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Bacon Flavored Candy Canes

The Urban Grocer Contributor

By The Urban Grocer in New Products on Thursday 15 December 2011

Some people like their bacon black and crispy. Others like it a gently seared pinkish brown. Well, we’re here to tell you that there’s a brand new way to enjoy your favorite piggy treat: In red and white stripes. And you don’t chew it, you lick it. That’s right, folks. We’re talking about bacon-flavored candy canes, and given that this year’s bacon craze doesn’t seem anywhere close to dying down, we’re betting that these babies are going to be selling hot and fast this holiday season. Move over mint, pork is so 2011.

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Baconlube: now you can be a real bacon lover

Zolton Contributor

By Zolton in New Products on Friday 9 December 2011

Bacon Alarm Clocks; Bacon Soap; Bacon in the air. What’s left? Why, Baconlube, of course. That’s right. You can enhance your foreplay with the ‘world’s first bacon-flavored personal lubricant and massage oil’. What began as an April Fool’s joke has, by popular demand, become a real product. And all for the sake of Keeping It [...]

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Desktop Microwave Oven by Steve Gates

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By Michelle Wilding in New Products on Tuesday 6 December 2011

Last week brought us the Wake N’ Bacon, and now we’re being spoilt with even more convenience: the desktop microwave oven. It’s the ultimate time-saver and workspace companion. Designed by Steve Gates, this appliance is built to suit a specific line of heat and eat meals that come pre-packaged with RFID tags. It’s fully operational [...]

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Alarm clock wakes you to the smell of cooking bacon

Zolton Contributor

By Zolton in New Products on Tuesday 29 November 2011

Is this the greatest invention since sliced bread? Well, for meat eaters, perhaps. The Wake N’ Bacon is an alarm clock that ‘wakes you up with the smell of cooking bacon instead of a buzzer’. Yes, that’s right: ‘The aroma wakes you up, then you can open the oven component and eat the bacon itself’. Brilliant! Now, if it could only perculate a pot of coffee too.

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Bastille’s Overjoyed video: inspired by Twin Peaks

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By Dan Smith from Bastille in New Music on Thursday 17 November 2011

We made our first proper music video a few weeks ago. It is for a song from our new EP called Overjoyed and I had a great time helping out on set. I made a lot of tea and bacon sandwiches and helped charge camera batteries. Very exciting stuff. Our EP is called Laura Palmer, [...]

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Dark, beautiful street art by Spanish artist Aryz

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By Gerry Mak in New Art on Thursday 10 November 2011

Sir Francis Bacon once said: ‘There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion’, and the work of Spanish street artist Aryz seems to embody this quote perfectly. His paintings and murals are stunningly ethereal, accessible, and beautiful, but also tinged heavily with a dark and unsettling surrealism.

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Exotic cupcakes by Arthur and Aleksandra

Zolton Contributor

By Zolton in New Trends on Thursday 11 August 2011

These surreal new cupcake-concoctions from the laboratory of cake artisans Arthur and Aleksandra have us licking our lips, and hammering our credit cards, all at the same time. They’re almost too tasty, too stylish to eat. Almost!

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Bacon Wrapped Eggs

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By Brynn Metheney in New Food and Packaging on Friday 29 July 2011

Food Porn. This beautifully shot and designed ‘how to’ video teaches you how to make bacon wrapped eggs and is sure to entice just about anyone with its bacony goodness. Check out more from the creators, Recipe Cards.

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Supermarket pumps out bacon smell to boost food sales

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By Zolton in New Trends on Monday 18 July 2011

What will they stink of next? A chain of supermarkets in Brooklyn and Staten Island have began a radical experiment to pump the aromas of Lindt Chocolate and Smoky Bacon, among other flavours, into the air as a way to encourage mouth buds to start watering. And it seems to be working. Fruit sales are [...]

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Bacon Soap

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By The Urban Grocer in New Products on Thursday 14 July 2011

Bacon candy was one thing. Bacon cologne was pushing it. And now there is this: bacon soap. Yup, from ThinkGeek comes this new soap that is not only marbled to look like real bacon but made to smell like it too. Just like that first whiff of salty, greasy bacon cooking in the morning, lathering [...]

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The Ultimate Dog Tease

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By Jeff Faerber in Video on Thursday 16 June 2011

A friend showed me this and now it is a staple of inside jokes between myself and a half-dozen friends. The bare-naked want of this dog for his bacon is a metaphor for this cruel world’s naked soul, starved for oil, drugs, and sex. In the metaphor, to my girlfriend’s telling, she is the bacon.

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The Hungover Cookbook

The Urban Grocer Contributor

By The Urban Grocer in New Food and Packaging on Monday 13 June 2011

Everybody seems to have their own remedy for it: aspirin, coffee, soda water, hair of the dog. But now a man named Milton Crawford (a Brit, naturally) has written an actual manual for how to get rid of that morning-after ick: The Hungover Cookbook.

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Bringing jockeys’ attire into the 21st century

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By Miss Cakehead in New Fashion on Tuesday 17 May 2011

A UK organization, Racing for Change, are on a mission to bring jockeys’ attire into the 21st century. Working with students at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, they have unwritten 250 years of tradition and gone back to the drawing board with silks featuring everything from bacon, bird droppings and even fruit [...]

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Lady Gaga Meat Dress by Pungo Pungo

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By Lamia Larkin in New Fashion on Saturday 30 April 2011

Be more than a piece of meat in Pungo Pungo’s Meat Dress, made out of painted fabric. Enjoy the excitement and head turning looks you’ll get while wearing this dress, without the fragrant sent of raw bacon on your body. This dress works wonders for everything from prom to your next PETA meeting!

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American Grilled Cheese Kitchen

The Urban Grocer Contributor

By The Urban Grocer in New Food and Packaging on Monday 25 April 2011

There are few things more perfectly satisfying than a classic grilled cheese sandwich. But then again, I suppose it couldn’t hurt to add a few more toppings. If you agree, than the American Grilled Cheese Kitchen in San Francisco is your mecca.

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