Everything is better with bacon? Apparently so, at least in New York's Baconery where everything from  from simple cookies to gold laden chocolate bacon bars are on the menu.  Because after all, you love chocolate and you love bacon and you probably didn’t even know that eating gold can be good for you but now you can test all these theories at once.

The true test of your curiosity has arrived: gilded, chocolate covered bacon. That's right, 23k gold chocolate bacon is a real thing .

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Describes by Wesley Klein at the New York food store Baconery, tagline "Bacon meets Bakery. says:

“Like a mad scientist, I spent months in the kitchen with breakfast chefs, pastry chefs, and more, until we stumbled upon the exact formula for infusing these two ingredients into the perfect culinary combination writes Klein, referring to the marriage of sweet treats and savory bacon."

Klein’s gold bacon combines Nueske's cherrywood-smoked bacon, Guittard semisweet dark chocolate and 23-karat edible gold flakes. The gilded dessert goes for $39.99 a pack and is available for order online at Baconery.

Now you may not know that gold has long been thought to have medicinal properties, Wise Geek describes Gold therapy:

Gold therapy is generally recognized as the process of treating the body with gold, through compounds known as gold salts, to help deal with specific conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis. Aurotherapy and chrysotherapy are other names for this kind of process. Gold therapy is built on a long human tradition of revering and prizing this precious metal.

As one of the heaviest known elements, gold has a lot of intrinsic value on world markets. Its popular use as currency in prior times demonstrates the collective value that gold has had, and continues to have, for the human community. With gold therapy, even more value is added to this element as a potential solution for healing.

Not to accuse this of being health food but who knows can’t hurt might help.

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