DU Lounge Challenge!

[wysimdnwyg]

I have a theory that I would like some help with. I believe there is no food in existence that could not be made better tasting with either bacon or chocolate (or in some rare cases, both, but not necessarily at the same time).

My challenge to you, DU Loungers, is to come up with a food item that would not be improved with the addition of either bacon or chocolate.

[Scuba]

1. No food item can be improved by adding chocolate....

... and that's not JUST me.


Bacon's good with lots of things, but I think it would ruin a nice creme brulee.

[wysimdnwyg]

6. Creme brulee...

Despite your objections, I'm going to go with chocolate on this one. Not a lot, perhaps a swirl on top.

[AsahinaKimi]

2. Green Tea Ice Cream stands alone.

[wysimdnwyg]

7. All ice cream

(with the notable exception of the already exceptional bacon ice cream) gets chocolate on top. I will admit it might be a bit odd at first with green tea ice cream, but I stand by my assertion.

[AsahinaKimi]

14. Sorry, no one I know

eats Green Tea with Chocolate. Its simply not done.

[wysimdnwyg]

19. Having never tried green tea ice cream, I cannot make a firm statement here

I shall endeavor to find some and try it. With and without chocolate and/or bacon.

[Phentex]

3. The obvious answer is bacon.

If you add bacon to bacon you get more bacon - not better tasting bacon.

Bacon wrapped lemons aren't good.

[wysimdnwyg]

8. Bacon on bacon?

That's MORE BACON! And honestly, have you ever tried chocolate covered bacon? Yum!

[HopeHoops]

4. Beer

[wysimdnwyg]

9. You can't eat bacon while enjoying your beer?

Of course you can!

[geardaddy]

15. What about chocolate and beer?

[OriginalGeek]

27. I beg to differ

Bacon Beer.

Yep. This is a lager brewed by Brauerei Spezial in Bamberg. It’s made for (well, besides bacon-loving patriots) eating along with meats like kielbasa, smoked chicken, maybe some grilled pork chops…you get the idea. “Bamberg makes a lightly smoky lager that’s crisp and amber-colored. It’s very dry and slightly nutty, with an unmistakable bacon note in the finish…”

[Kali]

5. fruit pie

I could eat bacon WITH pie, but it wouldn't be good in or on fruit pie, and chocolate doesn't work there either.

[wysimdnwyg]

10. Chocolate works with fruit pie

It's the same theory as to why that swirl of raspberry sauce you can get with certain chocolate desserts works so well. It does require moderation, but a small amount of chocolate can be very nice with a slice of a fruit pie.

[davsand]

11. Tuna Salad???

I can't get my head around bacon or chocolate--either one--on or with Tuna salad. I know some folks eat other combinations that would gross me out, so maybe that tuna salad exclusivity is just me. I dunno.

YMMV.



Laura

[wysimdnwyg]

16. That's too easy

Any meat is improved with bacon.

[fizzgig]

12. vodka

i once had some maple bacon infused vodka once and it was terrible

[wysimdnwyg]

17. Hmmm... a challenge

Perhaps chocolate, but how to combine. I would suggest making a chocolate flavored vodka is not the best idea. Perhaps some type of chocolate ball infused with vodka. Like a rum ball.

[fizzgig]

21. i've had chocolate vodka in a martini before

it was pretty tasty

[ohiosmith]

13. Matzo balls.

Wouldn't be kosher!

[wysimdnwyg]

18. This theory is unconcerned with philosophical distractions

As bacon itself is not kosher, the presence of Matzo balls is irrelevant. However, if you remove the kosher requirement, bacon is easily an improvement. Of course, if you remove the Matzo balls, chocolate by itself can be kosher. (I would guess there are some manufacturing requirements for that.)

If you must have kosher and you must have Matzo balls, my suggestion would be turkey bacon. Surely that could be made in a kosher fashion. (Although I admit it would skirt the rules of the original premise a touch.)

[ohiosmith]

20. Turkey bacon is about as much bacon as a veggie burger is a burger.

A contradiction of terms.

[fizzgig]

22. i've made matzo breaded pork chops fried in bacon fat

i don't know that my family has ever kept kosher, the dish seems so wrong but tastes so right

[ohiosmith]

23. I'd eat that.

[RZM]

24. Tomato Juice

I actually don't much care for it, but I don't think bacon or chocolate would help either.

[wysimdnwyg]

25. Definitely not chocolate

I'm not sure how you would actually combine bacon with tomato juice, but I would think eating bacon while drinking tomato juice would help the experience. (For the record, I don't care for tomato juice either.)

[OriginalGeek]

28. I routinely put bacon bits in my tomato soup

so it's not that far a stretch to put it in my tomato juice.

OP wins again!

[RedCloud]

26. Orange Juice.

Oh good, I get to cheat some!

OJ during cardiac arrest bedrest with doctor watching!

[OriginalGeek]

29. Nay, a chocolate Orange is a beautiful thing.

Those are so good it would be easy to drop a sploosh of Hershey's syrup in my morning OJ.