It’s Furious Balancing

Sometime between my last blog post and this blog post, there was this spate of Internet Craziness — Testosterone-Fueled Internet Craziness — about Barbecued Bacon Logs.

It all started with a post on a BBQ blog a few days before Christmas.  Someone had contacted the bloggers about a recipe for barbecued bacon, and the bloggers rose to the occasion.  In spades.

I first found out about it via The New York Times online edition,¹ but a  Google search² I did today had over half a million hits.  The Bacon Explosion has turned into a full-blown Internet meme and now appears on YouTube and Wikipedia.

I know several guys that had the “I Must Make This” response to the recipe, The Husband among them.  I figured that it would be an amusing thing to do over a lazy winter weekend. Why not?  There’s a lot of text out there on the ‘Net about this recipe, so I don’t hope to add anything to the dialogue.  I do, however, have some WIP and FO photos.  Pork Pr0n.  It was darned tasty.³

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1. On my Google home page, where I have the “most emailed” Times articles widget. [↩]
2. English-language pages only, exact phrase “bacon explosion.”  The hits increased to almost 3 million when I accepted pages in any language. [↩]
3. Tasty, but something to eat in small slices.  Very salty, and not as greasy as I imagined. [↩]

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