Bacon for your burger Millions of Americans who create homemade cheeseburgers resplendent in their ravishing roundness are doubtless weary of having them marred with simply straight strips of bacon. No more! Now they can celebrate the arrival of round bacon from Patrick Cudahy.
Make no mistake: This isn't Canadian bacon (nor even Mexican bacon); it's regular good-old U.S. of A. bacon, shaped by some marvel of modern science into disks (each of which appears to consist somehow of about 1 1/2 strips of bacon). And not only that, it's fully cooked, ready to heat and crisp up in just seconds in the microwave.
Mr. Tidbit notes that, whereas the boxes of most brands of straight-sliced precooked bacon in the refrigerated case contain 15 slices (or 12 thick slices) totaling 2.1 ounces, the eight disks in a box of Patrick Cudahy Bacon in the Round weigh just 1.8 ounces.
Mr. Tidbit was unable to find a store that carries both the 2.1-ounce package of Patrick Cudahy's regular precooked bacon and the 1.8-ounce package of Bacon in the Round, but he would bet that they have the same retail price. If so, Bacon in the Round costs 17 percent more per ounce. That's not much, considering the circular smiles of delight it will put on the round faces of rotund bacon-cheeseburger lovers coast to coast.
Desserty yogurt Mr. Tidbit has been advised that there are three new flavors of Yoplait Light yogurt -- strawberry shortcake, raspberry cheesecake and pineapple upside-down cake.
These days, when we are knee-deep in new food choices more distinctive than merely additional flavors of old food choices, Mr. Tidbit doesn't normally bother mentioning such things. But having recently discussed the nomenclature flaw in Pillsbury Toaster Strudel's new Boston Cream Pie flavor, he feels he must point out that not only is no cake present in any of the three new Yoplait Light varieties, but that the pineapple upside-down cake flavor is right-side up.
AL SICHERMAN
