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How does duck bacon – made from chopped, pressed and cured duck breast meat – compare to traditional pork bacon? Doug gives it a try.
Video: Duck, duck, bacon?
Sample product provided by Maple Leaf Farms as part of a promotion for the Boston Wine Expo.
Not sure whether this sounds delicious, or horrifying, or both. According to Gothamist.com, a database engineer in Texas created this thing he calls a Cthurkey (a nod to horror writer H. P. Lovecraft’s octopus-head creature the “Cthulhu“) made from turkey, octopus, crab legs and bacon. His recipe calls for cooking each part separately, so it’s more of a presentation than an actual dish. Read more at Gothamist.com, which published this first in 2013.
