# Bacon Salt Inventors interviewed on NPR
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-salt-inventors-interviewed-on-npr/430646
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [December 20, 2007, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-salt-inventors-interviewed-on-npr/430646 "2007-12-20T00:03:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2007, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-salt-inventors-interviewed-on-npr/430646/1 "2007-12-20T00:03:50Z")
On today’s [The Story, with Dick Gordon](http://www.thestory.org/) , the inventors of that SD favorite, Bacon Salt, were interviewed. It was a cool story how Dave Lefkow and Justin Esch developed it, used the internet to get word of mouth orders, and how the Bacon Salt Craze took off. They sounded like great guys, too.
If you’re in WUNC listening area, it airs again tonight at 8:00, otherwise, you can listen on The Story webpage.
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### Author:  [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2007, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-salt-inventors-interviewed-on-npr/430646/2 "2007-12-20T00:57:55Z")
I’d love to hear a shout out to the Dope, it’s the only food additive I’ve purchased online.
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### Author:  [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2007, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-salt-inventors-interviewed-on-npr/430646/3 "2007-12-20T01:13:47Z")
I heard it being promo-ed and wanted to listen, but I just missed it.
Rats.
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### Author:  [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2007, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-salt-inventors-interviewed-on-npr/430646/4 "2007-12-20T01:27:47Z")
Rats with BS might be tasty.
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### Author:  [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2007, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-salt-inventors-interviewed-on-npr/430646/5 "2007-12-20T08:42:32Z")
Because of the Dope, I bought some.
Then bought some more for stocking stuffers.
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### Author:  [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2007, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-salt-inventors-interviewed-on-npr/430646/6 "2007-12-20T08:45:58Z")
Bacon Salt has been around for years- you can buy it in the supermarket here. Why are people on the boards acting like it’s just appeared out of nowhere in the last couple of weeks?
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### Author:  [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2007, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-salt-inventors-interviewed-on-npr/430646/7 "2007-12-20T09:52:09Z")
> [@Justin & Dave at baconsalt.com](#):
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> Up until several months ago, we worked together in a little technology company.
One can assume it wasn’t a _food_ technology company.
The old story: savvy promoters working the netz with a(n almost incidental) fun idea. Could’ve been **Sqreengee** ™, the squeegee for your flat panel tv. Or **Football Feedbag** ™, the chest-mounted snack module in fun team colors.
Bacon Salt. I thought the flavor of bacon basically _was_ salt, so this stuff is either a natural or too much of a good thing.
**Sqreengee** ™ and **Football Feedbag** ™ are trademarks of **Beware of Doug New Media Ventures LLC**. Neener neener.
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### Author:  [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2007, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-salt-inventors-interviewed-on-npr/430646/8 "2007-12-20T11:39:54Z")
[QUOTE=Martini Enfield]
Bacon Salt has been around for years- you can buy it in the supermarket here. Why are people on the boards acting like it’s just appeared out of nowhere in the last couple of weeks?
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Because [Bacon Salt](http://www.baconsalt.com/) made by J&D’s was created and promoted starting in 2007. I’ve never seen another brand of it in the US. Plus I suspect those other brands aren’t both kosher and vegetarian.
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### Author:  [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2007, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-salt-inventors-interviewed-on-npr/430646/9 "2007-12-20T13:57:38Z")
[QUOTE=Ferret Herder]
Because [Bacon Salt](http://www.baconsalt.com/) made by J&D’s was created and promoted starting in 2007. I’ve never seen another brand of it in the US. Plus I suspect those other brands aren’t both kosher and vegetarian.
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Right. But my point is that Bacon Salt- ie, Bacon Flavoured Salt- is not a “New Invention”, in that it’s been available in supermarkets here in Australia for years.
I’m not sure what constitutes Kosher, but I’m fairly sure the stuff here is vegetarian.
So yeah, it amuses me that there’s this big craze taking hold in the US for something that’s actually been around for ages but a couple of guys in the US are trying to claim they invented. Interesting stuff indeed. Still, as long as you’re all happy…
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### Author:  [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2007, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-salt-inventors-interviewed-on-npr/430646/10 "2007-12-20T20:29:33Z")
Every time Bacon Salt comes up here, I wonder if I’m the only one who thinks it sounds wholly unappealing.
No, not everything should taste like bacon.
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### Author:  [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2007, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-salt-inventors-interviewed-on-npr/430646/11 "2007-12-20T20:31:59Z")
I wouldn’t call it a craze taking hold in the US. It occasionally gets mentioned in articles having to do with word-of-mouth advertising. There was a recent Wall Street Journal article which mentioned it, among lots of other things.
Everyone I’ve mentioned it to in RL has shown as much interest in it as you’d expect in a new seasoning salt, i.e. almost none. I think Doritos generates more excitement over their latest flavors.
As for it being available in Australia for years who cares really? Coffee’s been around a long time but Starbuck’s “rediscovered” it and made a fortune.
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2007, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-salt-inventors-interviewed-on-npr/430646/12 "2007-12-20T22:13:50Z")
[QUOTE=Silver Fire]
No, not everything should taste like bacon.
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Even if I didn’t know already, that statement would be all I needed to believe you are not a guy. 😉
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### Author:  [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2007, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-salt-inventors-interviewed-on-npr/430646/13 "2007-12-20T22:16:57Z")
This is not the first time they have been on NPR, **Dave Lefkow** on the Faith Middleton Show a few months ago.
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### Author:  [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2007, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-salt-inventors-interviewed-on-npr/430646/14 "2007-12-20T22:18:31Z")
So if I bought bacon bits and ground them finer than they usually come, how different from Bacon Salt would that taste?
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### Author:  [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2007, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-salt-inventors-interviewed-on-npr/430646/15 "2007-12-20T22:38:04Z")
[QUOTE=CarnalK]
So if I bought bacon bits and ground them finer than they usually come, how different from Bacon Salt would that taste?
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Almost not at all. My girlfriend belongs to the Tastfully Simple cult, and they sell a dip mix called Bacon Bacon that if put in a pepper grinder makes…bacon salt.
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### Author:  [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2007, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-salt-inventors-interviewed-on-npr/430646/16 "2007-12-21T01:51:59Z")
[QUOTE=levdraken]
Coffee’s been around a long time but Starbuck’s “rediscovered” it and made a fortune.
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By this statement alone, I am not sure what side you are on.