Another Tx yokel makes this thing called “pig candy”
Thick cut bacon crusted in brown sugar and cayenne.
OMG!
I like my bacon straight; but that actually sounds very good. Here’s a recipe:
http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2012/01/pig-candy-candied-bacon-grilling.html
I have a paleo “meat candy” recipe. It’s so good. You slit open dates (not all the way in half) and take away the pits. Then you stuff them (overstuff them) with ground precooked bought sausage (like chicken and apple or something). Not raw sausage but the kind that only need warming up, you grind them in the food processor. Then you surround each with a bacon strip. (We have to use turkey bacon and it is plenty good.) then you bake and I’m not home so I can’t remember the time or temp but not long. These things are so unbelievably delicious.