Bacon soft drinks are soft drink beverages with the flavor of bacon.[1][2][3][4][5] Several US companies produce bacon soda brands, including Jones Soda, Lockhart Smokehouse and Rocket Fizz.[1][2][4]
Manufacturers
editJones Soda and J&D's Down Home Enterprises, both based in Seattle, Washington, collaborated to produce a bacon-flavored drink that has ten calories per serving.[1][3] Real bacon is not used in its preparation, and it is a vegetarian product.[1][5] Creation of the flavor took several months of work to accomplish, in attempts to mimic the flavor of bacon.[1] Esquire magazine has described it as having a dark red color with a strong bacon odor and a strong sweetness derived from artificial sweetener.[3] In a taste test survey conducted by epicurious for Jones Soda bacon-flavored soft drinks, overall totals from taste testers (using a 1-to-10 scale with 10 being the highest) equated to "Fragrance: 2.02, Flavor: 1.58, Bacony-ness: 4.57 and Overall: 1.76".[6] In November 2010, the company's marketing director, Mike Spear, stated "We felt it was our duty as leaders in the premium soda category to carbonate bacon’s salty goodness."[7] Jones Soda markets their bacon soda as part of a package that includes other bacon-flavored products, including bacon-flavored lip balm, popcorn, gravy and salt.[8] The company also bottles and produces other meat-flavored sodas, such as turkey and gravy.[9]
Lockhart Smokehouse in Dallas, Texas produces a brand of bacon-flavored soft drinks named Meat Maniac.[2] It has been described as having a synthetic bacon flavor and as creamy and sweet.[2] The product has no animal products on its ingredient list.[2]
Rocket Fizz, a franchise of candy stores with its flagship store in Camarillo, California, produces a bacon-flavored soft drink under their brand name Lester's Fixins that is named Bacon Soda.[4][10][11][12] In 2012, the owner of the Rocket Fizz store in Denver, Colorado stated that bacon drinks are the store's best-selling soft drinks.[13] Rocket Fizz also produces ranch dressing-flavored, buffalo wing-flavored, and dog drool-flavored drinks, among others.[4][10]
See also
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References
edit- ^ a b c d e 'Disgusting' bacon soda turns stomach of New Yorkers who tried it, NY Daily News
- ^ a b c d e Lockhart's New Bacon Soda, Dallas Observer
- ^ a b c Bacon Drinks Review - Jones Bacon Soda and Bakon Vodka Taste Test, Esquire
- ^ a b c d The Cooler: Bacon Soda - Local 12 WKRC-TV Cincinnati Archived 2014-05-02 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b Would You Drink Bacon Soda? | OC Weekly
- ^ "The Great International Bacon-Soda Taste Test". Epicurious.
- ^ Jones Soda selling bacon in bottle: Would you drink it? - Seattle's Big Blog
- ^ Would you drink bacon soda?. USA Today.
- ^ Jones Bacon Flavored Soda - Delish.com
- ^ a b The Worst Four Sodas at the New Rocket Fizz Downtown | Blogtown, PDX | Portland Mercury
- ^ Rocket Fizz Company Information
- ^ Crazy Soda Flavors Taste Test: Buffalo Wing, Bacon, PB&J And More, Huffington Post
- ^ Photos: Denver gets a Rocket Fizz Soda Pop and Candy Shop | Westword
External links
edit- "You asked for it -- Bacon Soda!". The Baltimore Sun. Includes a large image of Jones Soda bacon-flavored soda.