Remember Bacon Thins?

Cafe Society
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The organization I work for has a lot of Muslim clients, and this morning my office mates and I decided that the middle of Ramadan was the perfect time to discuss bacon.*

A little bit of googling produced several places commiserating about the great loss; a few sites that indicate certain dollar stores might carry bad knockoffs; and no recipes. My workplace always relies on me to find stuff (because I’m a dweeb) and I’m about to lose my street cred. Does anyone have a source? Better yet…with bacon salt on the market these days, does anyone have a recipe? Any culinary types have an idea of how to create the buttery, bacony goodness? Nabisco really missed the boat on this one given the recent bacon meme.

Help me. If I can whip up a batch of homemade bacon thins next weekend I’d be able to maintain my “Ask chique, she’ll find out” rep.
*You really had to be there…

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Try spraying Club crackers, or any plain buttery cracker, with Chef David Burke’s Smokey Bacon spray. Warm in the oven for ten minutes at 200 F. Gives the thin a run for it’s money.

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I just sent this message to NabsicoWorld (who comes up with this marketing bullshit, anyhow? The logo should be in that Haloween green fake-blood-dripping font, don’t you think?):

Probably not going to help, is it.

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I don’t feel your pain so much, because Chicken In A Biskit continues to be available, but having just last week lost the good fight to find Nissin Choice Ramen, I support this effort. Good luck and bacon to you.

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Hmmm, interesting. Never heard of the stuff before. Have you actually tried this? More importantly: were you a Bacon Thin connoisseur, or was this a 1:30a “I’m drunk and hungry. Hey, let’s try this!” experiment? But, more importantly (she says after googling around), is FlavorSpray still in business? It appears they are not, so your suggestion was perhaps a big tease. :frowning:

Oh, don’t worry, Chicken in a Biskit was the next item of conversation, but it ain’t bacon, y’know?

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Sounds alot like Bacon Dippers, which are definitely not discontinued
http://www.canadaonly.ca/canadaonly.ca/market/namerica/crackers/index.html

(about halfway down the page)

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Ooo - I miss Chip-in-Dip. Or was it Dip-in-Chip? Possibly also by Nabisco.

I also loved Bacon Thins, and I was a kid in the 70s and 80s, so it wasn’t just a drunken snack. Yum.

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Those stinking bastards. BASTARDS. Guess who owns both Christie’s Bacon Dippers and Nabisco Bacon Thins. Go on, guess!

Fuckers. The UK business press is all abuzz about Kraft putting in a bid for Cadbury. Let this be a warning to you all!

Slow day at work, can you tell?

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Yup - it was Nabisco, and they are definitely gone.
Thus spake NabiscoWorld.

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No kidding. Hadn’t noticed.

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No help here, but I absolutely remember them. Bacon thins with Easy Cheese were one of my go-to horrible snack foods when I was a kid and my parents were out of the house.

I didn’t even LIKE the combination – hideous combination of salt, fat, and artificial flavors. But it just ALWAYS sounded like a brilliant idea, past experience be damned.