Worst. Blogger. Ever. That must be what I am. Haven't blogged in over a year! Can you (the 3 of you out there that read this) ever forgive me? Let's move on to the candy, shall we?
A long while back I got the original Mo's Bacon Bar, which is the smaller one in the photo above. More recently I got the Dark Bacon Bar and so when I sat down to blog, I decided to do both of them at the same time (that's what she said). Sadly, upon opening, the original bacon bar had bloomed :( That's what I get for waiting so long.
The Dark Bacon Bar is simply gorgeous, a nice sheen and 12 neatly scored squares with embossed images on them (the Vosges logo and what looks to be a girl holding a bag, weird). It smells like smokey chocolate but there was no meaty smell which I think is a good thing because as delicious as bacon is, a chocolate bar should not smell like meat (even if it has meat in it, does that make sense?). It's 62% cacao so it was a nice bitter chocolate with just enough sweet to get it on with the saltiness of the Alder wood smoked salt and the baconyness of the Applewood smoked bacon to result in a ménage à trois in my mouth. Oh yeah, I said it!
The bacon was not overpowering at all, none of the flavor elements were, they truly all worked together in this fantastic bar. It was obvious that the bacon pieces were real pork bits and not just imitation pork product thrown in, it tasted like real bacon not like something disguised to taste like some approximation of bacon.
You should definitely pick up a bar if you should cross its path.
A long while back I got the original Mo's Bacon Bar, which is the smaller one in the photo above. More recently I got the Dark Bacon Bar and so when I sat down to blog, I decided to do both of them at the same time (that's what she said). Sadly, upon opening, the original bacon bar had bloomed :( That's what I get for waiting so long. The Dark Bacon Bar is simply gorgeous, a nice sheen and 12 neatly scored squares with embossed images on them (the Vosges logo and what looks to be a girl holding a bag, weird). It smells like smokey chocolate but there was no meaty smell which I think is a good thing because as delicious as bacon is, a chocolate bar should not smell like meat (even if it has meat in it, does that make sense?). It's 62% cacao so it was a nice bitter chocolate with just enough sweet to get it on with the saltiness of the Alder wood smoked salt and the baconyness of the Applewood smoked bacon to result in a ménage à trois in my mouth. Oh yeah, I said it! The bacon was not overpowering at all, none of the flavor elements were, they truly all worked together in this fantastic bar. It was obvious that the bacon pieces were real pork bits and not just imitation pork product thrown in, it tasted like real bacon not like something disguised to taste like some approximation of bacon.
You should definitely pick up a bar if you should cross its path.
