Chocolate-Covered Bacon

(Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. I should be working, but it's Friday, it's raining, I'm leaving early to go play with Krippy, and the Grey Lady has lots of fun articles today.)

I already blogged about this subject ... back in April. Looks like I'm not the only one who wished the ratio of bacon to chocolate in those Vosge bars was different.

Mmm … Bacon! (Of the Chocolate-Covered Variety)

"The creation was offered by Rhonda Kave, a chocolatier who started her shop, Roni-Sue, a year ago in Essex Street Market. She started selling it two months ago as part of her salty-and-sweet line, inspired by the chocolate and bacon bits bar offered by Vosge. That product, she said, did not have the right bacon-to-chocolate ratio for some people’s tastes. So they decided to dip the whole bacon strips. ... But so far, the chocolate-covered bacon, which sells at $38 a pound, has been among her biggest hits. One man comes in every week to buy half a pound for his daughter."

$38 a POUND!? That's crazy!

One of these days I'll make to the Chocolate Show. To a chocolaholic, it's like Valhalla and Neverland all wrapped up in cacao.

(Photo: Hiroko Masuike for The New York Times)