Vosges Haut-Chocolat

Sometimes you eat a snack that changes everything, a snack that stops you cold and makes you realize that nothing is ever going to be the same.

Satin-sheen dark milk chocolate in an elegantly thin bar, the surface of the bar smooth and unbroken, with no hint of pork. Bite down, though, and bits of delicious bacon are released, each crunch like a tiny breakfast star in a rich chocolate sky. Pinprick moments of saltiness burst across the deeper field of sweetness, burst and then fall, dissolve, fade.

This is no crude creation of chocolate-covered meat—no, Mo's Bacon Bar is a fabulous synthesis of sublime flavors, an unearthly crossbreed that poses more questions than it answers. If chocolate and bacon can be mated to produce viable offspring, then what's next? People and horses?  Lions and eagles? Snakes with feathers?

As the box says: “Really, what doesn't taste better with bacon?”

Nothing. Everything. We don't know anymore. Our world no longer makes sense. Thank you, Vosges Haut-Cocolat, for showing us the light in the bacon.