PrintBacon+Chocolate+Sugar= Heaven
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Although we've tasted a couple of other chocolate-bacon confections and have been underwhelmed, we are totally smitten by the "pig candy" ($9.50 a quarter-pound) at Roni-Sue's Chocolates in the Essex Street Market on New York's Lower East Side.
Note: Bacon snobs, please stop reading here. Rhonda Kave (aka Roni-Sue) takes a piece of Jimmy Dean bacon, supplied by butcher and market neighbor Jeffrey Ruhalter and fried by the good folks at Shopsin's (also in the Essex Street Market), and dips it in high-quality milk or dark chocolate.
Now that's what I call a food-community team effort.
Is it porky? Oh, yes. Is it chocolaty? You betcha. Is it salty? Uh-huh. Is it delicious? Insanely so.
Roni-Sue also makes a fine spicy bacon buttercrunch ($8 a quarter-pound), but it needs just a little more bacon for us to be ready to enshrine it in Pig Heaven (right next to the pig candy.)
Roni-Sue's Chocolates
Essex Street Market #24, 20 Essex Street, New York NY 10002 (nr. Delancey Street; map)
212-260-0421
roni-sue.com
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13 Comments:
Mm..does look delicious. Is the photo = the quarter # ? So, what would you say is the average serving size per person? What did you wash it down with?
JEP at 9:03PM on 08/25/08
Wow! Great minds think alike. I just posted about Roni-Sue's Pig Candy this morning. It was darn delicious. :)
JEP: It's really tasty and works out to about 1.25 to 1.50 a strip. I got a strip the other day and it was $1.25. I shared my piece with my husband, and though we both could have eaten more, one strip is a good sized treat.
BrooklynBrownie at 11:36PM on 08/25/08
I could have swore that you liked the limited edition bacon truffle at Vosges, Ed.....
kathryn at 12:12AM on 08/26/08
A minute on the lips = a lifetime on the hips. I'm in love. :)
HungryItalianGirl at 1:38PM on 08/26/08
I've always been obsessed with the idea of chocolate covered salt, so this is the perfect marriage for me! I would accompany it a hot, strong cup of black coffee!
gastronomeg at 1:51PM on 08/26/08
I believe Vosges also makes a readily available bacon chocolate bar, no?
beano at 5:16PM on 08/26/08
I like the Vosges bar well enough, but I wish it was made with dark chocolate.
Ed Levine at 5:25PM on 08/26/08
Not quite enough bacon in the Vosges bacon bar. Only hints of it. But THIS... wow.
tinynancer at 6:46PM on 08/26/08
do they deliver??? I'm in SF and I'm about to buy a ticket to NY just to try this
tienh5 at 7:11PM on 08/26/08
yes, we do deliver! Pig Candy can come to you anywhere. . . :-)
life is sweet!
ronisue at 4:48PM on 08/27/08
Yeah, there isn't enough bacon in the bar and the chocolate they use is too sweet. However, the limited edition bacon truffle got it just right.
kathryn at 11:18PM on 08/27/08
agree re: the vosges bar. it tasted good enough for me to realize that the combo is a great one, but the tiny little bacon bits mixed into the milk chocolate just wasn't enough!
megannesta at 6:54PM on 08/28/08
Selfridges in London sold out of Mo's Bacon Bar in 2 days when they got their first supplies in - (when not out of stock!) for £6
£6 for a 75 gram bar? Knowing my love of bacon, and being a canny Lancashire Lass, my wife whizzed up a trial using supermarket "value" brand chocolate and BaconSalt ("the spice that makes everything taste like Bacon"). It's amazing! The first batch was just 100grams, the second was 200 grams, and now we make it with 6 bars of chocolate at a time and fight over the last piece!
We've also experimented with dark chocolate and the "Peppered" flavour BaconSalt - that's fantastic too. And BaconSalt is sold in UK and Europe now at www.crazy4flavour.co.uk saving the cost and delay of postage from USA.
StuNutt at 3:47AM on 02/16/09