Bacon Explosion recipe is most popular on the web

The Bacon Explosion - a recipe for a 5,000 calorie barbeque dish - has become one of the most popular meal ideas in the world after being posted in a blog.

It is such an internet hit that the blog on which it features, www.bbqaddicts.com, has attracted more than 500,000 page views in the past month. Its creators, Jason Day, 27, and Aaron Chronister, 32, are now famous as the men who came up with the ultimate route to "pork nirvana".

Bacon Explosion fanclubs have sprung up on Facebook, a video of one family attempting the recipe - and accidentally setting it on fire - has received 50,000 hits on YouTube, and a picture of the meal in all its glory has graced the New York Times.

Day and Chronister, from Kansas City, compete in barbeque cook-offs as the Burnt Finger BBQ team and came up with the delicacy after being challenged on Twitter to create the ultimate bacon recipe. They christened it Bacon Explosion: The BBQ Sausage Recipe of all Recipes.

The Bacon Explosion contains 5,000 calories and a mind-boggling 500 grams of fat, prompting one commenter to joke: "They should make drive-through angioplasty, it would make this much easier."

The ingredients list is short:

2 pounds thick cut bacon

2 pounds Italian sausage meat

1 jar of your favourite barbeque sauce

1 jar of your favourite barbeque rub/seasoning

Construction begins with what its inventors call a "5x5 bacon weave" of interlocking rashers. After coating them with a generous helping of barbeque seasoning, the next step is to layer two pounds of sausage meat on top of the bacon to create a patty.

Next, cover the raw sausage meat with fried bacon - soft or crispy, depending on personal preference - chopped or crumbled into small pieces. The chefs advise: "Note - it's okay, and encouraged, to snack on these pieces while you're chopping/crumbling. But keep in mind that once those bacon morsels touch the raw sausage, you'll need to resist all temptations to nibble. This can and will be difficult, but hospital trips are no fun, so stay strong."

Drizzle barbeque sauce over the top of the cooked bacon, sprinkle with more barbeque seasoning and the roll into a giant, sausage-shaped monster. One final dusting of seasoning, and the construction is ready to be smoked on the barbeque. Cooking time varies but should take around one hour for each inch of thickness.

Once cooked, the Bacon Explosion is basted with more barbeque sauce ("Sweet sauces are loaded with sugars, so they'll give your fatty a nice glossy finish.")

Slice into rounds to serve.

Day and Chronister explained: "It's a variation of what's called a 'fatty' in the barbeque community. We took it to the extreme." They said of the internet interest: "It started out on Twitter and from there it just went everywhere. Political blogs picked it up for some reason - Republicans like meat."

Source: telegraph

Wife killed for 'single' Facebook status

A British man who murdered his wife after becoming enraged when she changed her relationship status on Facebook to "single" has been jailed for at least 18 years.

Edward Richardson, 41, stabbed wife Sarah, 26, to death in a "frenzied and brutal" attack at her parents' home in Biddulph, central England, last May after she altered her profile on the Internet social networking site.

The couple had been living apart since the previous month, said Fiona Cortese, a spokeswoman for the Crown Prosecution Service, which is responsible for prosecuting cases in England and Wales.

"Richardson became enraged when Sarah changed her marital status on Facebook to single and decided to go and see her as she was not responding to his (text) messages," Cortese said.

"He gained entry by breaking the front door window and made his way into the property.

"Once inside, he found Sarah in her bedroom and subjected her to a frenzied and brutal attack with a knife and then attempted to take his own life."

Sarah Richardson's parents Beryl and Alan Boote said they were left "devastated" by her murder after the verdict at Stafford Crown Court, central England, on Thursday.

"We hope that Richardson will be an old man before he's ever allowed out of prison," they said.

Detective Inspector Andy Wall, who worked on the case, added: "She had decided that her marriage to Edward Richardson was over but this was clearly something he could not accept."

Source & Picture : news.com

Uruguay minister posts picture of herself in the shower on Facebook

A Facebook photo showing Uruguay's interior minister in the shower has scandalised opposition leaders, who reacted by branding her an "exhibitionist".

Daisy Tourne posted the snapshot on her Facebook profile page above the caption, "there's nothing more natural than a woman in the shower," according to Montevideo newspaper El Pais.

The photo, reproduced on El Pais' website, shows only Tourne's hands and laughing face beneath running water.

But ather than posting critical messages on her Facebook "wall", opposition leaders went the newspaper with their criticism.

"I think it's in very bad taste that the minister exposes herself so intimately," former Vice President Luis Hierro Lopez told El Pais. "Ministers have to be more austere, modest — above all the Minister of the Interior," who commands the police force.

Politician Jose Amorin called the photo "frivolous."

Ms Tourne, 57, responded on her page on the popular social networking site, saying the photo was not made available publicly or intended to be erotic. She said it was taken in a shower used to rinse off sand after a visit to the beach, El Pais said.

The newspaper reported that ruling party lawmaker Victor Semproni backed Ms Tourne, commenting below the picture: "I'm thinking about taking a photo of myself in the shower, but a full body shot."

Facebook has attracted more than 140 million users worldwide since it began in 2004.

Source : telegraph
Picture from : dailymail