# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threadspotting-bacon-salt/412456/121 "2007-07-21T13:21:36Z")
[QUOTE=devilsknew] I hate to be a party pooper, but you can make this product in your home. Buy a bottle of Imitation bacon bits (3ozs.–made with soy flour-- entirely kosher and vegetarian.)… Blend in a coffeee grinder or blender with about ten ounces of plain (not iodized) Morton Kosher Rock Salt and 1 1/2 tablespoons of sugar. Add pepper if you’d like. Grind to desired coarseness. [/QUOTE] But… we want something that tastes like **bacon** , not fake-ass soy nuggets with smoke flavor added. As a vegetarian who still remembers (and cooks for aforementioned omnivorous husband) bacon, I’ve tried many veg-approved “fake-on” bits and they aren’t bacony goodness. Edit: WRT the salt, I’m hoping they turn out a potassium chloride version if we make them popular enough. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threadspotting-bacon-salt/412456/122 "2007-07-21T14:59:46Z")
Once my 3-pack gets here, I’m tempted to try adding Bacon Salt to Bacon itself. But I’m afraid of opening some kind of earth-devouring bacony (mmmm) wormhole. Any physicists here with this sort of space-swine insight? I drunkenly (and stupidly, I know) attempted this last week after running out of vodka and bloody mary mix to add celery salt to celery that intoxicated night… thankfully we’re all still here. But I fear Bacon is MUCH more powerful. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threadspotting-bacon-salt/412456/123 "2007-07-21T15:10:10Z")
I say that we follow the instructions [here](http://www.instructables.com/id/EBLJCRZF2FRVHQ5), make **Asimovian** a bacon cap and declare him Bacon Pope! Bacon. The candy bar of meat. Jack. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threadspotting-bacon-salt/412456/124 "2007-07-21T15:45:59Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan] I say that we follow the instructions [here](http://www.instructables.com/id/EBLJCRZF2FRVHQ5), make **Asimovian** a bacon cap and declare him Bacon Pope! Bacon. The candy bar of meat. Jack. [/QUOTE] “Bacon Pope.” Yeah, I kinda like the sound of that. My wife keeps complaining to me that it still just says “Member” under my name when there clearly needs to be some kind of bacony title now. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threadspotting-bacon-salt/412456/125 "2007-07-21T15:53:24Z")
Oh, hey, and shouldn’t _this_ thread, above all others, be a “sticky”? (Ooooh, sticky bacon! Like maybe bacon gum! [Homer] Bacon gum! Auuuuuurgh!!! [/Homer]) ---
**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 21, 2007, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threadspotting-bacon-salt/412456/126 "2007-07-21T15:56:46Z")
[QUOTE=Asimovian] “Bacon Pope.” Yeah, I kinda like the sound of that. My wife keeps complaining to me that it still just says “Member” under my name when there clearly needs to be some kind of bacony title now. [/QUOTE] What do you propose for your regnal name? Pope Porky I? ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threadspotting-bacon-salt/412456/127 "2007-07-21T16:28:26Z")
[QUOTE=Ferret Herder] But… we want something that tastes like **bacon** , not fake-ass soy nuggets with smoke flavor added. As a vegetarian who still remembers (and cooks for aforementioned omnivorous husband) bacon, I’ve tried many veg-approved “fake-on” bits and they aren’t bacony goodness. [/QUOTE] What the hell do you think is in this so called Bacon Salt, Einstein? Have you tried Bacon Salt? It’s kosher and vegetarian, there ain’t a shred of real bacon in there, and very likely the ingredients are nothing more than fake ass soy with smoke flavor added. In fact they probably use the exact same artificial flavors in the same ratios as bacon bits. It’s surely got hydrolized soy and smoke flavoring…you can take that to the bank. ---
**Author:** ![supervenusfreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@supervenusfreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supervenusfreak)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threadspotting-bacon-salt/412456/128 "2007-07-21T16:45:24Z")
[QUOTE=devilsknew] What the hell do you think is in this so called Bacon Salt, Einstein? Have you tried Bacon Salt? It’s kosher and vegetarian, there ain’t a shred of real bacon in there, and very likely the ingredients are nothing more than fake ass soy with smoke flavor added. In fact they probably use the exact same artificial flavors in the same ratios as bacon bits. It’s surely got hydrolized soy and smoke flavoring…you can take that to the bank. [/QUOTE] LOL. You are such a bubble burster! 😃 I ordered it anyway. I also purchased the New Harry Potter book for my brother this morning. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threadspotting-bacon-salt/412456/129 "2007-07-21T17:42:27Z")
