Is 'Squeez Bacon' a Real Product?
Origin On April 1, 2009 — April Fools’ Day — the geek and gaming culture-focused retail company ThinkGeek released a product that they claimed was called “Vilhelm Lillefläsk’s Squeez Bacon.” The site even created an involved history of the allegedly real product, which they also claimed had a 12-year shelf life: A few years after WWII ended, a young man working in a small restaurant in Sweden developed a new way to process bacon. By precooking it and blending it in a special way, he was able to make a fully cooked 100% bacon paste that could be squeezed from a tube. Knowing he ...