Bacon Shake - When everything might *not* be better with Bacon

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Ack!

The Bacon Shake, from Jack in the Box, has got to be the *only* thing I can think of that does *not* tasted better with bacon. I mean, I can actually conceive of eating Cardboard with Bacon (mmmm.  Bacon Flavored Cardboard...), but ye gods, there has *got* to be a limit, y'know?

As Brock Keeling of SFist puts it

Wow. That was horrific. [...] While there were no visible chunks or bits of bacon floating in our shake, the sweet treat comes in a solid hue, almost a darker vanilla color. And the taste? A heavy, lingering bland with a touch of smoke that doesn't go away. Instead of offering a variation on salt-sweet, which could have been impressive, Jack in the Box's Bacon Shake hits the senses like smokey maple syrup. And not the good kind that, say, one might have found on their Sunday morning breakfast plate as mom's crunchy bacon mixed with Mrs. Butterworth's viscosity. The cold mound we tried to swallow was too sweet and too lifeless to be considered reasonably tasty in a pinch, or even decent hangover food.
To repeat. Ack!



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