Comments on: chicken fried bacon

chicken fried bacon

thirteenkiller — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:23:09 -0800

By: evilangela

evilangela — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:32:02 -0800

Wow. Just wow. I have this incredible craving for a salad now, along with spending an hour on the treadmill. And I don't even think that will alleviate the guilt I've recieved just from watching that.

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:32:38 -0800

Oh that looks so disgusting. Disgustingly GOOD!

By: jonson

jonson — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:33:00 -0800

Good christ almighty... This somehow supercedes the deep fried twinkies even.

By: HuronBob

HuronBob — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:33:41 -0800

someone get me the lard... 12 dozen eggs.... 15 pounds of bleached flour...and a dead pig!

By: clevershark

clevershark — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:33:51 -0800

I'm a fairly big guy myself, and definitely not a vegetarian, but I can't help thinking that this is just plain wrong.

By: thirteenkiller

thirteenkiller — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:34:45 -0800

Needs more salt!

By: MonkeySaltedNuts

MonkeySaltedNuts — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:37:25 -0800

Were I to prepare this (and I'm thinking of doing so cause I like to deep fry), I would pre-cook the bacon almost to the point of crispness so that a lot of the bacon fat would render out. Battering raw bacon just seals in all of the bacon fat.

By: Mister Cheese

Mister Cheese — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:38:33 -0800

Goodness gracious... Eat that stuff regularly is what I call living life on the edge. Ahhh.... to be home again!

By: wfrgms

wfrgms — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:39:49 -0800

Christ why couldn't Borat have gone to this place?

By: ijoshua

ijoshua — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:41:38 -0800

<BeachBoy>Three chins for ev'ry guy!</BeachBoy>

By: Nathanial Hörnblowér

Nathanial Hörnblowér — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:42:34 -0800

Battering raw bacon just seals in all of the bacon fat. You say that like it's a bad thing.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:43:01 -0800

Salds are for wimps. I have added this item to the Things I Must Eat Before I Die list. I have had deepfried twinkies, oreos, and Mars Bars, but this is in the realm of the sublime.

By: grouse

grouse — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:44:16 -0800

I want one!

By: quite unimportant

quite unimportant — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:48:30 -0800

Deep fried bacon I can forgive. But ketchup on a steak (3:13)? That I cannot brook. Fucking philistines.

By: Frank Grimes

Frank Grimes — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:50:48 -0800

I wouldn't mind trying a strip of that, but Mr. Sodolak is not exactly the picture of good health. He's a few more cigarettes and fried meals away from a heart attack. Kudos to the cameraman for getting him silouhetted against the window in the opening shot.

By: ericb

ericb — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:51:52 -0800

Needs more salt! I had the same reaction when the woman said: "This is good. Just needs salt." The trifecta for heart-health: fatty bacon, frying in oil (no trans-fats in New York) and salt! That said, I'd love to try it.

By: grouse

grouse — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:54:49 -0800

You forgot the gravy, ericb.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:56:55 -0800

He's a few more cigarettes and fried meals away from a heart attack. Nonsense. I eat fried foods everyday, smoke two packs a day and drink a six-pak of tallboys every night and I'm going to outlive you all, and still leave a good looking corpse. It's all genetics and attitude. no trans-fats in New York Lousy commies. There'll be an underground network set up within a month.

By: InfidelZombie

InfidelZombie — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:57:38 -0800

Perfect side for a hamburger with a fried egg on top

By: jonmc

jonmc — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:02:30 -0800

Perfect side for a hamburger with a fried egg on top A Texas Burger? I just had one a couple weeks ago at Paul's. with bacon.

By: Doohickie

Doohickie — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:02:34 -0800

One the one hand, that looks genuinely delicious. On the other, I just threw up in my mouth a little.

By: bink

bink — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:03:36 -0800

"We don't use ounces in this place. It's POUNDS." I think I'm in love.

By: owhydididoit

owhydididoit — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:03:49 -0800

I wonder if it makes good brittle.

By: ninjew

ninjew — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:08:35 -0800

Homer: See Marge, I told you they could deep-fry my shirt. Marge:I didn't say they couldn't, I said you *shouldn't*. "We take eighteen ounces of sizzling ground beef, and soak it in rich, creamery butter, then we top it off with bacon, ham, and a fried egg. We call it the Good Morning Burger." Lisa: No, I can't! I can't eat any of them! Homer: Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Lisa, honey, are you saying you're never going to eat any animal again? What about bacon? Lisa: No. Homer: Ham? Lisa: No. Homer: Pork chops? Lisa: Dad! Those all come from the same animal! Homer: [chuckles] Yeah, right, Lisa. A wonderful, magical animal.

