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If you’re looking for your ice cream fix, we know the place to go – The Old Lyme Ice Cream Shoppe LLC.But before you head on out looking for your typical vanilla and chocolate ice cream, be warned. The menu includes beer-infused premium ice cream.Yes, you read that right -- beer-infused premium ice cream! Seems like best of both worlds. The Old Lyme Ice Cream Shoppe is now serving The Brewer’s Cow beer-infused premium ice cream, made with the best 16 percent butterfat cream that New England has to offer, according to Jason Conroy owner of the ice cream parlor.

Not too long ago, a reader came to us with the idea that we should write a bacon book. You know, a book about bacon. We tossed around a few ideas that all centered around bacon and books and how to combine them into a book about bacon but we haven’t nailed down a bacon book concept just yet. Today we received an email from Boss Hog over at BaconFreak.com announcing that he’s released the first edition of his Bacon Cookbook. What better book about bacon could there be than a bacon book that helps you cook the meat candy? According to the web site (with the oh-so-catchy URL of BaconCookbook.com) they’ve got recipes from some renowned chefs that will help you get your bacon fix for breakfast, lunch, dinner, appetizers, and even bacon desserts. We got a chance to peek at the bacon cookbook ahead of time and were impressed with the quality of the bacon recipes included in the book. Don’t be surprised if you see a couple examples of bacon dishes we test out here at Bacon Today. We’re planning to cook up a few of the meals to give them the official Bacon Today taste test. The Bacon Freak Bacon Cookbook is available in both downloadable PDF and paperback formats. Head on over to BaconCookbook.com and get your copy today!

his strange map was produced by Floating Sheep, a website dedicated to “mapping and analyzing user generated Google Map placemarks”. In this instance, the ovine analysts of cybergeography were so startled by this remarkably differentiated result that they wanted to check it against information a bit more official than the data provided by Google Maps (1) . According to the 2007 Census, there are on average 1.52 bars (2) for every 10,000 people in the US. Those numbers are a lot higher in the ‘red’ states: Wyoming (3.40), Nebraska (3.68), Iowa (3.73), South Dakota (4.73), Wisconsin (5.88), Montana (6.34) and North Dakota, which, with an average of 6.54 bars per 10,000 inhabitants apparently is the top “party state” in the Union. Next time you want to take your lawnmower to a party, you know in which direction to head.

It took LEGO artist Matija Grguric 7 months and 15,000 bricks to recreate Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece Fallingwater. It’s currently on display at a museum in Zageb, Croatia.

Denmark is said to be build from a mixture of mud, mountains of LEGO bricks, beer and bacon by brave but insane Roman vikings at the beginning of Insomnian times. The delicious smell of bacon attracted reindeer from Finland, who inbreed with the Roman vikings creating a race of superhuman cold-blooded vikings - called Valhallans. After conquering what they thought was the world at least twice most vikings became bored and thus moved to Iceland to seek new challenges e.g. writing the source code for the ultimate operating system (UOS).

Bacon Flavored Syrup - 375 ml bottle   $6.95        - 3-Pack (3 x 375 ml bottle)     $6.35 per bottle - SAVE $1.80!   $19.05        - 6-Pack (6 x 375 ml bottle)     $5.95 per bottle - SAVE $6.00!   $35.70        Bacon enthusiasts will appreciate this salty, sweet syrup packed with bacon's authentic smoky, meaty, flavor. Torani Bacon syrup adds savory bacon flavor to cocktails, lattes, sauces and more. Just add 1/2-1 oz. of syrup to a 6-8 oz. beverage, and enjoy this innovative flavor from Torani. *** All the bottles sold here are the same premium glass bottles used at your favorite café, restaurant

Bacon Pancakes The folks over at This is Freaking Ridiculous posted this picture which will undoubtedly cause bacon lovers around the world to collectively smack their foreheads and say “why didn’t I think of that?” So bust out the pancake batter and fry up some bacon and have yourself a hearty breakfast (or you could just buy pancake mix infused with bacon, but hey to each their own).

Sniff, sniff…what’s that enchanting aroma? Why, it’s the bacon candle of course! A brand new product on the market that’s sure to light up the lives and perk up the senses of any bacon lover,

missing brick here and chipped stone there show the normal marks of wear and tear on the structures and streets of a city, but filling them in with multi-colored LEGO bricks makes them stand out in sharp relief with their surroundings – especially in a place like Berlin.

The No. 2 burger chain in the world might be hoping to become No. 1 with the help of a little booze. Burger King will soon begin offering moderately-priced beer at select locations in the U.S., according to a story in The New York Daily News. Earlier this year, the chain already opened its first so-called Whopper Bar in Orlando, Fla.: a restaurant with a smaller footprint than a regular Burger King joint and limited menu options. That location does not yet serve beer. But a Whopper Bar that is about to launch in Miami Beach, Fla. will. Additional Whopper Bars, all featuring beer on the menu, might be in the works for New York, Las Vegas and Los Angeles.

If your child comes back from the shops with a lamb chop instead of the the breakfast rashers you requested, don’t be too surprised. More than a quarter of teenagers believe bacon comes from sheep, not pigs.

3. People will do anything for Beer Seriously, they will. During Prohibition in America people took to drinking hair tonic and posing as members of the clergy to get alcohol. Sometimes people come together on a large scale in the never ending quest for free beer. In Australia on Easter weekend in 2001, a beer truck blew a tire and overturned into a river. The driver was able to escape but his cargo sank to the bottom of the river. Hearing about the accident, people gathered at the scene, some in full scuba gear, and spent the entire weekend recovering the beer. One man managed to get 400 bottles. Did they return it to the company? Of course not. Despite a warning from police that what they were doing was theft, the divers took off with the whole lot.

7. The World’s Oldest Brewery It’s a terrible stereotype that Germans are all huge beer drinkers. However, their country of 80 million did until just a few years ago have more breweries than the 300 million strong USA. They also lay claim to the oldest brewery. Located in Bavaria, Weihenstephan Abbey has been making beer since 1040. That’s almost 1000 years of continuous beer production. While it hasn’t been a religious house in 200 years the brewery is still in operation.

On Lego Pandora, Everyone Gets Along Just Fine I'd like to give a tiny Golden Globe to all the fine people who put together these incredibly detailed Avatar Lego dioramas. That's my kind of 3D.