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08-08-2009, 10:32 AM
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Chocolate Covered Bacon
It has come to my attention that many state fairs this summer are offering chocolate covered bacon — on a stick, no less — as a walk-around treat.
I considered it my duty as a card-carrying Doper to impart this news to you. Anyone tried it? I haven't been to the state fair in years. 
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#2
08-08-2009, 10:34 AM
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Wow--my daughter blew her idea! When she was 4 she loved bacon and she loved chocolate and she had this great idea to combine them. So she took the chocolate sauce and poured it on her bacon. She said she liked it but then again she never tried it again. A girl before her time I suppose.
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#3
08-08-2009, 10:44 AM
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Someone gave me some once and it was truly horrid. It tasted like it had been conceived in Satan's anus.
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08-08-2009, 11:01 AM
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There is a commercially produced bacon-chocolate bar on the market. It combines a smoky and sweet flavor, which is not all that different from mole or from barbequed ribs with a sugar-based sauce.
Last edited by Chefguy; 08-08-2009 at 11:04 AM.
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#6
08-08-2009, 11:01 AM
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It's not near as bad as it sounds. Think bacon (or sausage) and syrup at breakfast. It's just another sweet/savory combo. The bacon was crisp, so it must have been cooked on the stick. Deep-fried, I suspect.
Not something I'll seek out, though. Peace, mangeorge, who'll try anything.
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#7
08-08-2009, 11:15 AM
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Oh, mine was just as bad as it sounded. It was just...oh my god, I'm thinking about it. To the porcelain god!
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#8
08-08-2009, 11:20 AM
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So apparently it tastes like shit too.
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#9
08-08-2009, 11:42 AM
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I'm waiting for someone to say "It didn't taste very good to me". But that would require that the person had actually tasted chocolate covered bacon, huh!
And that wonderful person would have to refrain from hyperbole. Ah, Diogenese, lend me your lamp. 
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#10
08-08-2009, 11:55 AM
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I can't speak to what you might get at a fair, but I have had it. It wasn't awful but I was disappointed. Two great tastes separately but together...? More bacon, less chocolate rather than vice-versa would be better I think.
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#11
08-08-2009, 12:35 PM
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I'll be going to the Indiana state fair tonight (first time in over a quarter century!), and have been told that chocolate-covered bacon's available this year. I'm vegetarian, but if I can con my girlfriend or her friend into trying it, I'll report back. (I plan on trying all of the previous veggie-friendly fried treats if I can find them tonight; fried Coke, fried Oreos, fried pizza, etc. I've missed out.)
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08-08-2009, 12:37 PM
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08-08-2009, 01:40 PM
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Jeeze, what's next. Garlic cookies? Chocolate covered oysters?
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08-08-2009, 02:13 PM
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I can envision the ad campaign now as this new taste sensation takes off:
"You got bacon in my chocolate!" "You got chocolate in my bacon!" "Two great tastes that taste great together!" Fin.
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08-08-2009, 02:29 PM
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08-08-2009, 03:48 PM
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08-08-2009, 04:30 PM
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I had the bacon bar a few months back, ugh...gross! When I think bacon and chocolate, I think of a big thick piece of bacon covered in chocolate. Not baco bit sized pieces of bacon in a semi okay chocolate bar. Plus the bacon was rubbery, and...eww just thinking about it.
We even tried to get others in the family visiting at Christmas to help finish the bar by pawning off pieces. No luck.
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#19
08-08-2009, 05:50 PM
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we had some at a family event. the bacon was baked not fried to keep the shape and flatness, then dipped in the chocolate, placed flat on a cookie sheet to dry. almond slivers were sprinkled on it before it dried.
it wasn't too bad, but not something i'd go out of my way to get, or eat if there was something else chocolate around.
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#20
08-08-2009, 06:21 PM
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I've had some from a fancy chocolatier, with good quality dark chocolate. It was pretty damn tasty. As opposed to the bacon chocolate bar I had, which was merely...interesting. All comes down to the quality of the materials and preparation I imagine.
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08-09-2009, 12:12 AM
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08-09-2009, 11:50 AM
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Well, went to the Indiana state fair last night, and my friends and I wandered for a good hour, trying to find the "gross foods" part of the layout. Turns out that all of them were located near the midway. Bacon was everywhere (in living form, even, in the swine pavilion), but the chocolate bacon was at a single vendor.
