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nearly burning down the apartment part fifty jillion

It's important to use every part of the bacon. I think this candle was actually the prototype for a later one? John, Conrad? Confirm or deny ... !

We're putting some of Yuko's original paintings up in the store - all proceeds will go to Global Giving's Japan Relief Fund. Here are the paintings:

Speaking of paintings, my brother clued me in on the art of P.H. Gandhi - this stuff is gorgeous:

I especially like Black Swan and White Lion. Take a look at her work over on Etsy!

Store update: Cat charms will be coming back! And big news regarding prints - we'll be able to offer a much wider variety! If there are any JW color pinups that you'd like as prints, feel free to leave a comment below -- I recall there were a lot of people who were interested in this one.

That's all for now! See you in a few!

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I'll take ten.

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It is my believe that bacon scented bacon candles that release an aromatic bacon scent while you consume your bacon between two slices of bacon may just be the most mouthwatering bacon event in the bacon history of man.

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You should be more careful Skie. Any more bacon in that comment and you would have hit some kind of delicious bacon singularity.

Also, we definitely need to see pictures of that bacon candle, as well as pictures of any other candles made as a result.

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STOP MAKING ME REGRET VEGETARIANISM!!! I would like to admit something to the group, I miss bacon. The smell, crunch, that way it sizzled in the pan and oh lawd the smokey savory flavor just meandering it's way across my taste-buds.

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Have yout tried J&D Bacon Salt? It doesn't have the crunch or the sizzle, but it smells and tastes great! Incredibly bacon like, especially since it contains no animals!

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I have to admit, in my own vegetarianism, bacon probably ranks among one of the things I miss the least. For whatever reason I just didn't care much about it (not that I disliked it, more it was just 'meh').

People still give me weird looks when I say this.

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ಠ_ಠ

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^ditto

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My stomach can't deal with pig products for some reason, but I really don't miss bacon. Turkey bacon is okay, but I don't feel the need to write odes to it the way that the rest of the internet seems to do when confronted with pictures like this. (And to me, that just looks gross.)

People frequently look at me like I'm insane when I state this. There must be some bacon-appreciating gene that I don't have - similar to how there are some people who can't appreciate chocolate. I give them similar looks.

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i'm not even a vegetarian and i /hate/ bacon. i can eat it once in a blue moon (same goes for bananas).
i have no idea how people can eat it so constantly. it's so gross, imho... T:

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The scent of bacon would make you want bacon. This would cause bacon people to receive more profit.

I wonder if we could make a freshly-baked cake scented candle?

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Yes you could, with sufficient internet research and a chef license.

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This term causes me a certain amount of discomfort.

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John is smiling. The world is about to end (either that or not even he could frown at Bacon)

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Art auction to benefit japan, it seems a bit short notice but we should all get in on this. Details here...

http://asiaoddhours.tumblr.com/

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Wouldn't a bacon candle really just be a grease fire bomb?

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A DELICIOUS grease firebomb!

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I'm getting serious flashbacks to this comic:
http://www.johnnywander.com/comics/176

That is how that grease firebomb would detonate.
In a nuclear mushroom cloud that is visible for miles.

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And it would still cause the (unused in this case) grill to be utterly destroyed.

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No doubt the reason why Yuko was not to find out.

BUT THEN SHE FOUND OUT >:I

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I know there's some relationship between fat and.. soap.. but.. wax? does it SMELL like bacon?

Oh man, a cuuute nué. nobody ever draws those!

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You guys might want to get pictures of that up, or my bestie and I will have to try it.. she's a bacon fiend! My favorite past time is searching for adorable bacon-themed presents for her. My favorite so far? Bacon-flavored toothpicks.

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Yay Conrad appears! I was worried he moved out and away. Did John move back in?

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Well, presumably, since the story takes place at Spacklehaus, it's all a flashback.

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Conrad moved out a long time ago (August) and John took his place.

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... bacon grease candle.

Guys, what is this I don't even. I don't know whether to laugh at how ludicrous Conrad and John are or gape in AWE at their brilliant idea.

