A few weeks ago I received a Maple Bacon flavored hard candy shot glass. It looked horrible…
Therefore, we had to try it.
The shot glass itself was a little slimy. It seemed to have a slight coating on the outside so that it didn’t stick to the plastic wrap it came in. That wasn’t promising. I made sure to have a paper towel handy because this was already a messy experiment. This slimy and somewhat sticky shot glass definitely had the maple smell. You couldn’t smell any bacon because, well, the bits of “bacon” were stuck inside the candy. Also, who knows what those bits are actually made of…
The Experiment: We filled the shot glass with plain UV Vodka. The goal was to see how the alcohol would affect the shot glass and vice versa. Would the alcohol eat away the candy? Would any flavor get infused into the vodka? Would pieces of “bacon” be floating in your drink?
Yeah, the questions just kept getting worse… So, we filled up the shot glass and let it sit for a bit while we geeked out and discussed D&D. We kept checking on it to see how the shot glass was holding up.
Would the alcohol eat away the candy? Answer: Yes. You can see the line that the vodka made in the shot glass. It probably sat there for at least half an hour to an hour. We weren’t really paying attention for two reason. 1) It looks gross. 2) D&D.
So… Once we finally got the courage to try it, we realized how utterly horrible and terrifying this mini monstrosity is. The shot glass is a gag gift. Really. Every person who looks at this thing has the same reaction. A look of disgust followed by an involuntary gag at the thought of how it might taste. We did manage to get a video of the test, but technical difficulties are preventing me from uploading that at the moment. If I get it working, then I’ll add it here.
The Test: We had filled the shot glass with a full shot worth of vodka. Eldritch and I drank half a shot each. I, unfortunately, got to go first as it was my gift.
Would any flavor get infused into the vodka? Answer: Sadly, yes. First off, it was plain vodka. Was. There was an unusual flavor added in. We couldn’t really pinpoint what it tasted like, but our best guess was that it came from the base candy ingredients. Possibly the corn syrup? There was absolutely no maple or bacon flavoring in the vodka. Whatever it was, it tasted bad. It turned perfectly good vodka into… Wtf?
Would pieces of “bacon” be floating in your drink? Answer: Thankfully no. As you can see from these pictures, there are chunks of “bacon” in the glass. These things aren’t listed in the ingredients, and that scares me. However, none of these pieces broke off into the vodka before we downed that shot. If there had been, we wouldn’t have drank it. Just… No.
The Results: Ew.
All in all, it was just gross. Not puke inducing gross, but still… Ew. We can check that off our list as something we’ve tried. We will never try that again though. We had a laugh, and decided to push the experiment a bit more. We still wanted to see how long it would take alcohol to eat through the glass, so we poured half a shot worth of vodka in the glass and let it sit overnight.
The Second Results: The vodka ate away a lot of the candy. You can see how clear it got in the pictures below. It did eat away a few holes in the glass too. This got even more disgusting when we started moving the shot glass around and realized how much the vodka was oozing. Oozing. The corn syrup and whatever other mystery ingredients had mutated the vodka and turned it into a horrible Macon sludge.
And no, we did not try it.
There are other candy shot glasses out there. We’ve seen peppermint before, and that sounds a thousand times better than the Macon. We also have ideas for making our own, but… That’s an experiment for another time. 
