nasty side effects like cholesterol or heart attacks. And also like Nicorette it can simply be used for times when it’s not easy to smoke (bacon), like inside a New York bar, onboard transatlantic flights, or at the gym. Since launching this week it appears supplies are already sold out. Clearly this is a market whose needs had previously gone unmet. [More]
Burger King's Stacker Deal Uses Questionable Math, Robs Customers Of Bacon
By 3.11.11
Do you like to mix and match your fast food items? Stephen was contemplating the current pricing structure of the Burger King Stacker, and realized that the modular sandwich relies on some strange math. Sure, you can pay more and receive more patties, but the best deal comes if you’re willing to toss out two buns and combine three single Stackers into a sort of Ultimate Triple Stacker. [More]
Man Holds Bikini Bacon Contest For Charity. Except Charity Doesn't Exist.
By 11.18.10
A restaurant owner had a sizzling idea: a bikini bacon contest. Women were judged based on patron hoots and hollers in their ability to wear bikinis made out of woven bacon. The proceeds from the night and from the raffle tickets were all to go to a foundation for juvenile diabetes. Sounds great, except the charity doesn’t exist. CBS Sacramento’s Call Kurtis investigates. [More]
Bacon, Hot Dogs, French Fries, Cheese, Gravy, French Toast And Maple Syrup Combine In 'Angry French Canadian'
By 11.5.10
A couple days ago, we asked you to describe the best sandwich ever, but little did we know that the same guys behind the world’s worst pizza had already been working on something they call the Angry French Canadian. [More]
What's Next For The Folks Behind Bacon Salt & Baconnaise?
By 10.7.10
J&D’s Foods is the company that has earned a spot in our heart (and arteries) with their products like Bacon Salt, Baconnaise, Bacon Lip Balm and bacon-flavored envelopes aren’t just sitting on their salty, smoked rumps. The company is hard at work at other products, and is also auctioning off this bacon bust of — who else? — Kevin Bacon. [More]
Wendy's Cook: I Pulled Knife On Co-Worker For Serving Bad Bacon
By 8.30.10
An employee at a Wendy’s in Connecticut has been charged with second-degree assault, first-degree reckless endangerment, threatening and breach of peace after allegedly pulling a knife and threatening to stab a co-worker. But he claims it was all for a good reason: He was upset at the other employee for serving bacon that had dropped on the floor. [More]
Wendy's Ditches Crappy Bacon, But You Might Have To Pay More
By 8.4.10
For quite some time, fast-foodies have complained that the flimsy, translucent bacon on Wendy’s sandwiches like the Junior Bacon Cheeseburger paled in comparison to the Applewood-smoked bacon the eatery uses on the Bacon Deluxe or the Baconator. That’s all about to change as Wendy’s phases out the cheaper pork product. Unfortunately, that means you might end up paying more. [More]
More Freaky Fried Foods From San Diego
By 6.24.10
Your eyes do not deceive you. Wade shot this photo at the San Diego County Fair, proving that deep fried butter and chocolate covered bacon are out there somewhere, just waiting to invade your arteries in a combo that can be yours for a down payment of $9.20 followed by countless dollars in future hospital bills. [More]
Consumerist Friday Flickr Finds
By 6.11.10
Here are eight of the best photos that readers added to The Consumerist Flickr Pool this week, picked for neatness and usability in a Consumerist post. Also, there’s a bacon recipe.
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Are You Ready For Your Bacon Latte?
By 5.7.10
Bacon donuts. Bacon and egg burgers. Bacon cooked in a machine gun. Have we left anything out that might make your breakfast extra-super-bacony? Of course: bacon-flavored coffee! Thanks to the syrup sprites at Torani, this frontier has at last been breached, and bacon lattes are just a stirrer away. [More]
Cook Bacon In A Machine Gun
By 4.2.10
Obviously, this is how KFC should prepare the bacon for the Double Down, KFC’s bacon and cheese on fried chicken “bread” sandwich—by wrapping it around the barrel of a machine gun and firing about 200 times, for that extra dose of smoky manly flavor. I can already feel my arteries clogging in anticipation. [Reddit via Eater] [More]
