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Bacon Blog Wars is on

Posted on May 21, 2010May 21, 2010 By Andrew Thaler 13 Comments on Bacon Blog Wars is on
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There’s been far too much Science around here lately, and not nearly as much Southern Fried.

Scicurious of the excellent Neurotopia stepped into a hornet’s nest when she declared:

Chocolate covered bacon is a SIN AGAINST DELICIOUSNESS

@scicurious

To which I responded:

blasphemy against one bacon is blasphemy against all!

@sfriedscientist

How could she know the fury that statement would unleash? Well, for starters, this blog is title Southern Fried Science. But then, there are these images to consider:

A 500-gallon heating oil tank in the process of becoming the Legendary Joe-B-Q

“The Shiffman” a hotdog served in a twinkie, a custom made by Pauly Dogs for WhySharksMatter.

So yeah, we take out excessively unhealthy and classically southern foods to their absurd extremes. Jason Goldman has charted the history of this epic at The Thoughtful Animal.

So choose your side, but choose wisely. And remember, our team has bacon.

Follow your combatants on Twitter:

The Divine and Glorious Army of the King of all Meats – @sfriedscientist, @jgold85, @palmd, @whysharksmatter, @bomaiblat, @hectocotyli, @doc_becca, @ebamignone, @_colins_, @nerdychristie

The Morally Questionable Anti-Baconites – @scicurious,@kzelnio, the traitor @hectocotyli, @doctorzen

TGIF.

~Southern Fried Scientist

Update: PalMD lays it down

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13 thoughts on “Bacon Blog Wars is on”

  1. Jason R says:
    May 21, 2010 at 3:44 pm

    Narwhal. Bacon. Bacon Narwhal. What else is there to say?

  2. Scicurious says:
    May 21, 2010 at 3:51 pm

    I ain’t sayin’ bacon isn’t delicious. I’m saying in double negatives that it is. BUT. It is not delicious in all its forms. Not all unhealthy foods were meant to be combined! Think of beer flavored ice cream, think of chocolate covered bacon and DESPAIR.

    Sci is a purist and prefers her bacon unadulterated.

  3. WhySharksMatter says:
    May 21, 2010 at 4:26 pm

    Chocolate covered bacon is amazing. A bakery near my house has dark chocolate bacon brownies and they will rock your socks off.

  4. Scicurious says:
    May 21, 2010 at 4:40 pm

    Sci’s socks stay firmly on in the presence of chocolate covered bacon.

  5. WhySharksMatter says:
    May 21, 2010 at 4:45 pm

    Sci must have some sticky socks and should consider washing them every once in a while. I’m kind of a lay expert on sticky socks ever since the trenchfoot incident of 2004…

  6. ebamignone says:
    May 21, 2010 at 5:09 pm

    also, beer flavored ice cream is delicious if you go to the right place. I would recommend Big Dipper’s Coldsmoke ice cream. Next time you’re in Missoula, MT.

  7. Dr Becca says:
    May 21, 2010 at 5:12 pm

    Sci you just reminded me that last year, I went to the Brooklyn Bacon Takedown, a bacon-themed cooking contest. The best thing there was maple-bacon ice cream. A-MAZING.

  8. Sam says:
    May 21, 2010 at 5:20 pm

    If you want the ultimate in “deep fried (blank) on a stick” come to the Wisconsin State Fair. Deep fried oreos on a stick? Yep. Deep fried macaroni and cheese on a stick? You betcha. Deep fried twinkie on a stick? Absolutely.

    Don’t think chocolate covered bacon can get any more ridiculous? Well, Wisconsin put it on a stick. Boo. Yah.

  9. WhySharksMatter says:
    May 21, 2010 at 5:35 pm

    The Wisconsin State Fair has nothing on the North Carolina state fair. Deep fried giant turkey legs. Deep fried bacon cheeseburgers. Deep fried coke. Deep fried oreos. Mmmm… I’m hungry.

  10. Sam says:
    May 21, 2010 at 5:41 pm

    We have deep fried ostrich legs, I believe (they come with the stick, haha). And deep fried peanut butter and jelly on a stick. And a deep fried belgian waffle on a stick.

  11. becca says:
    May 21, 2010 at 5:53 pm

    This is not a battle of good vs evil, or bacon vs. no bacon. This is a battle for the heart and SOUL of BACON, which was NOT meant to be combined with chocolate. Anyone who is a TRUE lover of either bacon OR chocolate should find the combination obscene. Obscenely undelicious and disgusting.

  12. Jason G. Goldman says:
    May 21, 2010 at 6:38 pm

    How do you deep fry coke?

  13. WhySharksMatter says:
    May 22, 2010 at 1:30 am

    They mix coke in with funnel cake batter pre-frying. It actually wasn’t very good, but that’s not the point.

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