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Category Archives: Impracticalities

And The Jam Played On

April 17, 2012

I’d never tasted bacon jam. And, truth be told, I wasn’t all that interested in it, no matter how much …

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Bacon Bowls — No, Not The Ones From KFC

April 6, 2012

Thanks to an eagle-eyed P&P operative for sending this picture of Bacon Bowls. Fortunately, these bear little resemblance to the …

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Con: Bacon Grease Doesn’t Make Refried Beans Taste Better

March 29, 2012

[Ed. note: At P&P, we welcome dissenting (i.e., wrong) views on the pork and whiskey lifestyle — especially from spouses …

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A Tribute To The Late Great Earl Scruggs (1924-2012)

March 29, 2012

Everything Tastes Better Soaked In Booze

March 27, 2012

There we were last night, enjoying some drinks at our local BBQ-themed Mos Eisley Cantina (complete with a Jabba-The-Hutt bar-tenderness …

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Camp Bacon … Seriously!

March 22, 2012

Screw going to rock-and-roll camp, fat camp, Sun Valley billionaire’s camp, or any other summer camp purportedly targeted to adults …

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Gettin’ Down With O.P.P.

March 21, 2012

After a weekend rush to buy Redbreast pot-still Irish whiskey (a major keeper, by the way), and an impulse purchase …

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Sampling ‘Lucky Peach’

March 14, 2012

With a cover like that, how could I not buy this magazine? I had, in fact, resisted the siren call …

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Bacon-Infused Whiskey: Part 2

March 10, 2012

Bump in the road, the first: After a few hours in the freezer, the fat rose to the top and …

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Bacon-Infused Whiskey: Part 1

March 10, 2012

For the inaugural post of a site celebrating the unadulterated joys of pork and spirits, we really had no other …

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For anyone whose spine tingles at the thought of slipping that first strand of meat off a freshly smoked pork butt or inhaling the pungent fermentation of a soon-to-be-barreled batch of whiskey, this site needs no explanation. Better yet, the person who assumes that the only thing more glorious would be to smoke a butt with a used whiskey barrel, well, all we can say is keep reading ... MORE

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