This Kiwi has Created Spreadable BACON

Publish Date
Thursday, 30 June 2016, 12:07PM

Spreadable bacon cooked up in a Papamoa kitchen is taking New Zealand by storm after former truck driver turned barbecue king Mike Jeffries stumbled on a winning idea.

"It's really taken off, I'm quite overwhelmed," he said.

Mr Jeffries was enjoying the hospitality of Americans at a bourbon, beer and barbecue festival last year when a jar of bacon jam grabbed his attention.

It tasted good enough to convince him that he could find a market back home for this seemingly unlikely spread.

Mr Jeffries started experimenting with ingredients including maple syrup, coffee, onions and a generous quantity of bacon.

"It took a few goes, the guy did not give me his recipe."

His bacon jam is handmade in batches of 300 to 400 jars a day - even the labels are painstakingly applied by hand.

Interest has flooded in from all over New Zealand and as far afield as the United States, with the number of suggested uses growing each day.

YUMMMM! 

Read the full story at nzherald.co.nz

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