# ZOMBIE THREADSPOTTING: Bacon Salt **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 19, 2007, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threadspotting-bacon-salt/412456 "2007-07-19T22:58:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threadspotting-bacon-salt/412456/61 "2007-07-20T21:01:57Z")
Bacon Salt! People don’t know it’s not bacon! I wish I could walk to the store and buy some! I’ll have bacon-y dreams till I get mine. Bacon Fries with Ranch Dressing Eggs Sunny Side Up with Bacon Salt Tomato Sandwich with Bacon Flavor :::drool::: Baked Potato salted with bacon-y goodness Ribeye steak grilled to perfection with the subtle hint of bacon! I ordered for Christmas gifts too! Can’t let anyone go without! Everyone must know! Alert the Press! ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threadspotting-bacon-salt/412456/62 "2007-07-20T21:08:47Z")
[QUOTE=Asimovian] I belong. [/QUOTE] Dude, for bringing this to our attention, you should plan to travel the country for the next year, attending Dopefests in every city nationwide, and drinking for free as grateful Dopers refuse to let you pay for your own beverages. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threadspotting-bacon-salt/412456/63 "2007-07-20T21:15:31Z")
[QUOTE=oft wears hats] What about the salt grain size? I imagined it to be coarse, similar to kosher salt, but is it? How well does it simulate the taste of bacon? The attractiveness to me was the prospect of being able to add bacon flavor without actually cooking up bacon, and I was willing to take a flavor hit for the sake of convenience. There’s also the fact that it adds bacon flavor without adding fat. So yeah, how’s the taste stack up to bacon, and what is the consistency of the salt? Also, you’re totally awesome for providing a review for us. 😃 [/QUOTE] I think think the taste is remarkably bacony. I would say it’s slightly less than 100% bacon because there are some other flavors at work, also possibly because I’ve only had the hickory and the pepper flavors. The second and third ingredients aredried onion and dried garlic, so you have a hint of oniony-garlicness (garlicky-onionness?) going on as well. But there’s never any doubt that the core of the experience is bacon, through and through. The consistency is like a coarse seasoned salt, with a range of granule sizes from very small salt grains up to bits of pepper and vegetable bits about the size of what you’d get from a coarse pepper mill. ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threadspotting-bacon-salt/412456/64 "2007-07-20T21:17:15Z")
[QUOTE=Asimovian] You know, umpteen years ago, there was a thread that asked when you felt like you were truly a part of SDMB. Having brought the joys of Bacon Salt to this place, and now receiving confirmation that It Is Good – this is my time, right now. I belong. Who’s up for a Bacon Salt-fest? 😃 [/QUOTE] I fully intend to nominate you for the Nobel Prize for Brand Awareness. It will taste like bacon. ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threadspotting-bacon-salt/412456/65 "2007-07-20T21:19:31Z")
[QUOTE=Asimovian] I may be a Straight Dope member, but I simply don’t have the genius necessary to bring something like this to market. I thank my lucky stars that I’m smart enough to recognize _their_ genius in producing it! I wonder if I can get a referral fee, though. 😃 [/QUOTE] I just checked, no mention of affilliate ads on the site, I was so ready to replace my [mozy.com](http://mozy.com) banner for this. ---
**Author:** ![oft\_wears\_hats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7993a0/32.png) [@oft\_wears\_hats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oft_wears_hats)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threadspotting-bacon-salt/412456/66 "2007-07-20T21:22:07Z")
[QUOTE=Pork Rind] I think think the taste is remarkably bacony. I would say it’s slightly less than 100% bacon because there are some other flavors at work, also possibly because I’ve only had the hickory and the pepper flavors. The second and third ingredients aredried onion and dried garlic, so you have a hint of oniony-garlicness (garlicky-onionness?) going on as well. But there’s never any doubt that the core of the experience is bacon, through and through. The consistency is like a coarse seasoned salt, with a range of granule sizes from very small salt grains up to bits of pepper and vegetable bits about the size of what you’d get from a coarse pepper mill. [/QUOTE] My first child shall be named Asimovian Pork Rind, in honor of two of the greatest people I have ever known.\* \*Pending wife approval. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threadspotting-bacon-salt/412456/67 "2007-07-20T21:32:38Z")
Can we get a Mod in here? I’d like to nominate **Asimovian** for the highest award we can give, for Service Above and Beyond the Call of Dopedom. At least give him a custom title, like “Finder of Bacon-salt.” ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threadspotting-bacon-salt/412456/68 "2007-07-20T21:45:18Z")
