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Monkey

Bacon-scented underwear? It's enough to put you off your breakfast

Uncooked bacon rashers
Do the pants smell of cooked or uncooked bacon? Photograph: Derek Croucher/Alamy

Ping! Into Monkey’s inbox pops the most unusual press release of the week for Bacon Scented Underwear™, which the release assures us is “the world’s first underwear that looks and smells like bacon”.

The PR blurb for what sounds like a hoax TV show stunt goes on: “Marrying the ultimate in comfort and cured meat, J&D’s Bacon Scented Underwear represents the gold standard of meat-scented luxury undergarments.

“Each pair is hand crafted in the USA to offer the support of briefs, the freedom of boxers and the smell of breakfast cooking in your pants. You really can have it all.” And a pack of dogs following wherever you go presumably.

Monkey called to check its veracity but has not heard a … wait for it … sausage back.

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