Slog - Comments on Bacon Salt: Uncut http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut This morning I interviewed two local entrepreneurs, Dave Lefkow and Justin Esch, the creators of Bacon Salt. The interview will debut as a Chow Bio in the coming weeks, but due to space limitations, I had to pare a lot down. However, I feel that their struggle to conquer the American Dream--earning fat profits from bacon-flavored salt--should not be abridged. Bacon Salt is, as Lefkow and Esch put it, the new salt. It comes in three flavors: Original, Hickory, and Peppered. Worth noting: It is Kosher. It is Vegetarian. Hickory flavor is Vegan. The partial inspiration for Bacon Salt is... Copyright 2008 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:20:06 -0800 Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:19:55 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Levislade Thank you for bringing this matter to my attention.

Hickory Bacon Salt, here I come!!!

]]> Levislade http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803449 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803449 Chow Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:50:24 -0800 Comment by Amy Kate Horn Cienna, tell me you asked them how the hell they make it (no calories, vegetarian, etc.) taste like bacon?!?

]]> Amy Kate Horn http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803452 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803452 Chow Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:52:55 -0800 Comment by Issur Another Kosher food appearing to delight our taste buds is always cause for celebration. The basic laws of kashrut fouond in the Torah's Book of Leviticus demand vegan dining to be in God's light.

I can't wait to try kosher bacon salt. The pork eating goyium with their bacon burgers disgust me. Now I can eat bacon flavored foods and remain above goyium.

]]> Issur http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803470 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803470 Chow Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:00:11 -0800 Comment by tomasyalba "Pike Street Marketplace." Ms. Madrid, you funny!

]]> tomasyalba http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803474 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803474 Chow Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:01:52 -0800 Comment by laterite Tacoma, Idaho? That doesn't sound local to me! Oh, the labels are printed on Capitol Hill? That's more like it.

]]> laterite http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803476 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803476 Chow Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:02:13 -0800 Comment by laterite ah, that's not meant to imply that Tacoma is in Idaho...sarcasm gone terribly wrong there...

]]> laterite http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803478 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803478 Chow Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:04:38 -0800 Comment by jz in related news, the steelhead diner offers smoked salt in its shakers, which is pretty goddam good.

]]> jz http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803485 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803485 Chow Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:07:26 -0800 Comment by Jimmy Legs Most awesome in corn chowder.

]]> Jimmy Legs http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803498 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803498 Chow Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:15:40 -0800 Comment by COMTE Alas, my Doc says, "Bacon - bad. Salt - bad." So, no Bacon Salt for me, boo-hoo.

@4:

It sounds like you might have thought Cienna was making a "funny" by mixing up an anagram for "Pike Place Market", however, she's referring to a real store (if by "store" we mean, "a fru-fru-chi-chi upscale convenience store") up on Pike & Belmont I believe.

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803502 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803502 Chow Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:16:57 -0800 Comment by Essex OVER salt eating is a major problem in American Health - TOO much sodium.

Water retention, messes with your heart, blood pressure, hyper tension, much longer list.

Bacon salt, go get fucked. Have not used salt in any form for twenty years.

Try a splash of hot sauce, MUCH better than bogus chemical laden salt concoctions - also lemon and lime juice help flavor anything, all natural.

]]> Essex http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803537 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803537 Chow Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:39:45 -0800 Comment by mjg So rather than including naturally delicious bacon, they instead use corn syrup, bleached flour, monosodium glutamate, maltodextin, vegetable shortening (trans fat), and hydrolyzed veggie protein?

Um, no thanks. I'll stick to the real thing and let the vegetarians eat all that shit.

http://baconsalt.com/images/shop/nutrition-original.gif

]]> mjg http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803544 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803544 Chow Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:44:32 -0800 Comment by cienna Amy Kate--

I was prepared to be horrified at the list of ingredients, but the main ones are relatively mild. Here are the top 5 for Original Flavor:Salt, dehydrated garlic, paprika, dehydrated onion, and corn syrup. Most of the other ingredients are recognizable as well.

I have no idea how they pull it off, but it really does taste like delicious bacon.

]]> cienna http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803550 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803550 Chow Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:51:19 -0800 Comment by Boylston wow. msg AND transfat. with the taste of bacon? I'll have to make sure to pick up a gallon of soda to drink with that one.

