Posted on 05/15/2013 6:19:15 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
How many times have you looked at pigs in a blanket with a side-eyed glance, secretly wishing those blankets were made of bacon — pigs in a pig blanket, if you will? Maybe often, perhaps never, but fans of all things pork are surely rejoicing at the news that Oscar Mayer is debuting bacon hot dogs this summer.
Yes, you read that correctly — hot dogs with the flavor of bacon. No need to wrap your pork in pork by hand, in other words.
“No one knows bacon like Oscar Mayer,” Jared Baker, director of Oscar Mayer hot dogs *, said in a statement, via Yahoo! Shine. “We know Americans love bacon, and we know they love hot dogs, so it seemed like the perfect time for us to introduce our first hot dog made with bacon.”
Kraft Foods says the bacon dogs will be on store shelves in time for the Memorial Day grilling season kickoff , and will be available around the country. Other hot dog iterations are also in the works, including a gluten-free chicken-breast hot dog and a larger version of the Smokies smoked sausages.
Of course, these hot dogs aren’t just ground up bacon (sigh) — the ingredients tout no artificial flavors, fillers or by-products, but include mechanically separated turkey, chicken, and pork as well as bacon pieces.
*Full disclosure: Hot dog director is my dream job. Or perhaps Deputy Chief of Cheese.
But is it Halal?
yes it is eat all you want
Praise mohammod!
There is nothing bacon can’t do.
Nothing.
yes, Muslim outreach. Sold at NASA snackbar
yummmmm
I am going to wear on on my next plane trip.
It’s like the Fourth of July ... but NOW WITH BACON!
I don’t remember where I got the recipe, but when my kids were younger (over 30 years ago at least), I used to split open a hot dog, put pieces of American cheese in the middle, then wrap it in bacon, and cook it in the oven until the bacon was done.
I think this is a big plus, because the flavorings used in hot dogs, bologna and bratwurst get kind of loathsome after a while.
The reason bacon is so tasty is because it has some of the highest concentration of “savory” flavor in it. Savory is the “fifth flavor”, along with sweet, salty, sour and bitter.
While there is some savory in most meat, bacon has about half a dozen different kinds. Comparatively, imagine how good salty food would be if you hadn’t had any for months.
Oddly enough, savory is canceled out by sweetness, so it only works in foods that are not sweet.
now that is a home wrecker
I used to split open a hot dog, put pieces of American cheese in the middle, then wrap it in bacon, and cook it in the oven until the bacon was done.
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That’s not a recipe, it’s a life shortener. Where can I get these dogs.
'Pork bellies... I knew it, I knew it.'
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