Alas, bacon salt

[dvandom]

When I first heard of bacon salt, I thought, "I must have this thing." Sadly, at the time, it was only available in the northwest. But thanks to woot.com, a few months ago I got some.

Unfortunately, the "salt" part of "bacon salt" turned out to be the problem. By the time I add enough bacon salt to clearly taste the bacon, it's just too salty (at least, in most of the stuff I normally eat). There's one or two "once in a blue moon" dishes I eat that can benefit from it, but the bottles I bought will expire long before I use them up.

And today I spotted bacon salt in the spice section at the local Dillon's (a regional chain that became part of the Kroger Collective a while back). Thus, I can now buy it easily...but no longer want to. Sigh.

Comments

[scavgraphics.livejournal.com]

But I thank you for your sacrifice with each and every WootOff!

[jkcarrier.livejournal.com]

Insert Spock's speech from "Amok Time" about the relative merits of "wanting" and "having" here... ;-)

On the other hand, there's always Baconnaise! (http://www.baconnaise.com/)

[liabrown]

Haha, Dillon's :>

I'm a vegetarian, so I have nothing to say about bacon salt, except ewww ;P

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Well, there's no meat in bacon salt. It'd kinda like taking Bac-Os and powdering them, then adding salt. It's the various spices and smoke flavoring of bacon without actual bacon. (And dogs don't know it's not bacon either.)

[liabrown]

I see. I've never eaten bacon before in my life, so the taste would be lost on me anyway :)

I am quite taken with faux-chicken, though, despite never having eaten real chicken before. I assume they taste similar.

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Everything ELSE in nature tastes like chicken, so it would be ironic in the extreme if faux-chicken didn't. :)

[wtimmins.livejournal.com]

Maybe try bottled smoke? The smokiness might trigger something bacon related in your brain...

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

It's not actually the smoky part I like about bacon, though, oddly enough. It's the other flavor notes.