All right, Materialistas, this is the task I put before you, and it is the most important thing you can ever do in your entire lifetimes, including making babies: find me this chocolate covered bacon.
But first, a little context. I have been obsessed with making chocolate covered bacon for years. Well, maybe year, but it’s certainly something I’ve brought up in numerous conversations, thought about far too much, and actually attempted once:
What you see above is a plate of chocolate covered bacon I made over Christmas last year, the result of cooking bacon, then covering it in Magic Shell. My tragic flaw, I think, is that I wanted the bacon to be hot. Hot bacon, plus warm magic shell, equals goopy, gross bacon. For those of you interested, you can read a full wrap-up of the experiment here.
I then tried the Mo’s Bacon Bar, from Vosges. The problem with this is that it was tiny bacon bits in chocolate. So you got a little salty crunch, and it’s certainly tasty, but it’s not chocolate covered bacon, it’s chocolate with some bacon in it. You can get the bar here, for $7.50. I recommend it, though it won’t be for everyone.
However, after these two failed experiments, I had given up hope of ever having a crispity, chocolatey, bacony treat… Until my friend Cory sent me the picture up top, from Seattle.
Here’s the problem… The picture is posted with no info at all, other than what you see there. Using the clues in context, I know that it is called “…rini’s Famous Choc. Covered Bacon Bar,” but an internet search brings up nothing. Neither does e-mailing the picture’s discover/taker, Dan Savage. So that leaves it all up to you guys:
Fulfill my life long dream, and please, find me that chocolate covered bacon!
And, in return, as long as I can order this through the mail, or have a friend in Seattle pick it up, I will buy two pounds of Chocolate Covered Bacon: one for me, and one for the person who finds out how to buy it.
Further Contest Rules:
- If you live near the place where they sell the bacon, I'm happy to sub out buying you the bacon for something equally ridiculous, of equal value.
- If you are the proprieter of the store that sells the bacon, you are awesome, but also not eligible.