[QUOTE=Pork Rind] One word: Awesome. [/QUOTE] Damn, I won’t get there until Sunday. There had better be some left. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threadspotting-bacon-salt/412456/69 "2007-07-20T21:47:23Z")
[QUOTE=amarinth] There had better be some left. [/QUOTE] Hee hee, I’m going tomorrow morning. If I get the last of it, you’ll need to come to trivia night so you can have a tiny, tiny taste. 😛 [QUOTE=silenus] At least give him a custom title, like “Finder of Bacon-salt.” [/QUOTE] I bacon the motion. I mean, I second the bacon. Uh, that is… ah, whatever. bacon ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threadspotting-bacon-salt/412456/70 "2007-07-20T21:52:50Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] At least give him a custom title, like “Finder of Bacon-salt.” [/QUOTE] Third! Bacon fries… sweet Og above… Bacon ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threadspotting-bacon-salt/412456/71 "2007-07-20T22:03:51Z")
My office smells so much like bacon right now that it’s hard to describe. It’s almost, maybe just a little bit, but not quite, too much. ---
**Author:** ![oft\_wears\_hats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7993a0/32.png) [@oft\_wears\_hats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oft_wears_hats)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threadspotting-bacon-salt/412456/72 "2007-07-20T22:06:57Z")
I’m debating whether or not someone should email the BaconSalt folks and notify them of the avalanche of bacon-related excitement they’ve contributed to here on the Dope. Maybe they’ll peruse the thread and use some of the posts as testimonials. Thoughts? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threadspotting-bacon-salt/412456/73 "2007-07-20T22:09:06Z")
Already did it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![oft\_wears\_hats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7993a0/32.png) [@oft\_wears\_hats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oft_wears_hats)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threadspotting-bacon-salt/412456/74 "2007-07-20T22:10:09Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] Already did it. 😃 [/QUOTE] A man after my own heart. Also: bacon. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threadspotting-bacon-salt/412456/75 "2007-07-20T22:10:16Z")
Me want. Now. But shipping to Sweden costs more than the salt itself. I can’t justify that. I think. [sub]Someone help me justify it. Ridiculous rationalizations welcome.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threadspotting-bacon-salt/412456/76 "2007-07-20T22:11:39Z")
[QUOTE=Priceguy] Me want. Now. But shipping to Sweden costs more than the salt itself. I can’t justify that. I think. [sub]Someone help me justify it. Ridiculous rationalizations welcome.[/sub] [/QUOTE] Dude, it’s **bacon**. bacon bacon bacon ---
**Author:** ![oft\_wears\_hats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7993a0/32.png) [@oft\_wears\_hats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oft_wears_hats)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threadspotting-bacon-salt/412456/77 "2007-07-20T22:13:19Z")
[QUOTE=Priceguy] Me want. Now. But shipping to Sweden costs more than the salt itself. I can’t justify that. I think. [sub]Someone help me justify it. Ridiculous rationalizations welcome.[/sub] [/QUOTE] Just order a lot. Give it as gifts! Great as ice-melt for the winter! Sprinkle it from the rooftops! Snort it and feel like you’re on top of the world! …but every time, you need a little more BaconSalt, until you need a BaconSalt just to get up in the morning, and before you know it you’re pawning your wife’s engagement ring just for a BaconSalt, and eventually they find your bacony-smelling corpse curled up in an alley way clutching an empty bottle. So yeah. Buy a lot of BaconSalt. Justin and Dave demand it, for they are our overlords now. And soon shall come a prosperous time, where bacony sodium shall be had by all, wars and famine shall cease, and peace and joy shall be everlasting. bacon ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threadspotting-bacon-salt/412456/78 "2007-07-20T22:21:18Z")
I need this stuff for my chili fries. I can cut at least 200 calories by omitting the bacon and using bacon salt! (Yes I put bacon on _everything_). I think this is the best invention since the Pill. ---
**Author:** ![Dunawake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dunawake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunawake)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threadspotting-bacon-salt/412456/79 "2007-07-20T22:24:24Z")
Concentrating at work has become…difficult. bacon bacon ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threadspotting-bacon-salt/412456/80 "2007-07-20T22:24:49Z")
[QUOTE=Queen Bruin] I need this stuff for my chili fries. I can cut at least 200 calories by omitting the bacon and using bacon salt! (Yes I put bacon on _everything_). I think this is the best invention since the Pill. [/QUOTE] Note to self: Develop Bacon Birth Control. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threadspotting-bacon-salt/412456.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threadspotting-bacon-salt/412456.md?page=5)