“Bacon is really hot right now,” Wing Zone marketing director Dan Corrigan said in a phone interview. “There are certain people out there who are bacon fanatics, and I myself am one of them.”
(If you're a bacon enthusiast, be sure to check out my colleague Amelia Robinson's story about this weekend's BaconFest at the Fraze).
In developing the bacon-flavored wing sauce, “We wanted to take advantage of something no one else was doing,” Corrigan said. Although the sauce has bacon flavoring, there is no pork in the sauce, he said. The company’s marketing slogan for the new sauce is, “The doors to BBQ Heaven open majestically with the taste of bacon.”
The Mango Fire sauce packs a punch of spicy heat and was the result of a Facebook contest reader suggestion, Corrigan said, while the Cinnamon Maple flavor is designed to evoke the flavors of chicken and waffles.
The new wing-sauce flavors became available Monday in the Dayton area, Corrigan said.
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