]]> Boylston http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803564 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803564 Chow Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:08:12 -0800 Comment by Katelyn For awhile I was excited about Bacon Salt, but then I realized I could just make some real bacon and sprinkle THAT on everything.

]]> Katelyn http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803568 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803568 Chow Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:09:38 -0800 Comment by --MC So .. what did the kid do that won him the money on AFV? Was he the kid whose eyes would bug out when they turned the lights out on him, or what?

]]> --MC http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803574 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803574 Chow Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:14:18 -0800 Comment by cunei4m Thanks to google...

And none of that would have been possible without the help of Lefkow's three-year-old, Dean. The family recorded a video of the boy hitting a T-ball into his dad's face. That video was picked in a random drawing from America's Funniest Home Videos, winning $5,000.

]]> cunei4m http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803594 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803594 Chow Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:38:28 -0800 Comment by cunei4m Also...

@10

It does say an all natural version is coming soon...

But, aside from that...

I was vegetarian for 7+ years and I can now (re)attest that there is absolutely nothing as delicious as bacon. Oh, wait...except for *THIS*!!!!

http://www.schallerweber.com/nutrition-smokedbacon.html

]]> cunei4m http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803599 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803599 Chow Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:41:16 -0800 Comment by kid icarus And just to provide that contrary opinion so popular on these here Slogs, *I* have been a vegetarian for 7+ years and can (re)attest that bacon is nasty, nasty shit. Still can't stomach the stuff.

]]> kid icarus http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803614 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803614 Chow Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:06:08 -0800 Comment by BaconLover Bacon Salt is the fucking shit. I'll gladly down minuscule amounts of hydrogenated oil and MSG for convenient bacony goodness all over my popcorn, eggs & potatoes. Viva la Bacon Salt!

]]> BaconLover http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803622 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803622 Chow Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:12:30 -0800 Comment by Ronald Holden I'll wait for the "natural" version. Not that the original "flavors" aren't okay, but they taste, well, artificial. Then again, packaged American bacon tastes artificial, too.

]]> Ronald Holden http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803623 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803623 Chow Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:12:47 -0800 Comment by mjg You can have my nitrate-free, heirloom pork bacon when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.

]]> mjg http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803653 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803653 Chow Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:39:33 -0800 Comment by Happy as a pig in . . Absolutely irrelevant to the discussion of it being kashrout, or vegan, or whatever - BUT - I just went past their display booth at the Puyallup.


They have quite possibly the world's most amazingly gorgeous tall redhead there dispensing BaconSalt.


I may die of dehydration I had so many samples. . .

]]> Happy as a pig in . . http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803679 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803679 Chow Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:54:27 -0800 Comment by Katelyn Would she still be gorgeous if she was dispensing cod liver oil samples?

]]> Katelyn http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803686 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803686 Chow Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:57:54 -0800 Comment by Happy as a pig in ... Yes.

]]> Happy as a pig in ... http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803741 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803741 Chow Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:39:21 -0800 Comment by here are you kidding me? america's funniest videos is the best. and i'm not being sarcastic and i'm not being an ironic hipster. people getting hit in funny places and pets doing adorable and hilarious things never gets old.

]]> here http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803750 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803750 Chow Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:51:22 -0800 Comment by Gene Bacon Salt has changed my life! Someone should nominate these guys for a Nobel Prize!

]]> Gene http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803841 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803841 Chow Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:53:03 -0800 Comment by Big Adventure Steve Bacon Salt does not make your beer taste better. You've been warned.

]]> Big Adventure Steve http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803856 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803856 Chow Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:35:20 -0800 Comment by PdxRitchie I like bacon flavor and all, but, Cholula seasoning is where it's at.

]]> PdxRitchie http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803904 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c803904 Chow Thu, 13 Sep 2007 04:04:48 -0800 Comment by leek Ugh. I just imagined not having had salt in 20 years and now I have to spend the rest of the day huddled beneath my desk with my trusty salt lick.

"Essex" is the anti-me.

]]> leek http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c804080 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c804080 Chow Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:34:36 -0800 Comment by margie loves marys i admit i'm hooked on this stuff... or maybe i'm hooked on booze, but either way it kicks ass in a bloody mary

]]> margie loves marys http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c804517 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/bacon_salt_uncut#c804517 Chow Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:19:55 -0800