OMG, stop sending me links to articles about the Bacon Explosion. It’s not like it wasn’t covered in the NY Times, for peetsake.

Clearly, those BBQ addicts did a great job of coming up with a BBQ(-ish) dish that’s so over the top, no one could ignore it. But am I a fan of the Bacon Explosion? Am I drooling, just waiting for the chance to have people over so I can try it myself. No way. I’m not a fan. Not at all. Let me see if I can lay out why:

1. At first thought, the idea of combining foods that are individually good and then cooking them together seems brilliant. 1 + 1 = 2, right? Not in this case. All pork products are not created equal. Far from it. I love bacon. I love sausage. I’ll eat them both on the same plate with eggs and hash browns. But do I want a bacon wrapped sausage? Nope. These are two things that are best enjoyed separately. Turducken also seems like a fun, tasty idea from afar. Take three good things (or four, depending on your use of sausage), and shove them inside of each other. Yum? Nope. Have you ever tried a turducken? It sucks. It’s not good. It ruins all that’s right and good about a turkey or a duck or a chicken cooked right.
2. There’s an even bigger problem, though. Bacon is one of the world’s most perfect foods. Good bacon is a delicate balance of salty, smoky, porky flavors. The lean and the fat on a nice crisp strip of bacon make for the perfect textural balance. So, why would you want to take all that, wrap it around a hunk of sausage, and shove it back in the smoker for a few hours? Balance gone. Flavor gone. Texture gone. It’s wrong. WRONG.

Anyway. I can’t speak for Andrew, but for me, I’ve seen the Bacon Explosion, and I hope I never see it again.

OMG, it’s a video how-to:

(via BoingBoing)