Bacon News

A 105-year-old Texas woman, Pearl Cantrell, says the secret to longevity is bacon. Her 81-year-old son Billy Allen shares his mother's secret: She begins her day with a cup of "coffee pudding," that is, coffee with milk, sugar, biscuit and bacon.

J&D Foods is run by Justin and Dave. Apparently they are "just two regular guys" and it's their dream "to make everything taste like bacon." Now it seems they have ventured into the sex market.

Everything goes better with bacon, the old saying goes, and now one intrepid company is taking that axiom to a whole new level by introducing bacon-infused shaving cream.

Comedian-actor Josh Sankey has teamed up with Oscar Mayer in a bizarre bid: to travel across 12 American cities with their brand of bacon as his only form of currency. No cash, credit cards, debit or cheques. Only bacon, and lots of it.

It's all about the bacon (and past favourites such as deep-fried butter) at Toronto's Canadian National Exhibition this summer. The Toronto Star Food Building will offer bacon sundaes, bacon popcorn, pulled meat on pancakes and much more.

There's a common saying among foodies: "Bacon makes everything better." But according to some reviewers, the bacon-flavored milkshake recently unveiled at fast food chain Jack in the Box is the exception to the rule.

Detroit - Doctors in Detroit, Michigan are now advocating an offbeat way to treat nosebleeds. All you need to do is stick a "nasal tampon" made from salted, cured pork up your nostrils.

Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree, how lovely are your (bacon) branches? The fun chefs at Epic Meal Time have devised a way to make your very own holiday bacon tree, decorated with fast food ornaments.

Legend has it that in the year 1920 a Parisian butcher accidentally concocted a powerful, mood-lifting elixir and discreetly distributed the popular remedy to those with power or fame. Four years later, the butcher lost his shop and the recipe to a fire.

The new beverage concoction is a bacon-flavored soda that is available now for a limited time during the holiday season.