Category: Curiosities

23 bacon products to take your breath away

Back in June I posted two handy products (bacon lip balm and bacon gum) to help your breath maintain its bacon-fresh aroma. If you want a full arsenal of dental deliciousness get a load of these.

Bacon toothpicks

Bacon breath mints

Bacon dental floss

And some alternative Bacon Lip Balm

And alternative Bacon Gum

Bacon T-Shirts

Nothing shows your love for bacon like wearing it on your sleeve… or perhaps torso…
Push Button… receive bacon

A dream presidential ticket

Bacon makes everything better

Jews 4 Bacon – if I was Jewish I’d convert to Christianity in a snap.

But wait, there’s more

If you love a morning coffee with your morning bacon but you’re strapped for time – how about this “Maple Bacon Coffee“.

If you want to keep your car and house smelling like bacon get a load of this bacon air freshener.

If you want the rest of you to smell like bacon, but don’t want to make your own bacon soap, you can purchase this stuff.

Decorate your home with these bacon cushions.

Nothing helps you wash down your BBB (bacon, bacon and bacon – why use salad when you can just eat the good stuff) like liquid (bacon beer perhaps) from a bacon drink bottle.

Carry that around with this bacon lunch box for a truly inspired lunch time.

If you want to go to the butchers and produce an appropriately themed wallet you could do no better than this one

Nothing says “it’s bacon time” like a bacon watch.

If you haven’t eaten enough bacon you can hold your pants up with a bacon belt

Thrill your friends with the prospect of a bacon tuxedo with this gift box (tux not actually included)…

Ali sent me a link to this bacon scarf

If you want to go as bacon to a fancy dress party, or the office, then this bacon and egg combo is for you…

St Anthony is apparently the patron saint of Butchers – and thus the patron saint of bacon… by logical extension.

Finally, if you’re ever in a tight spot and asking “What would bacon do” here’s a handy Bacon spinning chart that comes with a handy document folder.

Spice up your chess game

You’d care a lot more about your little pawns if every time you lost one you had to swallow its innards… especially if those innards were pure salt or pepper.

Via GeekDad.

Alfa Romeo v Alpha Centauri

I want a car with laser beam headlights… but then, don’t we all. I figure the space invader aliens are from somewhere out near Alpha Centauri? Right?

Paper Mario Bros

This Mario is made entirely out of paper. Which is pretty awesome. And if you want to make your own (but who would? Seriously?) then you can get the template file here.

Try this Sudoloo

That’s not the worse pun I could have made here… but keep this as a spare in your reading basket to solve a puzzling predicament… what are you to do when you use the last square of toilet paper in the house? Never find yourself in that dilemma again. Buy this now

Nothing says “I’m sorry” like ctrl + z

Mr Burns in real life

I don’t know that I could work for this guy (or the cartoon version for that matter)… but I do like untoonings.

What to do when the plumbing industry dries up

When the bottom fell out of the plumbing industry Mario and Luigi went into hospitality.

Via Geekologie

Ducklings for cover

This Duck Hunt wall decal is brilliant.

Especially because it’s essentially made of pixels.

As a bonus – courtesy of the designer – is this flash version of the original Duck Hunt.

A rasher decision

Bacon toilet paper*. I’m not sure there’s anywhere I can go with this. Except to say that if you’re going to print something on your toilet paper it may as well be something awesome.

If you’re trying to understand why I talk about bacon so much perhaps you should read point four from this Slate article.

*not made from bacon.

Real life Lemmings


This street art is funny – but it is not “Lemmings in real life” (as this link proclaims) it is “characters from the game Lemmings in a real life context”… This, on the other hand, is a real life lemming…

Play with gusto

Anyone who ever owned a NES gaming console knows that to make it work you had to give the cartridge a good gust of wind. So some bright spark decided to put a harmonica inside them and sell them on ebay. Ahh. Nostalgia.

Creme eggs benedict

Delicious. From This is why you’re fat.

Sliced doughnuts topped with brownie mix, melted Cadbury Creme Eggs and frosting, garnished with red sprinkles and served with fried pound cake chunks.

Twotris

Two player Tetris puts the power of the Tetris Gods in the hands of your “friend”. The friend picks the pieces. You place them.

Biting the bullet

This chocolate weaponry is enough to kill any diet.

Perfect for the American market.