Bacon apocolypse

[Ian Kovtunovich]

I was picking up a breakfast sammich at my favorite food cart this morning (Brunch Box here in Portland; two eggs, cheddar, and bacon on their homemade multigrain bread, since you asked), and as I walked up, the cook was lifting up his spatula off the griddle. It's a huge spatula, probably 10" long, and it is covered stem to stern with bacon. Bacon, bacon, bacon. He picked up a couple more spatulas-full as I waited for my sandwich, and I jokingly asked if all that was for me. I realized, though, that with a pound of bacon for breakfast and a 32oz cup of good, strong coffee, that I could destroy the world, or at least tear the city down with my bare hands. I started hollering "BACOOOON!" in my best heavy metal growl, and envisioned what I could only call the bacon apocolypse.

It was a good way to start the day.

BACON APOCOLYPSE!

[tnumrych]

BACON APOCALYPSE sounds like a title of a heavy metal song. Someone should get on that.

[Ian Kovtunovich]

Hellz yeah! I would listen to that shit.

[homerj742]

Sounds like something my old band would write...

[Ian Kovtunovich]

Sounds like something my old band would write...

One of them Scandinavian-type pork metal bands, was it? Upside-down pork chops on the album cover?

[gamedog]

I am going to duplicate that sammich EXACTLY as you described it, complete with a 1 lb. package of Kunzler bacon as soon as I get home tonight. I'll make sure I have Emperor or Darkthorne, or perhaps even Burzum playing whilst I'm cooking/eating. I might even have to have two.

[jameson]

You should submit Bacon Apocalypse to Dethklok. Sounds fitting.

[Ian Kovtunovich]

BACOOOOOOOON!
BACOOOOOOOON!
BAAA...
COOOOOOOOOOOOON!
BA! CON! A! POC! O! LYYYYYYYYPSE!

Had another bacon breakfast sammy this mornin'. Alas, they weren't griddling the entire pig's worth of bacon, but it was still good. As I chased it with my third cup of coffee, I thought I could feel a faint twinge of fatty, nitrate-o-licious, bare-handed destructo-power coursing through my veins and firing off various combat-related muscle fibers.

[Evan]

The best bacon I ever had was in Prague, Czech Republic. Man that was good stuff.

[Ian Kovtunovich]

The best bacon I ever had was in Prague, Czech Republic. Man that was good stuff.

The Euros don't fuck around. Food, wine, beer, socialized healthcare, sexy cars...I'm sure the bacon is first-rate.

[knkavo]

I like buying whole pieces of bacon and slicing off 1 cm thick chunks and frying them in butter.

http://www.formaggiokitchen.com/shop/images/house%20made%20bacon.jpg

[tnumrych]

Damn it Knkavo, I just tried eating my monitor.

[knkavo]

Damn it Knkavo, I just tried eating my monitor.

And while we're on the subject, is there any greater food in the world than roast pork belly?

http://dinnerdiary.org/wp-content/roast-pork-belly.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3022/3030956859_61ac0d949c_o.jpg

Oooooh the hunger pangs... just try convincing the wife to cook this.

There is no other solution, I will have to do it myself in my wood oven this weekend.

(Anyone who has the wherewithal to get a wood-oven built on their property, DO IT!)

[Ian Kovtunovich]

Daaaamn...wood-oven pork belly sounds awesome. There is a superb wood oven pizza place here in Portland; blows the regular shit out of the water. I wonder if a petition would convince them to add assorted meats to their repertoire...