£6 bacon chocolate sells out

The world’s first bacon chocolate bar has proved to be very popular with British customers as Selfridges, the only UK stockist, sold its entire stock of the £5.99 bar within two days.

Live and Let Fry!

A bacon sarnie is 007’s breakfast favourite as Daniel Craig insisted on a bacon butty every morning whilst filming Quantum of Solace.  During the twelve weeks of filming for the latest Bond blockbuster, a courier firm was signed up to deliver four van loads of bacon and white bread from the UK to Italy.

Britain's favourite sandwiches

The BLT sandwich has topped a poll of Brit’s favourite sandwiches.  The combination of bacon, lettuce and tomato proved to be more popular than egg and cress; chicken and bacon and prawns and salad.

Nation's top sandwich flavours

The taste of a bacon sandwich has been narrowly beaten by chocolate as the nation’s favourite flavour.  Freshly baked bread, roast lamb, fresh strawberries, cheese, mint and champagne all featured in the top ten of a survey of the nation’s top tastes.

When giant pigs walked the earth

Hog-like creatures survived a mass extinction and walked the earth before dinosaurs ruled the world.  Around 260 million years ago, during the “Age of Porcine” prehistoric pigs, which were similar in size to modern pigs with snouts and small tusks, flourished for around a million years in a “golden age” of no predators.

Pigasso and Van Trough

Talented piglets in Devon, England, have found a new use for their trotters!

Two little pigs from the village of Buckfastleigh made paintings with their snouts, sponges, and trotters.

The colourful masterpieces then fetched an amazing £150! Their owner called them “little Pigassos” – although the paint splattered canvases more closely resembled the style of American abstract artist, Jackson Pollock.

Baker in trouble for ‘telling porkies’

A baker from Britain has been ordered to rename her novelty pig tarts - because they don't contain any pork. 

Val Temple of Sgt Bun Bakery in Dorset, England, has also been told by Trading Standards officers that her popular Paradise Slice has to be reclassified as it does not come from paradise.
A spokesman for Dorset County Council's Trading Standards said, "Food must be properly described so consumers can tell what it is."
Supporters of the bakery have started a petition to save the pig tarts.

Pigs in disguise!

Thailand’s Sriracha Zoo, renowned for its tiger-breeding program, employs a unique technique to speed up the growth of tiger cubs.

The zoo, based in the Sriracha District in eastern Chonburi Province, uses pig milk suckled direct from a domestic sow by the cubs themselves!

The zoo’s success with this innovative approach shows that tiger cubs thrive on pigs’ milk, with much faster growth rates than if raised on tiger milk alone. Since 1997, when the zoo began raising tigers this way, 300 Bengali tigers are now reported to have ‘graduated’ from the breeding program.

Can bacon cure problems of the sole?

A British Skin Foundation dermatologist questioned the truth of old wives’ tales which claim to get rid of warts and veruccas.

Raw bacon is one of the many home remedies supposedly used as a cure for the annoying problem of warts or veruccas, which are caused by strains of the human papilloma virus.

Dr Jane Sterling said: “Sometimes your immune system just wakes up and gets rid of the virus and that might coincide with the time you rub a wart with raw bacon.”