OMG, hookers. Here I am feeling all good about myself for having a healthy (read: non fattening) breakfast of egg whites and a smoothie and what do I click on? Only the sexiest, most luscious hunk of meat to ever parade around these parts. Feast your eyes on: The Bacon Explosion.
Mmmmm, I can hear certain friends of this blog drooling right now – you know who you are.
Yes, that is crispy, crumbly bacon rolling around on a pallet of sausage, being held in place by bacon rebar. Is it wrong that I want to immerse myself in this flavorful, juicy, meat construction? I think not.
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I’m not gonna lie, the neatly crisscrossed pattern makes me think of a delicious, flaky pie crust lattice. Mmmm, pie + bacon. Sorry if I salivate on you.
January 29, 2009 at 11:09 am
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!
Smoky!
Bacon!
Meat log!
Instant aneurysm. That is too much deliciousness to comprehend.
January 29, 2009 at 11:10 am
I knew you would be first, you could smell it, couldn’t you? Yesssssss.
January 29, 2009 at 11:20 am
i’d like to take that finished product sandwich in the background and dip it in syrup! the salty! the sweet! the bread!
this gets an airhump from the younglover.
January 29, 2009 at 11:28 am
Speaking of pie and bacon, have you seen the apple bacon pie? http://www.aldenteblog.com/2008/10/beautiful-cinna.html
Some of my friends prepared a ham wrapped in bacon for NYE. I think there may have been sausage at the center, too, but I can’t remember.
January 29, 2009 at 11:29 am
I am only recently on the bacon train (thanks to nadarine and angie, actually), but OMG GIVE IT. AND SMOTHER IT IN BARBECUE SAUCE.
January 29, 2009 at 11:39 am
i like my bacon completely floppy, and still oinking
January 29, 2009 at 11:47 am
Ohhhh man….a bacon basket roll! I can hear my arteries stopping.
January 29, 2009 at 11:51 am
Forget slicing, I’m just gonna pick it up and eat it like a burrito.
January 29, 2009 at 12:51 pm
@cate: daaaaaaamn, I need to make that pie.
January 29, 2009 at 1:10 pm
Imagine how good the sandwiches would be.
January 29, 2009 at 1:48 pm
This is a thing of beauty. Seriously.
January 29, 2009 at 2:51 pm
Believe it or not guys, I’m just…hmmm. I don’t know how I feel about Italian sausage and bbq sauce.
Yes, I am picky about what meats I put in my mouth.
January 29, 2009 at 2:58 pm
I’m not that excited about sausage, but when added to bacon and bbq sauce, well, I’ll try it.
January 29, 2009 at 3:08 pm
@BAngieB: yeah, me too. sausage is meh for me, but considering the bacon company this is keeping, I would be willing to get to know them both. I even let the BBQ sauce come over, because normally that would have been skipped.
January 29, 2009 at 3:15 pm
OH! It’s bacon time in the T&U household, guys, by the way. If anyone feels like visiting. This includes pancetta.
We also have delicious breakfast sausage.
January 29, 2009 at 4:17 pm
And this is why Kansas City is consistently one of the fattest cities. And we’re proud of that fact.
January 29, 2009 at 4:47 pm
The last two pictures are fine, but nothing that excites me more than meat in general. But the first pic… is carnivore porn. My mouth actually filled with saliva.
I’m going to look at it again.
Sweet Mary and Joseph. That is a fiiiiine hunk of meat.
January 29, 2009 at 5:35 pm
My roommate, when she read the Times piece: “the part where the guy looks at the pile of raw bacon and goes “Hmm, I could weave this into a mat” is basically akin to the moment an apple fell on Newton’s head. Brilliant.”
That sums up how I feel. Well, that, and: GIMME.
January 29, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Pork is a beautiful thing, now give me that bacon log NOW and no one will be harmed!
January 29, 2009 at 8:40 pm
If I was a guy, I would totally jizz in my pants.
Don’t ban me, but if this could jizz, it would jizz cheese. Ok– I will just go ahead and ban myself :-(
January 29, 2009 at 8:57 pm
Mmmmm …. melted Vermont cheddar ….
January 29, 2009 at 9:53 pm
I’m a little disturbed by with the amount of saliva that just filled my mouth. I must have the spouse cook me some bacon and scrapple this weekend (I’d do it myself, but I always overcook them for some reason).
January 29, 2009 at 11:13 pm
My opinion is best summarized thusly:
January 30, 2009 at 6:52 am
I don’t mind any of the ingredients themselves, but the thought of bastardizing a fine italian sausage with BBQ sauce makes me suspicious of this.
January 30, 2009 at 10:31 am
The Domina–I’m a little suspicious, too. And, honestly, the good bacon. I am a purist, though.
Also, I want to let you guys know that I’ve made a bacon mat and bacon bowls before and they’re pretty awesome. I need to get bigger muffin tins, though, so the bowls can hold more fixins.
January 30, 2009 at 10:47 am
@T&U – Bacon bowls? ZOMG, and I thought bread bowls were wonderful things!
January 30, 2009 at 11:23 am
I’m with AYL, give me some syrup to dip this in. Imagine the salty/sweet awesomeness!
January 30, 2009 at 12:23 pm
@T&U: Bacon bowls!!! Sounds delicious!
January 30, 2009 at 4:11 pm
I’d hit that. And then I’d eat it. Which sounds sick, but it’s my life.
January 30, 2009 at 7:34 pm
So my brother and I had a long discussion about this and decided while it would be HEAVENLY on the grill – wouldn’t it be even better to deep fry it?!?!?!
And I was thinking this would make a nice twist on the BLT – either on sourdough bread w/ plenty of mayo (Kraft Real Mayo), or also on Texas Toast! YUMMY!
January 31, 2009 at 1:44 pm
@MsScarlet: you are a woman after my own heart. I have just sent Mr.k outside to heat up the fryer.
January 31, 2009 at 11:35 am
Kadinsky: meet me at the Comet Cafe for baskets o’ bacon, mmmkay?
January 31, 2009 at 1:45 pm
@nadarine: there!
January 31, 2009 at 2:39 pm
Oh, holy CRAP. Veggies look away INDEED. I just threw up a little bit in my mouth. Wowza.
January 31, 2009 at 11:37 pm
i am disgusted, yet intrigued… oh man, i have not eaten pig in a great many years, but i do know how good it tastes. and this image would most certainly give my boy a boner. i swear he was sporting wood when we were watching “Rib Paradise” on the Travel Channel lat week.
January 31, 2009 at 11:43 pm
btw–i’m fairly certain that the spice stuff sprinkled on the woven basket o’ bacon is bacon salt. mmm… bacon salt. baconey AND vegetarian. it’s true! http://www.baconsalt.com. i bought the 4-pack–the hickory is even vegan! nothing is better in split pea soup. or black bean soup. it’s pretty deeelish on popcorn and baked potatoes, too.