Day 16: Bacon-wrapped hot dogs
That’s right, bacon-wrapped hot dogs. I’ve grilled hot dogs on the grill before, and of course everyone likes bacon, but it had never occurred to me to combine the two until I read this article in LA Weekly about busts on people illegally selling bacon-wrapped hot dogs from unlicensed carts in Los Angeles. Ours didn’t come out exactly like this or this, because all we had to go on was the phrase “bacon-wrapped hot dogs”. One trip to the store later — to buy bacon and hot dogs — and we were ready to go. I got thick-cut bacon, which, judging by those photos, was perhaps not the best choice. They still came out great though!
I used half-toothpicks to hold the bacon on on each end, which I removed after grilling. We had gotten out the usual condiments but these came out so good that we ended up not using any at all. I’ve of course had fried bacon lots of times, but grilled bacon is something entirely different. Is there anything that bacon can’t improve?
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Answer: NO. There is nothing that bacon cannot improve.
This has made me SO hungry. I used to live in L.A. and would get those bacon dogs from the illegal carts after concerts at the Wiltern and the Greek and just about every time I went downtown to buy fabric and trims.
Yours look absolutely delicious.
I can attest that these were monumentally delicious. I have a feeling our summer will be filled with bacon-wrapped evil hot dogs!