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Mo's Bacon Candy Bar Review
A few weeks ago my boss was kind enough to think of me when he saw a Mo's Bacon Candy Bar at a store. He bought it, and brought it to me the next day knowing that I would be curious and excited enough to give it a go. Needless to say I was excited and curious.
I didn't exactly know what to do with it so I left it on the counter for about a week while I tried to figure out the best way to consume it. I considered melting it and putting it on top of some ice cream, but that seemed like it might skew my first impressions. In this time I happened to be watching an episode of the Food Network's show Unwrapped when they went to the factory and showed the making of this candy bar. They talked about the quality products they used, the quality apple-wood smoked bacon they used and the quality chocolate and how people just really seemed to love the bar. I got more excited.
Last night after dinner I finally decided to crack the bar open and give it a shot with the family.
The packaging was real nice for sure, nicer than your average candy bar. The chocolate was sealed tightly ensuring freshness of both chocolate and bacon.
I broke off a square for myself, for my son and wife (my daughter gracefully bowed out of this). I put the chocolate in my mouth not really knowing what to expect. Would this be bacon flavored chocolate? or would it be chocolate with chunks of bacon in it? Well, this was no bacon flavored chocolate. It was quality chocolate with what first seemed to be crunch-like bits in it. I was pleasantly surprised. Immediately I said, wow this is pretty good, kind of like a crunch bar!
Then I continued chewing and swallowed the chocolate and bacon. At that time I realized the full extent of what I had gotten myself into. I had chunks of chewy, chocolate-covered-bacon stuck in my teeth and that is when the after taste really kicked in. It was SUPER salty and tasted more of bacon than chocolate. I don't know that I can really describe how completely disgusting this was. I am a lover of bacon, I really am, but this made me and the wife almost vomit. We immediately went and got a soda to try and wash the taste out of our mouths. I ended up having to brush my teeth.
Seriously though, I hate writing bad reviews, but this candy bar was the most disgusting, revolting novelty item. If you happen to love bacon, and love chocolate, by all means buy one of these bars and put it on your shelve to show all your friends how funny and cool it is. But by no means, I mean really, by no means eat it. You will regret it.
File this candy bar with the hand buzzers, fake vomit or dog poo. That is where it belongs.
I didn't exactly know what to do with it so I left it on the counter for about a week while I tried to figure out the best way to consume it. I considered melting it and putting it on top of some ice cream, but that seemed like it might skew my first impressions. In this time I happened to be watching an episode of the Food Network's show Unwrapped when they went to the factory and showed the making of this candy bar. They talked about the quality products they used, the quality apple-wood smoked bacon they used and the quality chocolate and how people just really seemed to love the bar. I got more excited.
Last night after dinner I finally decided to crack the bar open and give it a shot with the family.
The packaging was real nice for sure, nicer than your average candy bar. The chocolate was sealed tightly ensuring freshness of both chocolate and bacon.
I broke off a square for myself, for my son and wife (my daughter gracefully bowed out of this). I put the chocolate in my mouth not really knowing what to expect. Would this be bacon flavored chocolate? or would it be chocolate with chunks of bacon in it? Well, this was no bacon flavored chocolate. It was quality chocolate with what first seemed to be crunch-like bits in it. I was pleasantly surprised. Immediately I said, wow this is pretty good, kind of like a crunch bar!
Then I continued chewing and swallowed the chocolate and bacon. At that time I realized the full extent of what I had gotten myself into. I had chunks of chewy, chocolate-covered-bacon stuck in my teeth and that is when the after taste really kicked in. It was SUPER salty and tasted more of bacon than chocolate. I don't know that I can really describe how completely disgusting this was. I am a lover of bacon, I really am, but this made me and the wife almost vomit. We immediately went and got a soda to try and wash the taste out of our mouths. I ended up having to brush my teeth.
Seriously though, I hate writing bad reviews, but this candy bar was the most disgusting, revolting novelty item. If you happen to love bacon, and love chocolate, by all means buy one of these bars and put it on your shelve to show all your friends how funny and cool it is. But by no means, I mean really, by no means eat it. You will regret it.
File this candy bar with the hand buzzers, fake vomit or dog poo. That is where it belongs.
The thing is, it really ought to work. Chocolate and salt are good together, chocolate and smokiness are good together.
One thing I wonder is whether the chocolate should be darker and more bitter. It also sounds as though the bacon should be more, well, bacon-y, and that's not so simple.
As an experiment, I think someone with access to decent smoked bacon at a sane price (not $30/lb, like here) should dip a perfectly-cooked and blotted slice of bacon into very dark chocolate. Make several slices and have your friends and loved ones try it too. Then let us know whether it's any good.
i was actually afraid to brush my teeth after. what if the mint and rancid bacon joined forces?
No, but seriously, that sounds amazingly vile.
Anybody remember that remark in The Restaurant At the End of the Universe, about Antarean parakeet glands, which are disgusting but rare and expensive and are primarily used by rich idiots to impress other rich idiots? Somehow this thing seems similar, I don't know why.