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hand modeling by Slog’s favorite bacon fan, Lara

Maple Bacon ice cream, courtesy of Molly Moon’s in Wallingford. The bacon bits melt into the sweet ice cream like pecans—salty, fatty, and chewily crispy—so the result fishtails around “gross” and speeds right into “mmmnnmmblfffunnnghgimmemore.”

This flavor, along with Rosemary Meyer Lemon and Blood Orange Sorbet, debuted days ago at the shop, assumedly to attract eaters during this year’s never-ending snowpocalypse. Good call, Molly. You know what they say about bacon.

62 replies on “Today in Bacon”

  2. I am so over and through with the bacon-fad of the last 6 months or so. It’s jumped the shark, it’s not cool or hip to put bacon in everything you eat, get over it. You can leave all your bacon-cupcake and bacon-icecream recipes right next to your Atkins book in the dumpster.

  4. I’m wondering if the people that follow Bacon and the novelty of Bacon actually have the ability to cook Bacon. Once you cook Bacon, the novelty of it wears out quickly.

  8. I was just there for the first time the other day and sampled that flavor. It is pretty good, but I agree that the bacon fad has gotten a little silly. But I still like bacon.

  9. Bacon as fashion: stupid.

    Bacon as obsession: gross.

    Bacon as dietary staple: obesity.

    Bacon as a sometimes food: delicious since time immemorial!

  12. Seriously, enough with the bacon.

    Remember kids: Eating meat means fueling your body like an SUV. It’s bad for the planet.

  14. I wonder what the carbon impact is of driving to that store for bacon ice cream?

    During rush hour?

    Compared to someone who walks to the store and makes bacon with a microwave powered by hydro electricity from a nearby organic farm?

  16. People who cook bacon in the microwave deserve whatever nastiness they have coming, especially if said bacon-torturing microwave is in the office. Shot in the face. Seriously.

  17. @15, I know, don’t you know the cruel things they do to those sweet little pigs they get the bacon from!?!?!? How fucking BARBARIC eating bacon. You may as well rape a 4 year old child; it would almost be less violent!!

    For shame, Oh the HUMANITY!!! The HUMANITY!!!

  18. Am I the only one that thinks Molly Moon’s is overhyped? Mallard in Bellingham has been doing the “unusual gourmet ice cream flavor” thing for years, I’m surprised it wasn’t done in Seattle until now.

  20. Only in America can you find people willing to spend $5 on bacon ice cream or an espresso while simultaneously drowning in credit card debt with their primary residence in foreclosure after being laid off from the minimum-wage Wal-Mart greeter position.

  24. No, here’s what’s stupid, gross, and obese (well, actually the opposite, grossly skinny sometimes): Cigarettes. That definately falls in that catagory.

    Bacon on the other hand, never goes out of fashion, is beautiful not gross, and since I mostly eat turkey bacon, yummy and healthy. It sure makes boring salads much better.

  27. @16 – just use recycled term papers to line the microwave tray, absorb the organic grease, and then put said papers in the compost bin with the yard waste.

    Yum, carbon-almost-neutral bacon!

    (your slumlord mileage may vary)

  30. I like ice cream.

    I like bacon.

    But I’m sorry, those two flavors should never, ever, be in my mouth at the same time. Gross!

  32. @28: Better question: How many vegetarians or vegans make that choice based solely on the idea that it’s wrong to kill an animal? Answer: not many. It’s a stupid comparison and you don’t look clever for bringing it up. There are many reasons not to eat meat that have nothing to do with the “meat is murder” mentality.

  35. bacon does belong in everything. i eat bacon everyday. breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, sprinkled on my popcorn, in my ice cream, on nachos, wrapped around my steak. i would use bacon shampoo if i could find any. i have bacon bandages, a bacon pillow, and i’m saving up to buy the bacon scarf (it comes wrapped in meat paper). bacon is life jesus. it saved my life and never goes of style. . . and i’m skinny.

  36. there are a lot of ho-made words in the article and the thread. bacon tastes good to most human’s and animals, too. it’s scrumdilliicious!

  40. As the owner of the pictured bacon cone, I can tell you it was delicious. Period. If you stop thinking about abortion and start enjoying your goddamn ice cream, it tastes a lot better.

  41. @38 And… for a supposedly progressive newspaper in a supposedly progressive town, there’s an awful lot of irresponsible meat posts on this blog. Bacon is for people who do not care about the planet.

  42. Just for yucks they should try to have it certified Kosher. I’m sure if you pay some rabbi enough he’d do it. Kosher’s all about money for rabbis after all, and after the Maddoff scandal, they probably could all use a little bit of cash.

  46. Molly Moon’s has some great flavors (cardamom RIP), and some meh flavors (salted caramel truly does taste like … well, what it was previously referred to as on Slog). I didn’t like the bacon chocolate bar, and I don’t think I’d be willing to risk the money on a scoop of bacon ice cream. I’d rather Lara risks it for me so I can try hers.

    Hey pissypants “meat is murder” poster: do you walk everywhere in vegan shoes? Compost and recycle everything that passes through your hands? Have energy-efficient bulbs all over your house? Only use three squares per wipe? No? Then get off your damn high horse.

  47. @41, Pigeon holing people doesn’t work very well does it? Supposedly progressive? Who the fuck cares about labels like that? Limp-wristed vegetarians?

  48. Where is the best bacon in Seattle anyway. And I mean without icecream. I used to go to a custom smoker on the Orting Hwy and buy a pound every onece in a while. They closed and I have never found as good a replacement.

  61. Every time someone like Nadya Suleman drops a litter of 8 ir more the media just goes gaga and celebrates. Nadya is selfish.

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