Saturday, May 31, 2008

Bacon Salt redefines my Top 5 "What was life like before this?" list


Okay, as many of you know who follow my Tweets on Twitter, I have procured the variety pack of Bacon Salt. I love bacon. I think this xkcd comic summarizes my life well. So I am going to attempt to claim my Bacon Salt experiment is a "health play".

In the last 12 hours I have put it on popcorn (Original flavor) and scrambled eggs with cheddar (Peppered). Both are absolutely awesome. The bacon flavor is surprisingly intense. I would say this though, despite its name, it isn't extremely salty. In both cases, I have had to supplement with my standard course ground salt to get the right level of seasoning.

The thing that surprises me most is that this product is supposedly vegan-friendly, which I think means that no actual bacon is used in its production. What black magic provides the taste? The mystery is eating me despite the fact that the ingredients are on the side of the bottle.

I am pretty sure Bacon Salt will be a staple in my cabinet and I will be reordering often. Often, I talk to people about products that I would loath to go back to life without them. Here is my current Top 5, redefined now.

  1. Internet connectivity. Duh. I love my FIOS.
  2. Tivo. Any early parent can especially appreciate the value a DVR has, given all the child-driven interuptions.
  3. Hot Yoga. This is my other health play. I started at the beginning of the year and it has been revolutionary. Exercise that I regularly do? That is why it is on the list. I will post more on this some other time.
  4. Bacon Salt. See Above. By the way, the founders/creators have a blog, it is hilarious.
  5. Nature's Rest Latex bed (King Size). I have a reputation of being a person who needs little sleep. Once we bought these during my wife's second pregnancy, I started being able to sleep 1-2 hours more per night.
Just getting pushed out of the list, replaced by Bacon Salt, is Heated Car Seats. Which I still love because nothing beats warm buns in the winter.

I will post more on my Bacon Salt exploratory weekend here if something is revolutionary, otherwise, you can just follow my trevails on Twitter.

Tweets for Today

  • 10:54 multi-tasking my little heart out. #
  • 18:01 just got the mail and received my bacon salt! #
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Friday, May 30, 2008

Tweets for Today

  • 12:28 was this really a short week? #
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Thursday, May 29, 2008

Tweets for Today

  • 08:25 Finally back in the office. Facing several overlapping meetings. #
  • 10:16 Stupidest criminals ever knock themselves out trying to commit the crime. tinyurl.com/4vowk9 #
  • 10:58 I did it. I just placed my first order for Bacon Salt. Scrabbled Eggs,Popcorn,Burgers will all be baconized! www.baconsalt.com/ #
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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Tweets for Today

  • 07:46 sitting in the Newark train station headed to Delaware. #
  • 16:09 headed back to NJ after a great day in Delaware. #
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Tweets for Today

  • 10:49 Off to Ikea and then yoga #
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Friday, May 23, 2008

Tweets for Today

  • 07:14 my neck is so stiff I can't turn my head. No sneaking up on me today please. #
  • 19:03 very excited to be sitting in a theater to watch Indiana Jones. #
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Tweets for Today

  • 10:21 In San Fran and adjusting poorly to PST. I was ready to go to work at 2am. At this pace, I will be done with all my good thinking by 10am. #
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Monday, May 19, 2008

Tweets for Today

  • 08:02 Big day yesterday. It feels like Friday was a week ago. I need coffee. #
  • 13:56 taking off for San Francisco #
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Sunday, May 18, 2008

Tweets for Today

  • 13:40 at Penn reunion wondering who all these people are. #
  • 16:23 just back from a long walk through the city of brotherly love. Getting ready for a Phillies game tonight. #
  • 19:41 at thbe phillies-bluejays game with college friends. #
  • 22:38 just watched the phillies lose and having an apple pie with vanilla sauce in a diner from 1953. #
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Saturday, May 17, 2008

Tweets for Today

  • 08:32 Going to Yoga to purify before unpurifying at my reunion at Penn this weekend. #
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Thursday, May 15, 2008

Tweets for Today

  • 13:17 @pdpinch I have decided that you are the next most likely person to get into Friend Feed. Check it out and let me know if you sign up. #
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Tweets for Today

  • 08:32 In the office, ready to take on the day. #
  • 16:26 @slapjack7 (2) #
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Tweets for Today

  • 14:19 Thinking so hard smoke is coming out of my ears. #
  • 20:19 Finally have been able to come up for air. #
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Saturday, May 10, 2008

Tweets for Today

  • 06:15 NYC isn't nearly as fun in the rain #
  • 09:27 Trying to figure out how these complicated benefits work #
  • 11:00 Just had an hour of solid work erased by a Lotus Notes /Microsoft conflict. I hate Lotus Notes. #
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Friday, May 09, 2008

Tweets for Today

  • 06:25 entertaining the little ones in the morning - a rare treat - while L is at 6am yoga. She is hard core. #
  • 08:34 Got in to work so quickly today, it was like I had a motorcade slicing through NYC rush hour traffic. I love when that happens. #
  • 09:29 So completely sore from yoga #
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Thursday, May 08, 2008

Tweets for Today

  • 07:16 knocking stuff off my to-do list before wall-to-wall meetings all day. #
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Tweets for Today

  • 21:03 Finally unburied from the flurry of late afternoon emails. Inbox = ZERO! #
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008

Tweets for Today

  • 06:36 Am I one of the only people to love Mondays? #
  • 12:49 I really need to clean my office. My "just stack it on top of that pile" approach is not working for me. Not very GTD. #
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Monday, May 05, 2008

Tweets for Today

  • 16:33 Watching the kiddies, having just ordered them bunk beds. #
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Saturday, May 03, 2008

Tweets for Today

  • 09:38 Back from two days out of the office. Time to catch up on all the moving pieces that were set in motion before I left. #
  • 15:52 Planning on cooking up a storm this weekend alternating between being the chef and the sous chef #
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Friday, May 02, 2008

Tweets for Today

  • 10:21 @empg you need to start doing GTD #
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