_weeps_ I’m on a low-salt diet. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threadspotting-bacon-salt/412456/130 "2007-07-21T17:44:57Z")
[QUOTE=devilsknew] What the hell do you think is in this so called Bacon Salt, Einstein? Have you tried Bacon Salt? It’s kosher and vegetarian, there ain’t a shred of real bacon in there, and very likely the ingredients are nothing more than fake ass soy with smoke flavor added. In fact they probably use the exact same artificial flavors in the same ratios as bacon bits. It’s surely got hydrolized soy and smoke flavoring…you can take that to the bank. [/QUOTE] Early reviews by a SDMBer say this **tastes like bacon**. As I said in the post I quoted, I’ve tried a ton of fake-bacon bits (as has my still-bacon-eating husband) and those **don’t taste like bacon**. Maybe the soy stuff interferes with the flavor, I dunno, but if so that still means we can’t stick them in a blender and make our own - or at least, I can’t cause I think it tastes bleah. So either a poster named **Pork Rind** , of all things, has forgotten what bacon tastes like, or we’ve got something on our hands that doesn’t taste like the crap they stick in bottles and proclaim to be “bacon bits.” And knock it off with the “Einstein” comments, ok? ---
**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 21, 2007, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threadspotting-bacon-salt/412456/131 "2007-07-21T17:51:00Z")
Besides, what would Einstein know from bacon? He kept kosher. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threadspotting-bacon-salt/412456/132 "2007-07-21T18:56:37Z")
[QUOTE=Leaffan] I don’t get the excitement, personally. 😕 You want all of your food to taste like bacon? [/QUOTE] Well DUH! Everything is better with bacon on it. Just ask my dog. ETA: three pack on the way. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threadspotting-bacon-salt/412456/133 "2007-07-21T20:31:35Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] Besides, what would Einstein know from bacon? He kept kosher. 😃 [/QUOTE] But with Bacon Salt he could have had _both kosher **and** bacon!_ I bet he’d have figured out his Grand Unification Theory if Bacon Salt had been around when he was alive! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threadspotting-bacon-salt/412456/134 "2007-07-21T20:53:16Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan] But with Bacon Salt he could have had _both kosher **and** bacon!_ I bet he’d have figured out his Grand Unification Theory if Bacon Salt had been around when he was alive! 😃 [/QUOTE] E = NaCl\*Bacon^2 ---
**Author:** ![A.R.Cane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@A.R.Cane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A.R.Cane)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threadspotting-bacon-salt/412456/135 "2007-07-21T21:01:43Z")
With all the posters hanging their tongues out in anticipation of their Bacon Salt orders, I’m surprised no one’s included this site: [http://www.beggin.com/GetPage.aspx?D=11259937&T=3972538](http://www.beggin.com/GetPage.aspx?D=11259937&T=3972538) ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threadspotting-bacon-salt/412456/136 "2007-07-21T22:31:37Z")
How about [organic vegan bacon bits](http://store.nexternal.com/shared/StoreFront/default.asp?CS=vegane&BusType=BtoC&Count1=315258204&Count2=232398629&ProductID=1217&Target=products.asp) ? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2007, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threadspotting-bacon-salt/412456/137 "2007-07-21T23:02:23Z")
What exactly is **in** this stuff? If it’s “kosher” and “vegetarian,” how do they simulate the flavor of bacon? ---
**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 22, 2007, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threadspotting-bacon-salt/412456/138 "2007-07-22T01:39:59Z")
The ingredients list is lengthy, to be sure. But the Bacon Salt has been acquired, and a full report will follow. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2007, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threadspotting-bacon-salt/412456/139 "2007-07-22T02:06:29Z")
For those who have the Bacon Salt already: What’s the sodium content per serving? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2007, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threadspotting-bacon-salt/412456/140 "2007-07-22T02:14:44Z")
For those of us on “lower-sodium” diets, here’s the math: Regular iodized salt: 1 gram = 393mg sodium Morton Lite Salt: 1 gram = 207mg sodium Bacon Salt: Original: 1 gram = 150mg sodium Peppered: 1 gram = 135mg sodium Hickory: 1 gram = 150mg sodium NO CALORIES, NO FAT, NO CARBS, NO SUGAR. _ **IT’S BACON. AND IT’S GOOD FOR YOU!!!** _ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threadspotting-bacon-salt/412456.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zombie-threadspotting-bacon-salt/412456.md?page=8)