Drink in the bacon

March 8th, 2010
Guest

This guest post is contributed by Katheryn Rivas, who writes on the topics of online universities accredited. She welcomes your comments by email.

“Bacon mania.” That’s the term news outlets have been using the past few years to describe Americans’ whole-hearted obsession with the pig product. Comedian Jim Gaffigan even has a bit about the joys of bacon (family-friendly video). Pigs are big business down here in my state of Texas, too, especially with the rodeo in town. I’d heard of a few ancillary bacon-based or -inspired products, but until I went looking for them, I had no idea there were so many outlandish offerings made from pig’s meat. Without even getting into bacon mints or bacon clothing (scented tuxedo?!), just look at the subcategory of bacon drinks:

Bacon vodka. Or, more accurately, Bakon Vodka. Released by Black Rock Spirits in 2009, this flavored liquor is one of the most well-known modern takes on the food. A Baltimore reporter wrote that it has a “meaty aroma,” which seems obvious, and Black Rock claims that it’s sold well in its local Seattle area. Of course, if you don’t feel like buying flavored liquor, you can always make your own.

Bacon coffee. This drink seems to simultaneously make more and less sense than bacon vodka. Flavored liquor is nothing new, but meat-flavored coffee? I understand that they’re both often consumed at breakfast, but just because they’re ingested in the same meal doesn’t mean that it should happen at the same time from the same cup.

Bacon beer. The drinks never end with bacon. This one’s a small stretch, too, since technically it’s a smoked beer, known in Germany as “rauchbier,” and it achieves its flavor by having the barley dried over an open flame. That smokiness can lead to a distinct bacon taste. Of the three major drinks being blended with bacon, beer seems to be the most natural fit.

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Snow sculpture at One Pork Avenue

February 22nd, 2010
Keith

When life hands New Piggers lemons, New Piggers make lemonade.

When life hands New Piggers outrageous amounts of snow, New Piggers do what you see in the video below.

(Watch this twice! Once for the sculpture, once for the clouds.)

Click here for photos

Get your snowpocalypse supplies right here

February 11th, 2010
Keith

New Pig world headquarters has been in the path of Snowmageddon this week.

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You, too? Here’s a quick look at products we carry that are related to snow. Not many items (and one of them is on clearance, hint hint), but talk about drifty … er, nifty.  Click on the captions to see ‘em!

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Strap-on cleats for snow and ice!

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Hide your snow melt in style!

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Like upholstering a 5-gallon bucket of snow melt!

Our absorbent mat helps out after botched oil delivery

February 4th, 2010
Betty

A customer called with a heads-up that PIG® Oil-Only Absorbent Mat appears in a new Weather Channel video. Oil was accidentally pumped into a basement, and our Mat Pads were part of the cleanup (see below for a frame from the video).

Imagine waking up to overpowering oil fumes when you’re home is heated by natural gas! Our best wishes to the family involved!

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OSHA makes injury and illness stats available

January 29th, 2010
Kevin

For the first time ever, OSHA has made available to the public a decade’s worth of injury and ilness data. A searchable online database of 80,000 employers from the years 1996 to 2007 is now available.

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“Making injury and illness information available to the public is part of OSHA’s response to the administration’s commitment to make government more transparent to the American people,” said David Michaels, assistant secretary of labor for OSHA.

OSHA also uses the data to target inspections. The Site Specific Targeting Program helps the agency focus its efforts on the appropriate area and industries.

New Pig is correctly Google-Mapped at last!

January 27th, 2010
Ross

New Pig’s address has been One Pork Avenue from Day One, but now it feels more official than ever. The county 911 system has been gathering street and road names lately (and changing some, and sometimes getting dramatic reactions) and fortunately they accepted “One Pork Avenue” from us.

That’s data that Google uses, and after only (!) two months, we’re now showing up on Google Maps with our semi-famous address! We’ve arrived!

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Ham-couver Olympics, here we come!

January 21st, 2010
Tammie

Hey, guess whose products will be used throughout the 118 venues of the 2010 Winter Olympics?!

I mean besides the usual suspects.

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You guessed it—PIG® products! The ones shown below (dozens of each!) were ordered for controlling leaks and spills.

Are we thrilled? Ab-sow-luge-ly!!

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PIG® Spill Kit in a 95-Gallon Overpack Salvage Drum

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PIG® Spill Kit in a 20-Gallon Overpack Salvage Drum

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PIG® Poly Spill Containment Pallet

Pork of the future: Much easier on pigs

January 20th, 2010
Keith

There’s a saying about breakfast: Eggs are a contribution but bacon takes commitment.

Scientists may change that. They’re perfecting pork made from pig stem cells.

The results so far are squishy and a little low in protein, but promising for hot dogs.

The possible (repeat: possible) environmental benefits are eye-opening. If livestock raising could be cut way back, greenhouse gas emissions, land use and water use might drop by 95 percent.

Of course, there could be other ramifications: Health effects of eating engineered meat will be carefully watched.

At any rate, keep an eye out for specials on lab chops.

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