Jeff Houck

The Tampa Tribune’s food writer since 2005, Jeff Houck covers the way people live through their food. He also hosts the Table Conversations food podcast and believes that everything crunchy is good.

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Baconlube, ‘The Gold Standard Of Meat Flavored Massage Oils’ [Press Releases From Hell, Vol. 49]

Posted Nov 15, 2011 by Jeff Houck

Updated Nov 15, 2011 at 05:56 PM

I’ve seen a lot of odd press releases.

Today set a new high-water mark on the bizarro-meter:

J&D’s Foods set to Keep It Sizzlin’ with baconlube™

Should Everything Taste Like Bacon?  Yes.  Literally everything.

About baconlube

You’ve always been a lover of bacon.  Now you can be a bacon lover with baconlube, the world’s first bacon-flavored massage oil and personal lubricant.  No more horrifying bedroom experiments with bacon grease just hot oily bacon-y good times.

But before you start giving meat-flavored massages, we have one small admission to make - baconlube began as an elaborate April Fool’s prank and was never intended to be a real product.  When the joke ended, the emails kept coming and coming and coming. People harassed us via email, in public and in highly inappropriate ways (thanks for that).  The baconlube waiting list grew to thousands of people! Expectations were built, we had to deliver.

So who’s responsible for this highly anticipated creation actually coming to life? Slightly perverted bacon obsessed people, that’s who.  And an intern named Martin, who sacrificed and offended his taste buds in the name of science on sample after failed sample before this really did taste like bacon.

We’ll make no judgments about why people want this or what they want to do with it, but baconlue is here, it’s real and available now just in time for the holidays for $11.99 at www.baconlube.com. Supplies are very limited.  Keep It Sizzlin