Bacon soft drink

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Lester's Fixins Bacon Soda on a shelf with other flavors Bacon soda.jpg
Lester's Fixins Bacon Soda on a shelf with other flavors

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]

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Jones 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]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 'Disgusting' bacon soda turns stomach of New Yorkers who tried it, NY Daily News
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Lockhart's New Bacon Soda, Dallas Observer
  3. 1 2 3 Bacon Drinks Review - Jones Bacon Soda and Bakon Vodka Taste Test, Esquire
  4. 1 2 3 4 The Cooler: Bacon Soda - Local 12 WKRC-TV Cincinnati Archived 2014-05-02 at the Wayback Machine
  5. 1 2 Would You Drink Bacon Soda? | OC Weekly
  6. ↑ "The Great International Bacon-Soda Taste Test". Epicurious.
  7. ↑ Jones Soda selling bacon in bottle: Would you drink it? - Seattle's Big Blog
  8. ↑ Would you drink bacon soda?. USA Today .
  9. ↑ Jones Bacon Flavored Soda - Delish.com
  10. 1 2 The Worst Four Sodas at the New Rocket Fizz Downtown | Blogtown, PDX | Portland Mercury
  11. ↑ Rocket Fizz Company Information
  12. ↑ Crazy Soda Flavors Taste Test: Buffalo Wing, Bacon, PB&J And More, Huffington Post
  13. ↑ Photos: Denver gets a Rocket Fizz Soda Pop and Candy Shop | Westword
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