Why yes that flower does taste like a battery. Photo: Sara Bonisteel

Day Two of the Fancy Food Show didn't disappoint. With hundreds of thousands of products on display, you're bound to miss a few items on your first walk through of the show at the Javits Center on Manhattan's West Side.

As Slashfood strolled the aisles on Monday afternoon, we discovered a better bacon candy bar, pondered the correct way to grow a shallot and finally tried a pepquiño (and another edible oddity, the above pictured Sechuan button).

After the jump, learn about some of our favorites from Monday's walk through the show. Sundays's favorites can be found here.


Nueske's Applewood Smoked Bacon
There's a reason this picked up a sofi award. Midwesterners have known about this smoky, juicy Wisconsin rasher for years ... maybe now these transplants can get some on the coasts. Nueske's new Summer Sausage isn't bad either.

Wafels & Dinges De Kompleet Wafel Kit
We've long been fans of this Belgian waffle truck in New York ... and soon the rest of the nation can taste what we've been loving. Wafels & Dinges De Kompleet Wafel Kit serves up 15 Brussels-style waffles with humor. "Step 5: Eat. You should already know how to do this. Really you should."

Roth Käse Moody Blue
Blue cheese ... we love it. Smoke ... also love. Combine the two and you get Roth Käse's Moody Blue, a smoked blue that at first blush might sound odd, but tastes like you've entered the pearly gates of fromage heaven.

Marukome Miso Yaki
White miso is the base in this new marinade for fish and seafood. On a piece of salmon we tried, it created a lush umami that would keep us coming back for more.

Caramelized Onion and Blood Orange Confit
Au Printemps Gourmet/Brickstone Fine Foods picked up a sofi for its take on the blood orange (which seems to be everyone's flavor this year). The confit makes a delicious pairing with brie and crackers and created a mob scene at its booth within the Canada section.

Koeze Company Cream-Nut Crunchy Natural Peanut Butter
This Grand Rapids, Mich., peanut butter company puts the focus on the peanuts. That means you'll find a crunchy PB without the cloying sugar found in other brands. Thanks to Zingerman's for helping put them on the nationwide map.

Vosges Mo's Dark Bacon Bar
There was something about this Chicago chocolate boutique's milk chocolate Bacon Bar that didn't sit well with the palate. But they've found a winner in Mo's Bacon Bar 2.0 -- the dark chocolate edition -- which balances tastily with the applewood-smoked bacon and alderwood-smoked salt inside.

Southern Spray Basters
This west Louisiana company wins on packaging alone for its basting blends -- original, jalapeño butter and zesty garlic/herb. All three come in Windex-like spray bottles. Unsettling and fun all at the same time.

Boska Holland Cheese Barbeclette
We'll admit it: We've never thought of doing a summertime raclette on the grill, but Boska Holland's new gadget had us pondering the "barbeclette." Will it catch on stateside? Time will tell.

Bissinger's Porcini Mushroom Truffles
There is a fungus in that chocolate truffle. The St. Louis-based chocolatier has created a savory after-dinner treat or pairing for wine with the addition of the porcini mushroom. It's distinct in that orb of chocolate, but not so overpowering as to become offensive to the sweet.

French Shallots
A nice man representing Brittany's shallot farmers spent ages letting us know that the proper way to grow one is from an existing bulb, NOT from the seed. He had us convinced at "l'échalote."

Koppert Cress Pepquiños and Sechuan Buttons
After all the hullaballoo about the tiny melon known as the pepquiño, Slashfood finally got to taste one and found it to be as crunchy, light and refreshing as a cucumber but packed within a fruit the size of a grape tomato. What really did a number on our palate, though, was the Sechuan button, which gives you the same sort sensation that you'd get from licking a battery (oh, don't judge, you know as a kid you licked a battery too!).

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