# Smoked bacon + smoked salt + milk chocolate = Bacon candy bar **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** soda-softdrinks\ **Created:** [October 19, 2007, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smoked-bacon-smoked-salt-milk-chocolate-bacon-candy-bar/423277 "2007-10-19T06:37:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smoked-bacon-smoked-salt-milk-chocolate-bacon-candy-bar/423277/1 "2007-10-19T06:37:07Z")
[Behold the bacon candy bar](http://www.vosgeschocolate.com/product/bacon_exotic_candy_bar/exotic_candy_bars): > [@](#): > > Deep milk chocolate coats your mouth and leads to the crunch of smoked bacon pieces. Surprise your mouth with the smoked salt and sweet milk chocolate combination. I’m speechless. Bacon and salt and milk chocolate all in my mouth at once. I don’t know how to even imagine that. > [@](#): > > I started playing with this combination at the tender age of six while eating chocolate chip pancakes drenched in maple syrup. [snip] Just a bite of the bacon was too salty and yearned for the sweet kiss of chocolate syrup. In retrospect, perhaps this was a turning point, for on that plate something magical happened: the beginnings of a combination so ethereal and delicious that it would haunt my thoughts until I found the medium to express it–chocolate. If Betty Crocker ran the Penthouse Forum, this would _still_ be odd beyond belief. ---
**Author:** ![Trisha\_McMillan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@Trisha\_McMillan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trisha_McMillan)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smoked-bacon-smoked-salt-milk-chocolate-bacon-candy-bar/423277/2 "2007-10-19T10:57:21Z")
> [@](#): > > Beside my chocolate-laden cakes laid three strips of fried bacon, just barely touching a sweet pool of maple syrup. God, it’s like really bad poetry. And I mean really _baaad_. Except it needs to be more, \*Beside my chocolate-laden cakes laid three strips of fried bacon, just barely touching a sweet pool of maple syrup. \* As for the product itself. Agog. I am just agog, and slightly queasy. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smoked-bacon-smoked-salt-milk-chocolate-bacon-candy-bar/423277/3 "2007-10-19T11:04:42Z")
I’m down with that. Salt + chocolate is great, and who doesn’t like bacon. Bet they don’t deliver to the UK though. Might have to make my own. Using bacon salt. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smoked-bacon-smoked-salt-milk-chocolate-bacon-candy-bar/423277/4 "2007-10-19T14:41:05Z")
You realize this is why Rome fell. ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smoked-bacon-smoked-salt-milk-chocolate-bacon-candy-bar/423277/5 "2007-10-19T15:19:34Z")
I tried a dark chocolate bacon bar at Whole Foods a few weeks ago. It wasn’t awful, but nothing I would buy, or even choose among various offered chocolates. Salt+chocolate=good, I agree. Give me some Sno-Caps with my popcorn at the movies, please! Chocolate with crunchy bits is also good - just ask Nestle. The problem is chocolate with smoky flavor doesn’t blend well, at least to my palate. It was just odd, and the flavors refused to blend coherently, kind of like the time I made garlic-scented chocolate chip cookies by putting hot cookies on a wooden cutting board. You’d taste one flavor, then the other, but your brain refused to put them together, and it wasn’t a pleasant experience. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smoked-bacon-smoked-salt-milk-chocolate-bacon-candy-bar/423277/6 "2007-10-19T16:23:46Z")
[QUOTE=Trisha McMillan] God, it’s like really bad poetry. And I mean really _baaad_. [/QUOTE] _Do you like bacon, Cover it with chocolate, Heaven awaits you._ ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smoked-bacon-smoked-salt-milk-chocolate-bacon-candy-bar/423277/7 "2007-10-19T19:17:00Z")
[QUOTE=Unauthorized Cinnamon] The problem is chocolate with smoky flavor doesn’t blend well, at least to my palate. [/QUOTE] My chilli has chocolate and hickory smoke flavoring in. Not too shabby, but then the dominant flavor isn’t chocolate. ---
**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:** [October 19, 2007, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smoked-bacon-smoked-salt-milk-chocolate-bacon-candy-bar/423277/8 "2007-10-19T19:18:27Z")
[QUOTE=Derleth] I’m speechless. [/QUOTE] You’re also [late](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=435661&highlight=bacon+chocolate). 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Dave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/46a35a/32.png) [@Great\_Dave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Dave)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smoked-bacon-smoked-salt-milk-chocolate-bacon-candy-bar/423277/9 "2007-10-19T20:17:28Z")
Thanks, Lute. I was just coming in here to do the same thing. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smoked-bacon-smoked-salt-milk-chocolate-bacon-candy-bar/423277/10 "2007-10-19T20:28:16Z")
I lurve Vosges. I made a special trip the last time I was in Vegas to stop by one of their stores. And I, my friends, had a Bacon Truffle, and it was Good. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smoked-bacon-smoked-salt-milk-chocolate-bacon-candy-bar/423277/11 "2007-10-19T20:30:02Z")
[QUOTE=Unauthorized Cinnamon] You’d taste one flavor, then the other, but your brain refused to put them together, and it wasn’t a pleasant experience. [/QUOTE] Kinda like when you buy a blueberry bagel that’s been sitting in a bin next to the onion & garlic bagels? (we need a Mr Yuk smiley)