Pigs N’ Taters: not so much pigs, as pig-flavored…

Posted on August 22, 2016 by Dianna Dann Narciso
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I like chocolate covered potato chips. A lot. Last Christmas, Grimaldi Candy Company, located here in Melbourne, FL, started selling their chocolate covered potato chips at Publix. I must have gone through a dozen boxes. (They should have more in them, if you ask me.)

A long time ago, back when Hubs spent a few months in Iowa for work and I visited him, and we took a vacation around those parts, I bought a piece of bacon covered in chocolate at some shop in the Mall of America. Let’s just say I was more impressed by the mall than by the bacon covered in chocolate.

I’m a very big fan of chocolate. And a very big fan of bacon. But I didn’t think they went together all that well.

Still, when I came across this chocolate bar at the Cracker Barrel* today, I thought I should give it a try.

That’s “Milk Chocolate with Crispy Bacon Flavored Bits & Potato Chips.”

Hmmmmm.

It’s impressively thick and smooth.
 
It doesn’t look like anything’s in there. But it tastes like…salty chocolate, with a hint of meaty, almost smokey flavor. It was just weird enough that I only ate a few of those chunky rectangles before I decided I didn’t want to eat it anymore. I think they should have gone for actual bacon bits instead of generic bacon-flavored bits (whatever those might be). But maybe there’s a shelf life issue there.
 
Unfortunately, the aftertaste was like spoiled meat…so, I had to finish off with a Dove Dark Chocolate.
 

It was tough, but it had to be done.
*Here’s a question–Is the Cracker Barrel restaurant and store any relation to the Cracker Barrel cheese?

Nope. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (which a friend of one of my kids once didn’t believe contained a restaurant) is not owned by Kraft, which owns the Cracker Barrel cheese label. They have apparently been at odds over some meat products that Cracker Barrel Old Country Store wanted to market using the Cracker Barrel label.

Whatever. As long as I have chocolate…

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