Two of my co-workers sent me a link today to this story about Squeez Bacon, a ketchup-like condiment made out of 100 percent cooked bacon. The article says, "Each serving is as healthy as real bacon, and equivalent to 4 premium slices of bacon! You can put it on sandwiches, pizza, pastas, bacon, soups, pies, eat it hot or cold (warm Squeez Bacon® on toasted rye is to die for), substitute it for bacon in your recipes, or even eat it right out of the tube like we do!"

My first thought: Ewww. My second thought: People need to stop jumping on the "everything bacon!" craze and move on to a new ingredient. My third thought: I should request a bottle to sample, because, well...I wonder what it tastes like?

So I wrote to the folks at ThinkGeek.com, who were selling these squeezable bottles of bacony goodness for $7.99, and requested a sample. I was sure it would take a few days for them to get back to me; they had probably been innundated with requests for this new product. To my surprise, I got a reply almost immediately:

"Thanks for contacting us! As much as we'd love to have it featured (and it pains me to say this), the Squeez Bacon is one of our April Fool's Day joke products :) If there's anything else you're interested in, please let me know!!"

Um...what? I had just told two other people about this product. My co-worker (the one who had originally sent me the e-mail) wanted a bottle for her boyfriend. And it was all just a joke??? Who even remembered what day of the week it was, anyway?

Ok, so, they got me. They got me good. I admit it -- I fell for it. But I mean, come on -- with all the crazy bacon products out there these days, Squeez Bacon isn't far-fetched at all. In fact, I'm sure someone is working on a recipe for this right now...

And by the way -- this link (which I also got today) isn't related to food at all, and you might think it's an April Fool's Day joke, but it's not. At least, I'm almost positive it's not.

Photo courtesy of ThinkGeek.com