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THE INSIDER

BACON COMES HOME TO ROOST
Godshall's Quality Meats has put the bawk, bawk, bawk in
bacon. The Telford, Pa.-based company manufactures and sells
chicken bacon.
"Our alternative bacon offerings started in 1994 with beef
bacon and turkey bacon," says Ron Godshall, the company's
vice president of manufacturing. "The popularity of those
products established us as a go-to source for alternative
proteins. We've worked with a variety of retailers as a result."
The chicken variety is a rare bird in the world of bacon.
Godshall says chicken bacon customers fall into two general
groups - people who don't want pork for religious reasons and
those avoiding red meat as part of a healthier lifestyle.
"The chicken bacon customer is a consumer that is looking
for less fat or non-pork bacon but still likes bacon fried crispy,"
Godshall says.

'MEAT-SCENTED LUXURY'

OVERherd
"We'll probably see
when somebody
sneezes that they're
going to say, 'Ah,
it's E. coli from
Chipotle,' for a little
bit of time."

It's either a sign of the apocalypse
or the fact that bacon aficionados
now have everything they could
possibly want to satisfy their cravings
for the cured meat. We're talking
about bacon-scented underwear,
available from J&D's Foods, which
sells products online (www.jdfoods.
net) and through specialty and
mainstream retailers.
J&D's says its bacon-scented
underwear, available for men and
women at $19.99 a pair, marries "the
ultimate in comfort and cured meat"
and "represents the gold standard of
meat-scented luxury undergarments."

Monty Moran, co-CEO of Chipotle, on the
fallout from a multi-state E. coli outbreak
linked to people eating at Chipotle.

CURED MEAT CURES HANGOVERS
A London-based craft meat processor is offering a meat snack that it says
will cure hangovers. London-based Serious Pig says the high-protein product,
appropriately named "Hangover Cured," fights off nausea and fatigue, two
symptoms associated with too much drinking.
The meat snack, which contains chili and ginger, must be eaten while a person
is drinking to perform. Incidentally, Serious Pig founders Johnny Bradshaw and
George Rice came up with the idea for their company in 2009 over a cold one.

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ROLL ON, WIENER ROVER
Oscar Mayer's limited-edition mini
Wiener Rovers are all gone.
The remote-controlled Wiener
Rovers, a replica of the all-terrain
Wiener Rover that Oscar Mayer rolled
out in July for National Hot Dot Day,
were sold via the company's Twitter
page on select days in November and
December. They proved to be a very
hot toy item for Christmas, selling out
faster than Joey Chestnut can eat 20
hot dogs.
While an Oscar Mayer
spokesperson said there are no plans
to manufacturer more Wiener Rovers,
the company made this tweet after
the toys were gone: "If you Rove
something, let it go. If it comes back,
you know it's true Rove. Goodbye for
now Mini #WIENERROVER.
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