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This is the greatest idea.

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Next time I make bacon, this is happening.

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Though I had to invert the colors http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e260/Maniac98387/010.jpg or I would have been blinded every time I turned on my screen when I got up, because that's just too much white http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e260/Maniac98387/014.jpg on the screen at once, and my camera agrees since it didn't use the flash once for the pictures I took of it non-inverted(though you can't tell how bright it actually is from the picture), but did every time with it inverted, heh heh.

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Why not use the bacon grease for cooking? It's the best. Use it for the start to fry some onions and garlic, then toss in a little ground pepper and flour. Then add a couple cups of chicken broth and half a stick o' butter. Then add some cubed baked potatoes.

There's probably enough fat in that potato soup recipe to give a sumo wrestler a heart attack, but daaaaaaaaang it's good.

Here's the details. http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Baked-Potato-Soup/Detail.aspx

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Maybe it's being from the South, but I am not understanding the confusion of what to do with bacon grease. It is bacon essence to impart on other dishes! It is not for candles or to pour on sidewalks! Use the grease. The grease is good!

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This kid in Ohio sells bacon-scented candles - as well as pizza, leather, campfire, "Grandpa's pipe" and a bunch of other "manly" scents. There's a news write-up about him here, and his site (which is kind of hidden in the news post) is here.

Personally, I would never get such a candle. It would make me want to eat bacon all the time.

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That kid is insane! He runs 5Ks, swims, keeps a 4.0 while managing a business and presumably he is only 13.

Beats my teens but I hope he is at least enjoying himself sometimes...
I would definitely buy the bacon candle, for some reason my family does not eat it that much at all, we have had bacon once in 6 months.
Maybe with this candle I can stop eating bacon forever! \o/

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Comics with John are always so great~

This reminds me of when my mom was making bacon and drained al the fat into a coffee mug, then mistook the fat-mug for her coffee-mug. She says it was disgusting.

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I really enjoy it when John makes an appearence in the comic. In an "I all love you equally because you're my children" kind of way, he's my favorite.

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I would just like to say I'd decidedly buy prints; of the one mentioned and more most likely!

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Love the look on John's face. Total unabashed man-glee.

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uhhh idk if you ever did, but was the remade version WHAT ARE YOU DOING ever made into a print?? not to say i don't like the second half of the "series", it's just if i bought a print it would go on my wall and i'm not a big fan of multi-panel things on my wall... uh;;

ANYWAY if they were already prints then NEVER MIND and i would love to see any prints ya'll make available. (:

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John and Conrad need to get some mancans:
https://sites.google.com/site/mancans97/scents

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I like the conspiratorial air in the fourth panel.

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so as a secondary to mouseandcat's comment, here is a slightly more put together company producing a very similar thing:

http://www.mandleco.com/

tag-line? "candles on testosterone" .... love it? hate it? looooooove it!

though they don't have a bacon candle, they have a "camp breakfast candle" here:

http://www.mandleco.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=CFBR

"There is nothing like cookin' up breakfast on that early morning campfire! We have canned this beutiful scent of bacon and eggs mixed with campfire smoke that is sure to bring back some good memories." im ok with this.

even as a woman whose not really into regularly scented candles (talk about migraines), this? this is RAD.

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sorry. they do carry a bacon candle. i missed it the first time around. its called "the slab". dude.

http://www.mandleco.com/Bacon_Candle_p/baco.htm

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Hey bacons will be bacons as long as it taste good well
have fun with it. but the paintings are good sounds like
bacon to me. you want more? networking

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I don't think everyone realizes how much time this actually took you. Thanks for sharing it with everyone. I hope it was worth your time. disney world deals

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these pictures are so good.i like to read informative blogs and this blog is also so good and helpful.thanks for taking time to discus this topic..

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This does actually work pretty well if the grease is in a can or glass jar. Regulate the air flow by partly covering the opening with some foil otherwise the flame tends to go nuts and produce a lot of soot. Also straining the grease helps.

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