Barbecue is good for us.

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.

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