Quite possibly the world's most perfect food! If ya haven't tasted this lil' sucker, you haven't lived. From the beautiful mind of Katrina Markoff and her wonderful company, Vosges Haut-Chocolat, comes Mo's Bacon Bar. Applewood smoked bacon + Alder wood smoked salt + deep milk chocolate, and boasting 41% cacao (that's the fancy way they're ratin' top-shelf chocolate these days.) Here's the lowdown on how they ended up with THE two great tastes that taste great together!

"I began experimenting with bacon + chocolate at the tender age of 6, while eating chocolate chip pancakes drenched in Aunt Jemima® syrup, as children often do. Beside my chocolate-laden cakes laid three strips of sizzlin' bacon, just barely touching a sweet pool of maple syrup. And then, the magic—just a bite of the bacon was too salty and I yearned for the sweet kiss of chocolate and syrup, so I combined the two. In retrospect, perhaps this was a turning point; for on that plate something magical happened, the beginnings of a combination so ethereal and delicious that it would haunt my thoughts until I found the medium to express it—chocolate.

From there, it was just a matter of time…and what began as a love of salt and sweet quickly unraveled into an obsession. No sooner could I wait to unveil the royal coupling in solid bar form, a deep milk chocolate with bits and pieces of applewood smoked bacon and just a sprinkling of Alder salt. Really, what doesn't taste better with bacon?"
– Katrina Markoff

Available at vosgeschocolat.com. $7.50 a pop, but worth every finger lickin' cent.