The Templeton Rye Pork Project is about making your bacon taste like whiskey. Good idea, or awful execution of science?

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Here's the deal. You can essentially request a pig that will taste like whiskey because of a process whereby they eat the dry distillery grain during the raising process. It's all overseen by Nick Berry from Iowa State University and only features 25 pigs. Via here, here's what you get from…