Shut Up and Start Clogging My Arteries Already!

The hot dog is perhaps the greatest instrument mankind has ever devised for delivering ridiculous amounts of deliciousness in unspeakably deadly packages. The kogo, a Korean invention that takes the quintessentially-American corn dog and swaddles it with the world-beloved French fry, is the latest in a proud line of tasty, greasy harbingers of an early death (h/t Paul).

The Last Appetite / Via Rocket News 24

The Last Appetite / Via Rocket News 24

Here’s the real test, though: Is the kogo as tasty as Urban Cookery’s self-evidently delicious deep fried bacon wrapped hot dogs? Continue reading

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There Can Be Only One (Bacon)

I’m all for creativity in food, but this is just horrifying (h/t Jason):

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I’d like to hear what Ron Swanson has to say regarding bacon made from jicama or eggplant:

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Bacon Emoji

Inspired by Austin Java’s tweet to me (after I praised their bacon), I thought I’d see if anyone has invented a bacon emoji. I have no use for such a thing whatsoever, but how could humanity not benefit from such knowledge?

Anyway, all paeans to my inevitable historical legacy aside, I found emojis (or emoticons, or whatever) for bacon and eggs: Bacon 🍳

Please go on about your business.

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This Week in WTF, October 11, 2013

earl53 from morguefile.com– Proving that there can be too much of a good thing, a man in Sweden was knocked unconscious when a cart loaded with bacon fell on him. In all, the man was hit with 500 to 600 kilos (that’s about 1,102 to  1,323 pounds, for those who don’t use the metric system or regularly handle drugs) of bacon. I will admit it: that is too much bacon.

– A man in San Antonio allegedly faked his own kidnapping so that he could go “party with  friends.” His wife contacted police the night of Tuesday, October 8 to report that two masked men came into their home and took her husband at gunpoint. After a helicopter joined about a dozen deputies in the search, he showed back up at his house. He has been charged with filing a false police report, which is a fun twist since it was his wife who actually made the report, albeit innocently.

Photo credit: earl53 from morguefile.com.

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Bacon Jumps the Shark

Our love of bacon may have finally jumped the shark.

Ford Graphics unveiled last week a bacon-wrap design that is now available for the [Ford Fiesta], “in anticipation of International Bacon Day,” on August 31st, says its website.

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I am not knocking bacon in any way, mind you. I have moral compunction a about eating it, given what we know about pigs’ intelligence and all, but dammit, bacon is meat used to enhance the flavor of other meat. It’s just that literally wrapping your car in figurative bacon might be a bridge too far.

It’s good, but can we all stop acting like it is the end-all, be-all of anything food-related? Must we really engulf our cars with a giant bacon likeness just to show everyone that we are more bacon-loving than they are? Can’t we all just concede that bacon is delicious and never speak of it again? No? Fine. Whatever.

I already thought bacon milkshakes were a bit much, but never underestimate the power of bacon.

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Happy International Bacon Day!

I don’t have time to post anything substantive, but I wanted to wish the internet a very happy International Bacon Day.

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