The New Bacon

You can add bacon to just about anything and it makes it better. Cheeseburger to bacon cheeseburger is the easiet example. Hokie Girl showed my bacon chocolate chip cookies that h as to be good..anyway I have been trying to stay busy and came across a BBQ article. Real BBQ only comes from north Carolina, the eastern half and it is chopped pork with a vinegar sauce in sandwich form. i was just reading Alan Richman's article about BBQ from NC and it got me thinking.

The first time I had pulled pork was at my friend's house and his mom was from NC. She made this pulled pork sandwhich that knocked me out. She slightly toasted the bun with a hint of butter and piled on the pulled pork. From that point barbecue places sprung up everywhere...Red Hot and Blue Comes to mind. even going to school up north I found BBQ from guys from NC.

Anyway, the pulled pork sandwich is awesome but I was intrigued to read in his article about a place that added a crispy piece of pig skin to the sandwich. Oh damn that might make the best sandwich even better. Imagine all that pulled pork goodiness with a layer of crispy skin damn!

You know crispy skin might be the next bacon, meaning you add crispy skin to anything and it is going to make it better a la bacon. Grilled sea bass with crispy pig skin yummy, peking duck with both duck and pig skin...yes that is heaven. Anwyay I hope this innovation catches on.