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October 29, 2008

Baconnaise and other interesting links

Two alert readers, SusanWSNJ and Baltofoodie, sent me this wonderful link to Baconnaise, mayonnaise made with bacon fat. Gak.

While I'm linking to things, I forgot to link Sunday to Laura Vozzella's fun column on being offered your choice of black or white napkins at fancy restaurants so you won't get the wrong lint on your clothes. Here it is.

Robert of Cross Keys asked me to link to his wife's new restaurant blog. I plan to add it to the blogroll, but it ties up the site forever to rebuild it, which is something I'm not prepared to do this afternoon when things are funky enough as is. What's with this answering questions in comments before they are asked? Anyway, you can read her blog here.

Posted by Elizabeth Large at 4:18 PM | | Comments (17)
        

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Am I correct in assuming that "blogroll" is a pun on logrolling?

EL wrote What's with this answering questions in comments before they are asked? For a moment there I thought OMG had tapped into my brain waves. A scary thought indeed!

hmmm....Baconnaise. I might just have to try some. Then again, after I read the ingredients and nutrition info, I will probably put down the jar and slowly back away.

I love the idea of baconaise!

I want the hand tie dyed napkins, colour co-ordinated to match the dog and cat fur on whatever I'm wearing.

I find it amusing that Baconnaise is kosher. I guess that answers the question about the bacon flavor: it can't be natural, only artificial.
I couldn't find any nutritional information on it. They must be afraid to tell us...

Lissa, I too own a fashionable collection of dog/cat fur clothing. My cat is blonde so there goes all the dark clothes and my GFs dog is black so there goes all the whites. We own many of those sticky rolling things but I've been at work in clothes that came right out of the dry cleaners bag and found animal fur on me!

Lissa and Joyce,

thanks so much for the laughs! I am laughing out loud at the dog/cat fur clothing!

Back in the early Food Network days when the programs actually showed you techniques and how to make things, someone (Emeril I think) made mayo. It's one egg emulsified with oil using one of those stick mixer things. So, I hypothesize that using an egg and bacon fat for your fat (or a portion of your fat) one could make bacon mayonaise. The only problem is it would have to be room temp so it wouldn't cook the egg.

Susan WSNAJ -- Baconnaise is made by the same people who make Bacon Salt. All varieties of Bacon Salt and Baconnaise are vegetarian and certified kosher, so I bet there's not a speck of real bacon (or real bacon grease, for that matter) in any of them.

I couldn't find nutritional info on Baconnaise, but here's a link to the nutrition info and ingredient list for Hickory Bacon Salt, the only item in their product line that is vegan as well as vegetarian and kosher.

I find it amusing that Baconnaise is kosher.

Oy, another self-hating condiment.

Ah, cat fur clothing! I've got plenty of that.

One thing that always fascinates me about hotel rooms is that I can actually lay clothes on the bed without them immediately becoming fur clothing.

PCB Rob, when meeting people for the first time, more than one has looked at me, then said, "So, do you have a dog or a cat?" One person added, "...or both?"

The answer, of course, is both. Like Joyce, they cover all the bases, from white to black, with orange, brown, grey and apricot in between.

EL, thanks for providing the link. Hopefully, this will lessen the criticism from my wife that I spend too much time with that other woman.

I was cruising around the Baconnaise site and saw their big Mayonnaise Wrestling Party they are having tonight in Seattle. They mention $3 Mitch Morgans, which are Makers Mark with a bacon garnish.

http://www.baconsaltblog.com/2008/10/no-holds-barred.html

Hey Bourbon Girl, yet another way to enjoy Makers!

Lissa and Joyce, I understand there is a book which gives instruction on how to turn pet fur into yarn. You could knit yourself clothes to match your pets!

Clothes from pet fur, but imagine what they would smell like if the item got wet.

Dahlink, I hand spin, and both dog and cat fur are hard to spin without mixing them with wool. They aren't as bad as human hair, but they aren't scaly enough to grab and hold when you are setting the twist.

I have a half chow, and British chow ladies frequently knit sweaters from their chow's fur. Like PCB Rob, I wouldn't want to wear one in the rain.

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Richard Gorelick was appointed The Baltimore Sun's restaurant critic in September 2010. Before joining the paper staff fulltime, he contributed freelance criticism and features articles about food to area and regional publications. Along the way, he dispatched for short-distance trucking companies, shilled for cultural non-profits, and assisted in cognitive neurology research – never the subject, always the control.

He takes restaurants seriously but not himself, and his favorite restaurant is the one you love, too.
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