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The Ford Motor Company has announced that it is looking to enhance the appeal of its Fiesta sub-compact through the power of bacon. According to the Ford Custom Graphics website, lovers of crispy pork products can order any of four different bacon themed vinyl wraps ranging a “mini-strips” package which costs a modest $78.75 all the way up to a “full bacon wrap” for $3347. The website indicates that Ford Custom Graphic vinyl products, properly installed and maintained, are covered by a three year warranty and have been tested to ensure that they can be used all year round regardless of the weather. With International Bacon Day set to take place on August 31st, the time to show the world your meat is now.
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That would be fun here. There are some mosques in Milwaukee.
Hell, looking at this again, I’d help them stone it.
In Milwaukee they throw empty Miller Beer bottles, not stones
I also am not sure this would go over well next to where my parents live…
Because it’s trayf or because it’s haram?
I wonder whether the bacon look would increase or decrease the likelihood of this car becoming a carbecue – the way I see it, it could work both ways…
If this car becomes a hit in France I guess we’ll know eventually.
Your comment made me think of a huge refrigerated warehouse in Madison, WI that burned down one night in 1991. It was the main storage facility for the local Oscar Mayer plant… megatons of burned/soaked/rotting meats, collapsed roof and droopy girders.
The smell the first couple of days was enticing, then tiresome, then nauseating. Took a good month after the cleanup to go away 80%, another month to leave completely.
I had a friend who lived 5 blocks away. I doubt that he can even look at a piece of bacon to this day.
Although International Bacon Day is a big deal, they really should have saved this for April 1.
You took the words out of my mouth.
It seems you can’t get bacon on the Mustang or F-150.
Now *that’s* a missed opportunity.
E-van. Diesel. Set up at tailgaters and sell cooked bacon, keep the grease for fuel.
Notice how it’s not Canadian bacon.
You mean “ham?”
When my Japanese in-laws, aunts and uncles etc, first came to my huose I made a huge breakfast for them, including lots of crispy bacon. They were shocked. Apparently, “bacon” to them was what we call Canadian bacon.
They spent years thinking I had some special technique, Thom the miracle cook, to make that bacon crispy and I guess my wife’s aunt spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to make crispy bacon. She could never do it and I couldn’t visit Japan without hearing about how much she really loved that bacon and what a great cook I was. Then my wife went and spoiled it for me by telling her the truth. Stupid truth…
the times I’ve been in Japan, the hotels I’ve stayed in have offered a couple “American” breakfast options. I had them a couple of times when I was sick of okayu and natto. The bacon was belly bacon but only cooked to done and not crispy.
Bacon doesn’t have to be crispy to be excellent!
There’s a place down the street from my previous apartment (http://thepublicanrestaurant.com) that serves house-made bacon as a side dish during weekend brunch.
It’s incredibly thick – a cross section would be a square – so it’s impossible to make crispy. But it’s easily the best bacon I have ever had.
I’ve had something similar in Japan. If its what I think you are talking about, its a cube about two inches by two inches, slow cooked so the bacon fat just melts in your mouth.
I want to say the one I ate was cooked with some kind of BBQ sauce and brown sugar so it was a lot like a largr version of the chunks of bacon you get in a BBQ beans with bacon dish. Super good but the fatty texture is something I had to learn to live with.
sounds more like fatback to me, but w/o seeing it I can’t say for sure.
jz and Mr. Kreutzer,
The bacon I was describing was most definitely pork belly, just *generously* sliced by hand rather than by machine as you would see in traditional American-style bacon. At the grocery store, you will see a few bacon packages that are “thick sliced”. Take that idea to the extreme.
Koreans have no idea how to make bacon crispy either. They know “bacon” is the term for American-type bacon, but they cook it limp as a noodle.
Ugh.
I meant to imply a second snub since Derek is Canadian. That said I’m no butcher but wouldn’t ham and bacon fall into different aspects of a meat chart?
Oh, I see. Subtlety is lost here…
I believe Canadian bacon is also called “back bacon.” “American bacon” is made good old fashioned “pork belly.” Back bacon includes pork loin and pork belly on the same cut, the loin being a leaner and more ham like.
My favorite dish in Japan was Okonomiyaki, liberally dosed with bacon. It’s gotta be what sumo wrestlers get fat on, by god it’s worth every artery clogging calorie.
On a tangent, Ford should make a sushi vinyl wrap for the Fiesta. I’d buy that. Especially toro, not so much uni.
We make that at home sometimes. It’s a Kansai thing and my wife is from Kyoto. One of the Japanese foods I really like.
Henry is turning over in his grave. What a dumb idea.
So this is actually a thing that you can buy with cash money? Wow… I wonder how many hipster Fiesta buyers will splurge on the full wrap?
Now if Ford was really smart (which they aren’t, as shown recently), they’d offer this on their Police packages.
