Pickles & Dimes

Bacon stuff to make, buy, try and enjoy. Mmmmmm…bacon.

Bacon flowchart

Gummy bacon

Bacon gumballs

Bacon salt

How to make a Bacon weave

Bacon bandages

Bacon wallet

Bacon gift boxes (includes the t-shirt: “Bacon is Meat Candy”)

Watch this hilarious jim gaffigan bacon bit

Bacon air freshener

Plush bacon

Bacon floss

Bacon mints

Bacon beans

Bacon placemats

Bacon lunchbox

Bacon pennant

Bacon spinner game

Bacon toothpicks

Bacon costume

Bacon cookbook

And don’t forget to wrap your gift in this.

Happy Bacon Holidays!

So, we went to the Great Minnesota Get Together (the state fair) this weekend. Let’s start off easy, OK?

First off, Spam, the great Minnesota staple.

Now how about some Norwegian hotdish on a stick? (Jason’s mom tried it. It was deep-fried meatballs and tater tots. Mmmmm.)

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What kind of stupid time warp does today exist in, anyway? It’s 3:30 on a Wednesday in the middle of one of the longest months ever, I have no motivation, and time is passing so slowly that I feel like a target in a shooting gallery: I’m overwhelmed by things I want or need to do, and then PING! I get shot down by feelings of lethargy. I recuperate by procrastinating until I stress myself to action again, upon which point I stand back up with thoughts of productivity and goal-accomplishing on my mind and PING! I’m down again. And yet this day will not end.

The Minnesota State Fair starts tomorrow and both Jason & I took Friday off so we could go to the Brad Paisley concert and gorge ourselves on alligator nuggets (seriously, I love the alligator nuggets SO MUCH). The Thing will be accompanying us this year, which I am strangely happy about. Also, awhile ago my mom sent me an email with the subject, “Hey crazy bacon lady,” telling me that there will be TWO new bacon foods at the fair this year: The Pig Licker (chocolate-covered bacon sprinkled with sea salt) and the Big Fat Bacon (1/3 lb. of fried bacon covered with maple syrup. On a stick, of course). Looks like I’ll have to sample both - in the name of science, naturally.

Also, I hear there will be Pickle Pops: frozen pickle juice in a push-up sleeve. Fantastic. I better start training for my culinary descent into Fair Food Frenzy.

It’s now only 3:39. Alert the media! I have apparently found the Fountain of Youth. It exists here within the bowels of Workplace, where you never age BECAUSE TIME NEVER MOVES FORWARD.

Hi,

I cannot post today because I have SIX HOURS of MEETINGS.

(That is 75% of my work day.)

There is not enough bacon in the world to make me happy about this.