I make a very tasty garlic jelly. Don’t care for oysters however.
But it’s what Homer Simpson prayed to God for while driving, when two trucks collided and created this heavenly delightful treat!
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.
I gotta ask… HOW on earth do you fry PEPSI???
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.
Okay, I’m curious. I’ll try the fried pepsi. Where can I get it?
Somebody here once posted a recipe for garlic fudge that was surprisingly good. Here’s one hit on garlic cookies.
I’ve never made it to Gilroy for the garlic festival. Something always seems to get in the way, though it’s just a stones throw up the road. When it was still new I actually headed up there but a friend called and we spent the day at her place doing other things.
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.
Wouldn’t it basically be like funnel cake, only made with Pepsi and/or Coke? (Mmmm…funnel cake)
No, it’s the one he calls Lonny but is really named Lanny whose sole job is to hoist Beelzebub’s tail out of the mud at all times so that the Dark One can look theatrical when he’s making a point. And who will one day snap because he gets no regard, no regard at all.
It’s more like a fried biscuit or large doughnut hole.
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.
Maple and (crumbled) bacon actually sounds pretty good. I’m with your daughters on this one. 
Biscuit dough and donut dough are, as Wendy would say, waaay different.
I was referring to the overall shape and consistency of the fried Pepsi (which was referred to on the menu as a “fried ball”) as opposed to the funnel-cake form that Guin has brought up.
I’ve had the Vosges bacon bar, and I really like it. Other opinions were divided, however - only one of my other friends really liked it; the others ranged from “meh” to “yuck.”
Has anyone tried Bakon Vodka?
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.
That Bakon Vodka bloody mary sounds delicious.
I’ll get the bottle if someone’ll get the fixins. 
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.