Comment of the day, right there.
Yah need the maple bar wrap to do it right.
PBR wrap.
+1. Will Ford be able to do this if I bring in an old crown vic “interceptor” ?
What would Anthony Weiner do with this concept?
James Brown OWWWwww
This is one of the stupidest actual factory options I’ve ever seen.
But I can’t help but like it deep down inside.
Ford works really well with a bunch of aftermarket companies that build out commercial vehicles. You can go to a dealer and buy a van or a truck and have it fitted out for your specific needs with a minimum hassle. It’s part of the reason why they do so many commercial fleet sales.
This is another one of those vendors and in their quest to increase sales, they apparently found just the right person in Ford’s marketing department to take out to lunch. For bacon.
Jamon Serrano for the Spanish Market, Prosciutto Crudo for Italy, a severed hand for Yemen, the possibilities are endless!
As a huge bacon fan my wife sent me this link the other day. Everyone I have showed it to has the same reaction: why is this showcased on a GREEN car? While I LOVE bacon (and who doesn’t) I don’t think wrapping my vehicle in it is something I would PAY to do. Now if the interior came with a bacon SMELL… then Ford would be onto something!
“Green eggs and ham”?
About that smell
http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/ea0c/?pfm=Search&t=bacon%20air
I think they all look horrible except the bacon hood strips. those are pretty neat. This is the type of marketing I would expect from MINI, not Ford, and that’s a compliment.
You’re right…the rest of the car just looks like a skinned buffalo.
Definitely not a Buffalo. No wings.
“Now they’ve given this Mini something to make it quintessentially British, what do you think it is?”
“A blow up queen?”
“A beefeater.”
“Edward fox!”
“No, some tea spoons and tea bags.”
“A blow up queen.”
Man, there could be a whole lot of different meanings in that little sentence…
Not to British people!
Especially if tea-bagging is involved
Stephan liked to live life on the edge. He hadn’t started out that way, of course and his sudden revelation had thoroughly shocked his solidly middle class parents. They wondered, what had they done wrong? They had given their son all the advantages, sent him to the best schools, exposed his to sports and given him lots of intellectual activities he could pour himself into. How was it, they wondered, how indeed had their son become a British blow up queen? It simply wasn’t done and now even the shopkeepers in town were sniggering at them behind their backs.
Little did they know that it their own indulgence that had driven the boy down that path…
… and we’ll continue with “The Life and Times of Elton John” after the break
This definitely belongs in the “You can’t make this stuff up” category. Until I went past the jump, I was sure this was JB’s way of getting even with FoMoCo . . . with the help of a skilled Photoshop artist.
Time for me to retire, for sure.
So, I can’t get a 2-door ST Fiesta, I can’t get a full-size spare in a Fiesta, but for three grand I could get this.
As a novelty on a toy this would be fine, but I’d rather save the money for a second paint job when the time comes.
So this is supposed to curb my appetite for the Focus RS……?
Dammit, now I’m just hungry.
I do not like them,
Sam-I-am.
I do not like
green Fords and ham.
Would you like them
Here or there?
I would not like them
here or there.
I would not like them
anywhere.
I do not like
green Fords and ham.
I do not like them,
Sam-I-am
Would you like them
in a house?
Would you like them
with a mouse?
I do not like them
in a house.
I do not like them
with a mouse.
I do not like them
here or there.
I do not like them
anywhere.
I do not like green Fords and ham.
I do not like them, Sam-I-am.
My apologies for not fishing this out of the spam filter in a more timely fashion.
Not even Epic Meal Time would go for this, and they’re all about the bacon strips. Ew.
As a vegetarian, I’m nauseated.
As a cholesterol nazi, I’m nostalgic.
I just had breakfast. I’m content!
I suddenly have a craving for an Egg McMuffin
… sans the grim reaper
Hey now, Malachi seems like a pretty cool dude.
Oh, sure, today he’s your buddy, but down the road…
Maybe next time..suddenly he appears in the passenger seat (without opening the door) of a Modern Steel Metallic Honda Accord as the driver sits idling in a Burger King drive-thru…
Uhhh, then again, DON’T! 8-O
Roses are red, bacon is too, I’m no good at poetry, BACON!
Thanks for the heads up on Bacon Day. I’m going to eat “Bim Bop Bacon and Eggs” at my favorite brunch spot tomorrow. It’s on a site that used to be “Cox’s Cleaner” and the name can be abbreviated T and A. I love the place. Oh yeah, parking it cheap. (car related tie in OK?)
It’s here! International Bacon Day! Does anybody have a recipe for cooking bacon on your exhaust manifold? I lost my article on engine compartment cooking.
I’ve heard about that.
Need to be especially careful baking bread under the hood..too many carbs! (:: Rim shot!! ::)