$4 for three pieces. When I saw the preparation/presentation, I realized that there isn't a single recipe passed around from vendor to vendor; apparently, a given vendor just hears "bacon and chocolate," and figures out their own version. Mentioned above are deep-fried pieces of bacon, baked bacon, bacon on a stick, bacon bits, etc. Here, it was basic pan-fried bacon. The bacon was allowed to cool, then dipped in molten chocolate (the basic candy-maing type one would find in a craft store, nothing special), and then sprinkled with powdered sugar. The bacon wasn't entirely coated, either; one end is left uncoated, as apparently the bacon is held by hand and dunked. It's the bacon's Achille's heel, I suppose. My girlfriend's friend ponied up the cash for an order. The girlfriend tried a single bite... "Eww, no!" Handed back her piece. The friend gingerly tried a piece... not bad, he said. The bacon was a little chewy, and he was disappointed that the bacon was cold, but the sweet/salty combination worked okay. The end pieces, just bacon with a dab of powdered sugar, were not as good; the bacon's coldness hurt the edibility at that part. As entertainment on the midway, the food is successful. Strangers kept coming up... "is that the chocolate-covered bacon?" "Where did you get it?" "Can we watch you take a bite?" Most were mortified by the idea, but found it fascinating to know it was out there, someone was eating it, and was willing to give them a blow-by-blow description. Three pieces was too much-- two pieces was pushing it-- and he ended up passing off the third piece to a young guy, maybe 12 years old, who had come up to watch him eat some candied pig flesh. That kid's lucky day! The friend then spent the rest of the night a little shell-shocked, as though eating it had changed him. After chocolate covered bacon, we seemed to be just a vomitorium and gladiator arena away from the full decadence of Rome. Me, I'm a vegetarian... so I stuck with the fried pizza, fried Oreos, fried cookie dough, and fried Pepsi.
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#25
08-09-2009, 12:23 PM
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Dough is made with Pepsi, and fried. After a little cooling, undiluted Pepsi syrup is injected into the center like a jelly doughnut, then the entire thing is sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar. It wasn't bad, though I'd have left off the sugar sprinkling and let the Pepsi flavor shine; of the treats I had last night it was in the middle; the fried Oreo was the most bland, the fried cookie dough (the dough kept frozen, thickly battered and then fried... the dough thaws and warms up, but does not get cooked itself; it's a gooey, rich treat) the best.
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08-09-2009, 12:35 PM
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Okay, I'm curious. I'll try the fried pepsi. Where can I get it?
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08-09-2009, 12:38 PM
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08-09-2009, 12:59 PM
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Dang!
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Now it's gotten so big that it would be a real hassle to go. Maybe next year I'll try the mass transit method. I dearly do loves my garlic. Forty Garlic Chicken! Yum! Anyway, I think I'l get a Hershey bar and re-try the bacon/chocolat thing. You don't want a quality dark for this, you need the sweetness of the milk chocolat. And the bacon has to be crisp, not chewy. We'll see.
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#29
08-09-2009, 03:12 PM
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Wouldn't it basically be like funnel cake, only made with Pepsi and/or Coke? (Mmmm...funnel cake)
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08-09-2009, 03:15 PM
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08-09-2009, 08:16 PM
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08-09-2009, 09:10 PM
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I took my grand daughters to a donut shop in Portland, Oregon a few weeks ago. They both at a donut that had bacon on the top. They said it tasted good. The donuts had a maple topping instead of chocolate though.
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08-10-2009, 07:45 AM
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08-10-2009, 08:38 AM
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08-10-2009, 03:07 PM
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08-10-2009, 04:25 PM
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I like chocolate. I like bacon (though I don't eat it any more--lacto-ovo-pesca-vegetarian).
The idea of the two in combination also makes me go, "Euuuugh." FWIW, I always hated getting maple syrup on my bacon or sausage at breakfast when I still ate such things, too.
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08-10-2009, 09:02 PM
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I'll get the bottle if someone'll get the fixins.
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08-10-2009, 10:10 PM
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I think the biggest mistake with this one would be too much or too sweet chocolate. I think the bacon would be easily overpowered. Bacon is really a subtle flavor. I think it could really work though I've never had it.
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08-11-2009, 03:12 AM
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I have had just a taste of the brand linked to and I've been craving it ever since. It was delicious! I've looked up recipes on the internet and will try making my own with semi-sweet morsels melted in a double boiler. You have to use really crisp bacon.
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08-11-2009, 03:23 AM
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08-11-2009, 04:58 AM
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08-11-2009, 06:58 AM
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08-11-2009, 07:47 AM
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I tried;
Oscar Meyer "center-cut" bacon, very crisp but not burned + melted Hersey bar.
Not awful at all, better than I remember. I think I'll follow Zoe's idea with semi-sweet chocolat. The Hersey bar was too cloying. This time I'll cut the bacon into bite-size pieces before frying.
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