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Miette in Hayes Valley, SF, has bacon lollipops.

I guess there was chocolate covered bacon at our MN State Fair this year. People who tried it said the first bite was pretty good but it was downhill from there.

I just made it this weekend as a joke for a camping trip. It was good and everyone loved it. Perfect sweet and salty mix.

I plan on making these for our next party, probably over the holidays. I think they sound fabulous.

last week i had a piece of candied bacon and it was amazing! it didn't really sound appealing to me, but i changed my mind as soon as i tasted it.

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I have to agree. I think this is why a lot of chefs are serving 14 or more courses of small bites in order to capture some of these unique taste combinations without filling you up on them. Sometimes one bite of something is just enough to register the pleasure of that flavor.

We purchased that chocolate-bacon bar recently. The package stated that the inspiration was eating bacon with chocolate chip pancakes. So maybe there's a little something to be said for nostalgia? The first bite of the bacon-chocolate bar was good - not great, but good. I found it quickly became kind of boring, which is not what one would expect of a salty-sweet combo.

I'll stick with multigrain sesame pretzels and chocolate covered caramel when I really need a salty/sweet, chewy/crunchy fix.

yeah, the chocolate-dipped bacon made it's debut at the MN State Fair (aka The Great Minnesota Get-Together) this year and reviews were pretty unanimously bad. I don't eat meat, but my friend tried it and said it was the nastiest thing ever, and I heard the same from a lot of other people as well. They also had some kind of maple syrup-glazed bacon, which sounds a little less disgusting.

Also, sadly, the bacon wasn't on-a-stick. Most other things at the MN State Fair are though. They even have hotdish-on-a-stick!

I haven't seen any bacon chocolate products yet, but choose hot because I would like to try one. Smokey, salty, high fat, sweet, chocolate - what's not to love?

We've been making chocolate-covered bacon for a couple of years. Much better made at home than the vosges bar.

Locally, voodoo donuts makes a bacon maple bar. It is a long john with a strip of bacon on top. Good, but the bacon isn't the best. We buy the plain long johns and add our own bacon at home.

For me, eating pretzels with ice cream is my kind of salty-and-sweet combo. I'm a little allergic to bacon, so I'm probably not going to ever gravitate to it as a dessert. Bacon and chocolate, seems kind of like cutting yourself on purpose. It's not quite like a full-on premeditated suicide, but it's not really an accident.