There are many bacon-based or -flavored products out there, and the AV Club has selflessly taste tested a number of them over the past few months. And we've noticed a trend: Many of the ones that are actually good come from Seattle. Bacon Salt? Basically positive. Baconnaise? Better still. Bakon "premium bacon-flavored vodka"? Better than homemade. (That same test confirmed that Bacon Salt beats non-local Bacon Freak seasoning.) And the best review of all came today, when the AV Club confirmed that Skillet's Bacon Jam is super-goddamn-tasty, in both peanut-butter-and-bacon-jam and grilled-cheese-with-bacon-jam sandwich form. Clearly, Seattle knows bacon, so we proclaim ourselves Bacon Capital of the US. Just in time for the trend to die. (Oh, and sorry about the bacon mints.) more ›

The last time we told you about Bacon Mints, Archie McPhee's attempt to test the notion that everything tastes better with bacon, we quoted someone who worked there. "Disturbingly delicious," they declared. more ›