By: koeselitz

koeselitz — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:09:15 -0800

I WANT IT NOW.

By: drstein

drstein — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:09:20 -0800

Bacon is mankind's greatest invention. I mean, the wheel was pretty cool.. but it's not as tasty as bacon. I got some smokey bacon cheddar cheese from a store in Minnesota. Mmmm cheese.

By: mygothlaundry

mygothlaundry — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:09:54 -0800

Oh god, I fried stuff like that last weekend and I swear, I nearly died. I don't know which was worse, the bacon wrapped hotdogs or the little debbie swiss cake rolls. It was the worst hangover/food poisoning/stomach bug of my life. I'll never look at a deep fryer again, so help me jebus.

By: shady milkman

shady milkman — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:17:35 -0800

thats just nasty, pure nasty

By: jonmc

jonmc — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:25:39 -0800

I got some smokey bacon cheddar cheese from a store in Minnesota. Dude, grill up a bison burger, pt some of that cheese on then top with some of that chicken fried bacon and a little A1 and serve it on texas toast and we'll have reached gustatory nirvana.

By: frecklefaerie

frecklefaerie — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:26:15 -0800

I had a heartattack at 1:37.

By: Tube

Tube — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:29:16 -0800

Yes! I'd wash it down with a cochicken.

By: kamikazegopher

kamikazegopher — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:31:26 -0800

Mmmmmmm.... Sodolak's. When I was in college near there, we would go because it was the only place that we knew where we could afford a steak dinner. The leftovers would feed us for days. Even though I'm vegetarian now, that still made my mouth water a bit.

By: monocyte

monocyte — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:31:39 -0800

I just threw up a little in my mouth, coated it with egg and flour, and deep fried it in chicken fat.

By: damn dirty ape

damn dirty ape — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:43:00 -0800

Ugh, I couldnt stand the voice over. Its like Rush Limbaugh is back on the pills and is making some side money hosting public-access tv.

By: peeedro

peeedro — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:55:31 -0800

I just threw up a little in my mouth Forget the bacon, I was floored by the shots of the cooks' hands all over the food. Hands on the steak, hands on the onion rings, in the batter, and then in the breading, hands on the bacon, bacon breaded by hand, hands on the fries; all with no gloves. The cooks only use utensils for scooping things out of the fryer and for ladling out to cream gravy. I can understand challenging culinary expectations, but why flaunt health codes so flagrantly?

By: YoBananaBoy

YoBananaBoy — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:58:43 -0800

I loved that show when I was a kid. Great link. Thanks.

By: YoBananaBoy

YoBananaBoy — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 19:02:31 -0800

I can understand challenging culinary expectations, but why flaunt health codes so flagrantly? hehe. You have never been to Texas, have you?

By: sourwookie

sourwookie — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 19:09:04 -0800

I consider bacon a seasoning.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 19:12:15 -0800

I consider it a beverage.

By: rxrfrx

rxrfrx — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 19:20:00 -0800

Genetics and attitude. More specifically, the genetics that don't cause you to develop an enormous pot belly, and the attitude that says "I'm developing an enormous pot belly, time to get some exercise and stop eating bacon with cream gravy."

By: MythMaker

MythMaker — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 19:21:17 -0800

I love that all those Texans eating that crap were fat as hell. Serves them right.

By: peewinkle

peewinkle — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 19:22:28 -0800

I would have two orders for breakfast and those onion rings for desert........ with a bottle of Tobaso.......

By: jonmc

jonmc — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 19:22:33 -0800

More specifically, the genetics that don't cause you to develop an enormous pot belly, and the attitude that says "I'm developing an enormous pot belly, time to get some exercise and stop eating bacon with cream gravy." Thankfully, I take after my old man, who's 61 and potbelly free after a life of meat, potatoes, and cigarettes. And my attitude is that health nuts are gonna feel real stupid sitting in the old folks home dying of nothing (thanks, Redd Foxx), so bring it on.

By: XMLicious

XMLicious — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 19:40:13 -0800

My MeFi brothers, my droogy droogs, I am leaving on a business trip to Houston on Sunday and I will make a pilgrimage to this Temple of Cholesterol, to this Pagoda of Arterial Plaque. If I do not return, follow me and avenge my death. MythMaker: I love that all those Texans eating that crap were fat as hell. Serves them right. Holy sanctimonious vilifying schadenfreude, Batman. Serves them right for what - being Texan?

By: Greg Nog

Greg Nog — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 19:41:06 -0800

Oh my goodness. Time to fire up the hot oil and give this a shot. Yes, it may be unhealthy and greasy and artery-clogging, but on the other hand it is GOD DAMNED DEEP-FRIED BACON.

