So wrong, and yet...

We coughed up $6.50 for a bar of Vosges' new bacon and chocolate bar, mainly out of a perverse sense of curiousity. But. Wow. It was SO GOOD. No, really. The bacon really is crispy and fresh-tasting, little bits of salt scattered in, and...dark chocolate substrate. I would NEVER have thought it. NEVER. That's why those people are artists. Anyone can put chocolate with coffee, mint, toffee, or orange, but it takes true vision to add bacon. And mad chocolatier skills to actually pull it off. Not available at my local Vosges supplier is the d'oliva bar, white chocolate with kalamata olives. Time was (day before yesterday) I would have just said 'yick!' to that, but now...I'm a believer. I'd try it, and I bet I'd love it.

I used to say I wanted to be the Henry Rollins of linguistics-- well, that didn't happen, exactly, but if I could be the Vosges of paper jewelry, I'd be a happy, happy gal.