"There is: bacon ice cream; bacon-infused vodka; deep-fried bacon; chocolate-dipped bacon; bacon-wrapped hot dogs filled with cheese; brioche bread pudding smothered in bacon sauce; hard-boiled eggs coated in mayonnaise encased in bacon – called, appropriately, the ‘heart attack snack’; bacon salt; bacon doughnuts, cupcakes and cookies; bacon mints; ‘baconnaise’, which Jon Stewart described as ‘for people who want to get heart disease but are too lazy to actually make bacon’; Wendy’s ‘Baconnator’ – six strips of bacon mounded atop a half-pound cheeseburger – which sold 25 million in its first eight weeks; and the outlandish ‘bacon explosion’ – a barbecued meat brick composed of 2 pounds of bacon wrapped around 2 pounds of sausage."