Talk:Bacon vodka

A fact from Bacon vodka appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 31 May 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that bacon vodka (bottle pictured) is vodka infused with bacon flavor, created based on the concept of a "meat and potatoes" pairing?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2009/May.

Wikipedia

Food and drink: Bacon Low‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Food and drink, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of food and drink related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Food and drinkWikipedia:WikiProject Food and drinkTemplate:WikiProject Food and drinkFood and drink articles

Low

This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Related taskforces:
/
	This article is within the scope of the Bacon task force, a project which is currently considered to be inactive.

Food and Drink task list:

To edit this page, select here

Here are some tasks you can do for WikiProject Food and drink:

Help bring these Top Importance articles currently B Status or below up to GA status: Agaricus bisporus (i.e. mushroom), Beef, Bread, Curry, Drink, Food, Ham and eggs, Soy sauce, Sushi, Yogurt
Bring these Top Importance articles currently at GA status up to FA status: Beer, French cuisine, Sugar
Bring these High Importance articles currently at GA status up to FA status: Apple, Burger King, Fish
Participate in project-related deletion discussions.
Delete unrelated trivia sections found in articles. Please review WP:Trivia and WP:Handling trivia to learn how to do this.
Add the {{WikiProject Food and drink}} project banner to food and drink related articles and content to help bring them to the attention of members. For a complete list of banners for WikiProject Food and drink and its child projects, select here.
Provide photographs and images for Category:Wikipedia requested images of food
Consider joining this project's Assessment task force. List any project ideas in this section

Note: These lists are transcluded from the project's tasks pages.

Some changes

I've recast the article to be a little more neutral and a little less repetitious, which meant a little reorganization.

Also, Black Rock's web page refers to its bacon vodka as "Bakon Vodka" in text, not to "BAKONVODKA" or "BAKON VODKA", which appears in their wordmark.

Bongo matic 03:52, 27 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Whatever. Just kidding. I'm throwing some stuff back in. Simultaneous editing is cool. Thanks for the help. Law_{type! snype?} 04:02, 27 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Resources

Raphael, JR (May 26, 2009). "Thirsty? Try Bakon, the Bacon-Flavored Vodka". The Inquisitr. Retrieved May 27, 2009.
K, Alan (April 27, 2009). "Bakon Vodka "Pure. Refreshing. Bacon."". Mutineer Magazine. Retrieved May 27, 2009.

Has some comments about Pepys and Locke about infused ales that are worth following up on.

Bongo matic 03:57, 27 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I used the first one. The second is just ripped from the Bakon website. Law_{type! snype?} 06:54, 27 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know

...that bacon vodka has been used to make bacon martinis, the Bacon Russian, a marinade for meat, and a version of the Bloody Mary called the "Bakon Mary"? ChildofMidnight (talk) 05:14, 27 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I was wondering why there are two separate articles one for bacon martini and one for bacon vodka in the "did You know" section on the same day and they both tell roughly the same story??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.108.7.197 (talk) 10:54, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, from article creation to front page in four days!

Wow... the article was created on May 27th 2009 and made it to the front page on May 31st. That MUST mean it's part of an important subject. I look forward to reading all the other "x-flavoured vodka" articles which must exist. 174.0.231.238 (talk) 12:37, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hahaha, I see your point. SPARTAN-J024^(Talk) 12:43, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I generally find sarcasm works best when it's done with some subtlety. Law_{type! snype?} 13:18, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

yes, I read WP:Sarcasm ...but seriously... a WHOLE ARTICLE on Bacon Vodka? There's a Vodka infusion article and a Vodka article with a "Flavoring" section where the Bacon vodka might have been merged in. I would understand if there were a bunch of x-flavoured vodka articles, then this article would make an interesting addition to the grouping. Oh well... Thomas Dzubin (talk) 15:32, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Containing the information in this article in the Vodka article, or even the vodka infusion article, would raise serious concerns over undue weight. As far as the need/ desirability of other Vodka type articles, I don't see any problem with creating them if the subjects meet our inclusion guidelines. This is a pageless encyclopedia.

There is now a maple bacon donut article, and I've antipated objections from those pointing out that this is "merely" a type of donut. But it's a notable type and the extent of the content would overwhelm the main donut article. And as far as why there aren't articles on Boston cremes, jelly donuts, and other types? I think that's an excellent question. And what about jelly donut vodka?

Certainly the appropriateness of merging content needs to be considered. But for a counter example: Bacon salt and baconnaise were merged into the bacon article. And I think it was the wrong move as there's now too much content on these loosely related subjects (bacon salt contains no bacon). So there you go. And finally, sarcasm is best served up in heaps, humor with subtlety and irony needs to be dripping and gooey. ChildofMidnight (talk) 18:41, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well, in the defense of all that is this article, BAKON - the brand, is notable enough to have its own article so there's really no point in merging it to bacon when Bakon would be the appropriate place. Law_{type! snype?} 02:37, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Most topics—in the world, not just in Wikipedia—are fundamentally sub-topics of other subjects. And as a rule, some sub-topics are more notable than others. This sub-topic of "vodka" or "vodka infusions" unambiguously meets the notability guidelines—any beef with the topic's inclusion is either WP:IDONTLIKEIT or belongs at WT:NOTE (or at beef vodka). There are probably many notable vodka infusions that are not currently covered in detail. The correct place for them is possibly in separate articles or in articles on categories (fruit infusions, spice infusions, or whatnot). If someone suggests a merger of this content with content on other notable meat-infused vodkas, that would be worth contemplating seriously. Bongo matic 02:51, 1 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Allusion to this article in popular culture

In MaryJanice Davidson's novel, Undead and Unfinished (2010, Berkley Sensation), on page 41, is the following:

"Here she was pulling out a bottle - ugh, chili pepper-flavored vodka. Like a drink made from potatoes wasn't yuck-o enough.

"Nope, she didn't want pepper-flavored. Back into the freezer it went. Here came cinnamon. Somewhat better, I s'pose, but nope, she didn't want that one, either. Here came - aw, no! Bacon! Bacon-flavored vodka! (I swear to God I am not making this up. Wikipedia it if you don't believe me.)"

So this article has been immortalized in contemporary vampire fiction. LadyofShalott 03:10, 11 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

As the creator, I'd be more impressed if it was in True Blood. the_undertow ^talk 23:03, 11 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, well; sorry, I can't do anything about that. I just reported what I found. :) LadyofShalott 01:41, 13 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Bacon vodka. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20090529143225/http://www.nwcn.com/statenews/washington/stories/NW_052409WAB-bacon-vodka-SW.129e5d8e.html to http://www.nwcn.com/statenews/washington/stories/NW_052409WAB-bacon-vodka-SW.129e5d8e.html

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at {{Sourcecheck}}).

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 22:07, 23 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Undue Weight

Bacon vodka has been around for many years. Devoting 2/3 of the article to a single brand that's only been around since 2009 is a violation of Wikipedia's policy on undue weight, as well as their policy on product advertising/promotion; indeed, it reads more like an infomercial for Bakon Vodka than an encyclopedia article. Unless someone can provide compelling reasons to keep it the way it is, I'm going to cut the Bakon Vodka parts down to a couple of paragraphs.DoctorEric (talk) 15:18, 6 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Methinks someone working for Bakon keeps coming back and adding material from their website. Just pulled a bunch again, and added (brief) info about another brand just to spread the love. Though it's arguable whether Bakon should even be mentioned, given that it uses chemical flavorings and doesn't contain a molecule of actual bacon? It's vegetarian, after all (maybe even vegan, if there's no refined sugar added) 148.4.201.116 (talk) 17:11, 14 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]