Friends of Irony: I love fishing for cows

Meat Team friend EvilAgent sent us a series of links to Friends of Irony, a project of the evil geniuses behind the Cheezburger empire. We can’t even pick a favorite, but we thought this one was delightfully meatblog worthy so we decided to share it with you.

Meatblog friends Jennifer and TrueEpicure were at World Market recently when they spotted this fascinating, yet spooky, product.

Pepper Shooters are cherry peppers stuffed with our President’s Prosciutto and wrapped around provolone cheese. For formal cocktail parties or informal backyard get-togethers, these hors d’oeuvres pack a lot of flavor.

Jennifer sent me a few camera phone snaps and added this note: “I wanted to pick up the jar and swirl it. It looks like a jar of giant eye balls. Its meat and cheese in a jar. Did I mention it’s not refrigerated?”

I forgot to stop into World Market and check them out for myself but I think I had weird dreams about these things last night anyway.

Meatblog Groupie EvilAgent sent us this tip: UrbanDaddy reports on a new cocktail at Farmers and Fishers. Why are we posting about a cocktail on the meatblog? Read on and find out…

Presenting The Bone Cocktail at Farmers & Fishers, now available off the menu on the Georgetown waterfront for your quaffing pleasure.

In short, it’s everything you need to get you through the week, all in one convenient place (namely, your glass). Your night of pork-aided inebriation begins, innocently enough, with a shot of bourbon, shaken with a few dashes of Tabasco and squeezes of fresh lime juice (the genesis of many great adventures).

Then things really come into focus (and soon after, go blurrily out of it) when your garnish arrives. Think of it as a chocolate-bacon lollipop: a slice of Wisconsin’s Nueske’s bacon (the Vince Lombardi of bacon) that has been skewered, candied with brown sugar and cinnamon, and then dipped in chocolate ganache.

You can read more at UrbanDaddy. You could also go try it out and send us a report if you’re so inclined.

We were going to ask our intrepid Bay Area consultant, DelRaySteve, to track down some Who’s Your Daddy Bacon Potato Chips for us. Then, intrepid meatblogger Faith sent me a link and I realized we could just order them directly, so we’ll do that. Dramatic mailorder snackfood action, reported live from meatblog HQ! Does life get anymore exciting?

Capital Spice has extensive coverage of Meat Week DC.

The most important event to us is the Meat Week Special Sneak Preview of Pork Barrel BBQ on Wednesday night at Mango Mike’s in Alexandria. This is important to us because we walk by the future site of Pork Barrel BBQ at least twice a day and the agonizingly slow pace of the construction is driving us crazy. We want our damn BBQ, already!

Fishinnards is working Wednesday, but I’m hoping to lure meatblogger Samer Farha to the event, so hopefully we’ll have a report for you on Thursday.

Happy Meatweek! How are you going to celebrate?

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You really need to go read the entire post about the many ways that the mayonnaise wrestling event that was planned to launch Baconnaise went horribly wrong. It’s an cautionary tale from the nice folks at Bacon Salt.

Along the way, we actually had to test the theory that mayonnaise could sting your skin or eyes - the answer was a surprising no. Justin’s girlfriend also spent two days nonstop making approximately 2,000 slices of bacon. Her house smelled like the inside of a slaughterhouse - for 3 weeks.

The whole post is very funny, but if you’re the impatient type you can just skip to the video, which for some reason I find so hilarious that I’ve already posted it several other places.

• RT @metrocurean Fried chicken is the new pork belly(cause something has to be the new something)+food buzzwords for ‘10 http://bit.ly/2w76jP #

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According to the Washington Post, our friends at the Neighborhood Restaurant Group are featuring octopus specials at two of their restaurants this week, Tallula/Eat Bar (Arlington) and Birch and Barley (14th and Rhode Island Ave NW in DC).

Diners ordering the specials get a copy of Nancy Tringali Piho’s new book, My Two Year Old Eats Octopus. I haven’t looked at the book yet, but I thought it was kind of an interesting cross-marketing strategy. (The author is the principle at Nancy Tringali Associates, a marketing firm specializing in the food and beverage industry). I wonder what it’s like to represent the American Diabetes Association and the American Sugar Association?