By: MonkeySaltedNuts

MonkeySaltedNuts — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 20:27:43 -0800

#Greg Nog: it is GOD DAMNED DEEP-FRIED BACON. I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but it is common for cooks to deep fry raw bacon if no cooked bacon is available For example, I once spent a long stint in the Blue Cube at Onizuka Air Force Station in Sunny Vale, Ca. Once off shift I was very hungry so I headed to the nearby Officers Club. I had drank so much coffee that the only thing that might coexist in my stomach was a BLT. The cook said "no problem" and dropped 3 rashers into the deep-fryer. The BLT wasn't bad though I wished the oil had been more recently changed. PS: to the NSA and terrorist organazations: The only secrets I saw there were numbers - designating numbers and frequencies. Since my job there had nothing to do with either I doubt that I remembered any of them a few days after I left or many year later like today.

By: Ranucci

Ranucci — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 20:49:09 -0800

I can understand challenging culinary expectations, but why flaunt health codes so flagrantly? You obviously don't watch cooking shows -- the high-end chefs and cooks they show there are always touching, prodding, manhandling and generally fondling every item on their three-star menus with out the benefit of gloves. It's almost as if the more you pay for food, the more the cook touches it with bare hands. If you want food untouched by human hands, hit the value menu at your local fast-food emporium.

By: Pollomacho

Pollomacho — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 20:56:13 -0800

You just said three of my fovorite words! Along with Mayonnaise, Butter and Cheese. Combine all six and I will dine/die a happy, happy man.

By: mistermoore

mistermoore — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 20:59:09 -0800

So it's fat, dipped in fat, and fried in fat. I LOVE IT

By: wsg

wsg — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 21:37:12 -0800

Having cooked in many restaurants, I will go as far as to say that most food that you've eaten in public has been touched by human hands, hopefully clean ones. Cook much? If you cook, you touch food. That's not the least of it. Read Bourdain's first book. You'll never eat out again.

By: madamjujujive

madamjujujive — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 22:53:08 -0800

*touches peedro's food*

By: Mister Cheese

Mister Cheese — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:19:32 -0800

Oh, hey, I just realized that this place is about twenty minutes away from my sister's university. I've got to go and try it out... I don't know if my sister would be up to it though. Maybe I'll rope my best friend in to going. Or maybe I'll spend Christmas with my family instead of chasing down fried bacon dreams.

By: Jon-o

Jon-o — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 03:45:13 -0800

That's the kind of food that makes you feel like someone put a zip-tie around your heart.

By: jfuller

jfuller — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 04:52:28 -0800

So, has anyone come up with a way to batter-fry beer? Get to work, inventors.

By: rxrfrx

rxrfrx — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 04:54:00 -0800

jfuller, they'd probably do it the same way they do "deep-fried Coke," which is to just fry some flavored batter and then douse it in the relevant liquid after taking it out of the fryer.

By: konolia

konolia — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 05:21:17 -0800

Just this morning my husband wondered what it would be like to hug me if i were scented with bacon instead of cologne. Nobody better show him this link!

By: patricio

patricio — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 06:46:22 -0800

rxrfrx: you're right

By: jonp72

jonp72 — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 06:50:50 -0800

Moe: You can flash-fry a buffalo in thirty seconds with one of those things. Homer: But I want it now!

By: Mayor West

Mayor West — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 06:53:15 -0800

The video didn't quite hit the gag reflex, but the AskMe mygothlaundry linked to certainly put it over the top. Deep fried CADBURY CREME EGGS?! Also, jonmc, your burger idea intrigues me. Maybe batter the whole affair end fry it up again?

By: Espoo2

Espoo2 — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 10:38:19 -0800

OH MY GOD that looks delicious. I live probably 2 hours from snook. scary place.... but this is worth it.

By: webnrrd2k

webnrrd2k — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 12:36:01 -0800

I like the ultimate burger idea, but it should have Pickapepper sauce instead of A1.

By: thirteenkiller

thirteenkiller — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 12:44:54 -0800

XMLicious, you must post a full report. Please.

By: XMLicious

XMLicious — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 22:02:31 -0800

Plane ticket, Boston to Houston... $500 Rental Car.................................... $200 Tank of Gas.................................... $20 Chicken-fried Bacon... dee-licious! Actually, it was disturbing how similar in flavor and texture it was to Doritos or other modern industrial snackcraft... makes me wonder what's in 'em. I think that CFB is what people close their eyes and pretend pork rinds taste like.

By: Pollomacho

Pollomacho — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 23:29:04 -0800

Oh, no, I close my eyes and imagine things taste like pork rinds mmm, chicharones.......