The Bacon Explosion hits the NYT!

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By DAMON DARLIN
Published: January 27, 2009
FOR a nation seeking unity, a recipe has swept the Internet that seems to unite conservatives and liberals, gun owners and foodies, carnivores and ... well, not vegetarians and health fanatics.

This recipe is the Bacon Explosion, modestly called by its inventors “the BBQ Sausage Recipe of all Recipes.” The instructions for constructing this massive torpedo-shaped amalgamation of two pounds of bacon woven through and around two pounds of sausage and slathered in barbecue sauce first appeared last month on the Web site of a team of Kansas City competition barbecuers. They say a diverse collection of well over 16,000 Web sites have linked to the recipe, celebrating, or sometimes scolding, its excessiveness. A fresh audience could be ready to discover it on Super Bowl Sunday.

Where once homegrown recipes were disseminated in Ann Landers columns or Junior League cookbooks, new media have changed — and greatly accelerated — the path to popularity. Few recipes have cruised down this path as fast or as far as the Bacon Explosion, and this turns out to be no accident. One of its inventors works as an Internet marketer, and had a sophisticated understanding of how the latest tools of promotion could be applied to a four-pound roll of pork.

more:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/28/dining/28bacon.html

[DS1]

1. The amount of grease in that would make me purge it

sorry, LynzM

hell, just the other day some chicken fingers from a Chinese place had me :puke:

[SidneyCarton]

2. Agreed.

And I love bacon. But that is the best example I've ever seen of too much of a good thing.

eeew.

[Dangerously Amused]

12. Psssst.

Chicken don't have fingers. :scared:

[DS1]

13. WHAT?

[Dangerously Amused]

15. Heh.

Poor LynzM, though. I hope she doesn't see this. x(

[sarge43]

3. Just open a major artery and shove in a handful of lard.

Less expensive, no prep or cooking time involved and kills you within 24 hours rather than waiting for years.

Loves me some bacon, but jeebus. :puke:

[DS1]

6. You could order that as a last meal and cheat the state out of their death penalty

[sarge43]

16. Or a gaudy way to commit suicide. n/t

[flvegan]

4. You've gotta be kidding me.

[Swede]

5. Wow,that looks tastey.

I'd definately dig into that.

[MilesColtrane]

7. When they eventually scrape the plaque out of your arteries in the future,...

...make sure to ask them to save it up.

It makes a great bacon-ey roue!

[Monk06]

8. You could buy a 26 lb Chinook Salmon for the price of that roll of grease

[petronius]

9. I really really want to try that, but I'd need about a dozen friends to share it with

I wonder if it can be modified down to a two-serving version?

[CollegeStudent01]

10. I think I'm in love

I gotta try that.

[Bertha Venation]

11. My nephew would eat it.

He ate a pound of roast beef at dinner the other night. The boy likes him some meat.

[fizzgig]

14. i feel a bit ill looking at that

and i love bacon as much as the next person

[kedrys]

17. I never thought I'd ever say this, but

there is evidently such a thing as "too much bacon". :wow: