# Chocolate Covered Bacon **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 8, 2009, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-covered-bacon/505742 "2009-08-08T15:32:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2009, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-covered-bacon/505742/1 "2009-08-08T15:32:31Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Hakuna\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hakuna\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hakuna_Matata)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2009, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-covered-bacon/505742/2 "2009-08-08T15:34:32Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2009, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-covered-bacon/505742/3 "2009-08-08T15:44:52Z")
Someone gave me some once and it was truly horrid. It tasted like it had been conceived in Satan’s anus. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2009, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-covered-bacon/505742/4 "2009-08-08T15:50:41Z")
Sounds disgusting. I love chocolate, and before i became vegetarian i loved bacon, but that combination sounds just too fucking awful for words. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2009, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-covered-bacon/505742/5 "2009-08-08T16:01:01Z")
There is a commercially produced [bacon-chocolate bar](http://www.wishingfish.com/710557.html)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. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2009, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-covered-bacon/505742/6 "2009-08-08T16:01:25Z")
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._ ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2009, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-covered-bacon/505742/7 "2009-08-08T16:15:14Z")
Oh, mine was just as bad as it sounded. It was just…oh my god, I’m thinking about it. To the porcelain god! ---
**Author:** ![EpicNonsense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c37758/32.png) [@EpicNonsense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EpicNonsense)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2009, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-covered-bacon/505742/8 "2009-08-08T16:20:23Z")
So apparently it tastes like shit too. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2009, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-covered-bacon/505742/9 "2009-08-08T16:42:08Z")
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. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2009, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-covered-bacon/505742/10 "2009-08-08T16:55:51Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2009, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-covered-bacon/505742/11 "2009-08-08T17:35:30Z")
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.) ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2009, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-covered-bacon/505742/12 "2009-08-08T17:37:14Z")
> [@mangeorge](#): > > 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. > 😉 All right. It only tasted like it had been concocted in the anus of one of Satan’s lesser minions. Are you happy? ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2009, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-covered-bacon/505742/13 "2009-08-08T18:37:29Z")
I have had it (from a candy shop, not on a stick) and I thought it was pretty darn good. ---
**Author:** ![KlondikeGeoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@KlondikeGeoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KlondikeGeoff)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2009, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-covered-bacon/505742/14 "2009-08-08T18:40:12Z")
Jeeze, what’s next. Garlic cookies? Chocolate covered oysters? ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2009, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-covered-bacon/505742/15 "2009-08-08T19:13:51Z")
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._ ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2009, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-covered-bacon/505742/16 "2009-08-08T19:29:54Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > There is a commercially produced [bacon-chocolate bar](http://www.wishingfish.com/710557.html)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. I make a chocolate barbecue sauce on occasion. ---
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2009, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-covered-bacon/505742/17 "2009-08-08T20:48:15Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > All right. It only tasted like it had been concocted in the anus of one of Satan’s lesser minions. Are you happy? Depends. Did Beelzebub know these minions bibical sense? Anally, that is. ---
**Author:** ![lunar\_elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lunar\_elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lunar_elf)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2009, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-covered-bacon/505742/18 "2009-08-08T21:30:07Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2009, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-covered-bacon/505742/19 "2009-08-08T22:50:36Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2009, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-covered-bacon/505742/20 "2009-08-08T23:21:54Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chocolate-covered-bacon/505742.md?page=2)