Bacon Mary!

I came across a neat idea this morning, and tried it out. And Bacon Mary sounds much nicer than Bloody Bacon!

1. Half-fill a glass (take your own choice of size!!) with Tomato Juice
2. Add a half level teaspoon (or to taste) of Peppered Bacon Salt
3. Add Vodka - to taste (I like them strong)
4. Ice - Stir - DRINK

CHEERS!

Baconnaise, Bacon-Choc, and other spices

We have a few jars of J&D's Baconnaise coming in shortly. It's going to be a bit expensive, due to the cost of shipping 450-gram jars, but we've had inquiries so we'll give it a try. If you are interested then email us at the address on the Sales Site by which time we should have firmed-up the price.

We're just adding the finishing touches to the packaging before we can offer "Amanda's Bacon Chocolate" (pretty much as per the recipe here on the blog, but all done for you). The inspiration came from "Mo's Bacon Bar", a chocolate bar with real bits of bacon in it that sold out in Selfridges 2 days after it went on sale at six quid a bar (75 grams)! Ours will be a fraction of that price - including postage - and trust me, it's good!

Packaging is now done for the Black Lemon Powder and the Arabian Spice Mix - pictures are offto the web-site designers and these should be on sale within days now.

Overseas Adventures

As promised, the Crazy Team are hunting for new tastes to add to the web-shop, including the long-promised Black Lemon. My travels have taken me to the Middle-East, places where Bacon is banned - Aaagh!

How do you survive in a country where there's no bacon, ham, pork? And where some of the local food tastes like **** to Westerners? The answer is in BaconSalt (not "Bacon Salt"!) I took a supply with me, and no worries about getting grabbed by the Airport Customs for "smuggling Bacon", as BaconSalt contains no Bacon (and not too much Salt), but it makes the unfamiliar grub taste acceptable - Gooood.

I'll be back at the shop soon, with new additions to the range (Oh, what I go through for you guys) and Amanda is faithfully keeping the orders going out while I've been away (and that is going to cost me on my return - there has been mention of a weekend trip to Liverpool - errrr?)

You Don't Have To Give Up Bacon!

I discovered BaconSalt because I love bacon - not because I wanted to stop eating it! Sometimes I need a real breakfast (being a healthy growing lad!!) and Amanda frowns as she gets out the frying pan, or at least fires-up the grill.

Coming from the South of England as I do, I've discovered different food-stuffs up here in Murky-Side, including a wonderful "snack-wrapper" locally called a "bin-lid" - more region-wide referred to as a Stottie (see Wikipedia) which is a bread bun, sometimes as much as a foot in diameter, which is split and filled with all sorts of breakfast goodies.
Our frying pan is about the same size as a 9-inch bin-lid from ASDA, so a couple of eggs, with the yokes slightly broken, fit just nicely, and four rashers of (grilled - for my heart's sake!) spread on top, the whole filling dusted with Pepperd BaconSalt makes a great breakfast for a chilly, damp, Murky-side morning.

Amanda has promised (threatened?) to do her "Slimmimg World" (or heart case!) Bacon Flan for me at the weekend . . . Please darling, can I have Bacon and BaconSalt in this too?

Sales Coming In

Sales orders starting to come through now . . . .

One was for a lass who works in Saudi Arabia - as I know from sad personal experience, a place where all forms of pig-meat are banned, and the Western Expat population are desperate enough to travel to Bahrain to get their "weekend breakfast fix"! She was on holiday at home in Scotland when she heard about BaconSalt being available in UK and ordered eight bottles to take back with her!

I've done "mock pork barbecues" in Saudi, with veal chops marinaded in pork stock cubes, but I bet with BaconSalt sprinkled over, veal will be even better. Might give the "Turkey Bacon" a lot more flavour too!

Meanwhile, I tried Dave Lefkow's (the originator of Bacon Salt) father's favourite - BaconSalt on Ice Cream - Just on one corner - I didn't think that one did it for me until I got to a bit where there was just a hint of BaconSalt, and that was certainly something I'll check out again. (At the moment I've run out of Ice Cream :(

The Origin of Crazy 4 Flavour

Working in the Middle-East for the last 20 years was a real "hardship post". You've probably heard how most countries there either ban booze completely or restrict its availability. As if this wasn't enough, they make even life harder by not allowing bacon! Imagine - Life without bacon :(

One of my "online friends" on an internet forum http://z3.invisionfree.com/JBSocialBoard/index.php?act=idx posted a link to BaconSalt, probably just to get me drooling, but by that time I was based back in UK and eating far more lovely bacon than my newly-acquired wife thought was good for me, so I checked-out where to buy this apparently wonderful solution to the wife's nagging about my fat intake and my lust for the taste of bacon. I checked through the list of sellers on the web site, and found that there was nobody selling in Europe, so contacted J&D's in Seattle to order some, but it cost me as much in shipping as it did for the BaconSalt! Someone should be selling this wonderful stuff on the Eastern side of the Atlantic!

Look what a wife-approved "healthy" sausage, bacon, and eggs looks like:
The BaconSalt is mixed in with the eggs while cooking, and some more sprinkled on the top - It's awesome!

So began the concept of CRAZY4FLAVOUR. After finding that it really did go with everything,and with my own supplies running out (the kids love it too, and put it on everything!) I decided to import in bulk and sell what our family didn't use!

Company name now registered, the domain in UK (as well as Europe, and the "dot-com") bought, company bank account, all this after ploughing through UK and EU food import and sales regulations to make sure that it did not contravene the myriad of laws that are visited upon us by our well-meaning (but not necessarily bacon-loving) .governments in Westminster and Brussels.

The web site is being built by LeSoftco - not finished yet (as you can see from the link!) - and the procedures for accepting Credit Cards for purchases are under way. All that is left is to get a couple of tons of the stuff shipped out from J&D's in Seattle ;)

Stu