Oh, so true.
Bacon
More Bacon Goodness!
This bit of bacon’y goodness was brought to my attention today and, as with most things bacon related, it impressed me enough to pass it along… and secretly file it away for future use… like Sunday morning breakfast.
It’s from a book called This is Why You’re Fat… which somehow seems appropriate.
(via Pharyngula)
Bacon… only better!
I’ve seen some pretty awesome bacon recipes before and some awesome things done with bacon and even some awesome bacon art, but I just saw a recipe posted by a Facebook friend (thanks, Neece!) and it has absolutely got to be the most awesome edible thing ever done with bacon.
Think I’m kidding? I don’t kid when it comes to bacon.
I present… with all due glorious fanfare… Chicken Fried Bacon …with gravy!
Yes. You read that right.
This is bacon, covered in seasoned flour, dredged in an egg wash (which includes cream), rolled in crackers… and fried. Then it’s dipped in a gravy that’s made with butter, cream, and chicken broth (and some spices). So let’s see… that’s bacon, egg, cream, butter, more cream, and chicken broth. Oh… and fried in oil.
I’m having a cholesterol-gasm just thinking about it (that’s a good thing, in case you’re wondering).
The Bacon Lance
Okay, so it’s not like I (and the enlightened contingent of humanity) don’t know that bacon isn’t the world’s most awesome meat, but until today, even I didn’t fully comprehend the heights of awesomeness that bacon could reach.
Now I know.
Behold, the bacon lance… a torch made of bacon that burns so hot it can cut through a steel pan. Yes, you read that correctly. It’s a cutting torch… made of bacon.
Ummm… wow. You can watch the video below (or at the link above) of the bacon lance’s construction.
My favorite quote: “It turns out that ordinary American bacon does not have the structural integrity that’s necessary for this applicaiton so I’m using an engineering grade of bacon which is known as prosciutto.”
“Engineering grade”… R0XX0R!
Sadly, at the end of the article, there’s a warning which says, “Theodore Gray is trained in lab safety. Don’t try this at home.”
So much for my weekend plans.
The Prime Donut Rule
Today being Fastnacht Day, a generous coworker bought some fastnachts to share with everyone, which is a commendable act… almost as commendable as providing free bacon, but that’s another story.
I glanced into one of the fastnacht bags to pick out a bit of doughy, sugary goodness and saw, much to my chagrin, a knife and a third of a fastnacht next to the whole ones. Someone had actually gone to the trouble of cutting a fastnacht into three pieces. Count ’em! Three!
It’s outrageous!
Donuts (and fastnachts by relation) are whole entities. They should not be torn, cut, bent, broken, poked, or sliced by any utensil other than human teeth (pet treats notwithstanding). If you can eat half a donut, you can eat a whole donut and it really won’t make that much of a difference to your diet. If, for some unearthly reason, you feel that you cannot somehow manage to scarf down an entire entity of glazed or sugary or iced or jelly-filled goodness, you should simply refrain from partaking at all… or eat what you can and dispose of the remainder.
Donuts are art. Splitting up a donut is therefore destruction of art and should not be tolerated. It’s as close as you can come to blasphemy without getting all biblical! Eat it or don’t! I think I’ll make a bumper sticker out of that.
Next thing you know, people are going to start suggesting that we make fake bacon out of turkey.
What’s the world coming to!?
Almost Cooler than Bacon
Forget the jet ski or the jet boat or any of that so-last-week silliness. This is what I need.
(Thanks to Infidelicacy for bringing this to my attention)
Please Pass the Lipitor
Bacon makes everything better… except cholesterol and blood pressure. Overlooking that (negligible) downside for the time being, what do you get when you mix 2 pounds of thick-cut bacon, 2 pounds of Italian sausage, and some barbecue sauce? You get the Bacon Explosion… bacon and sausage wrapped up and barbecued for an artery-clogging feast fit for a 500-pound king.
Now just serve this other recipe as a side dish, season it all with a few shakes of Lipitor, and you’ve got yourself a party!
When it comes right down to it, you can’t beat the pig for providing humanity with the largest variety of indisputably succulent meat. I mean, seriously.
And bacon is, of course, the supreme meat.
Bacon Nirvana
Wow.
