As we head into summer, men from Key West to Puyallup and La Jolla to Freeport continue to struggle with the same conundrum we face every grilling season: how to create a dessert that celebrates our love of barbecue?? For years, this simple question presaged a heretofore unsolvable dilemma…and then Burger King put its prodigious R&D muscle into untying the Gordian Knot. The product of thousands of man-hours and millions of dollars of innovation and testing? A bacon sundae. Yes, it’s that simple.
Perhaps the single finest bacon-related food product in fast food history, the bacon sundae surely represents the apotheosis of the porcine arts, the dessert American men craved but were afraid to ask for. Checking in with 510 calories, 18 grams of fat, and 61 grams of sugar, Burger King’s bacon sundae won’t exactly be a boon to your waistline. Then again, if you’re ordering one of these homages to food porn, you’re probably wearing your emergency pants, anyway.
This could well turn out to be Burger King’s answer to McDonald’s McRib sandwich- a bacon-flavored shot across Ronald McDonald’s bow, as it were.
Part of BK’s new limited-edition summer menu, the bacon sundae addresses a craving Americans are only beginning to realize that they’ve had all along. Bacon ice cream is not a new idea by any means- Portland’s 50 Licks and Salt and Straw (Really? Brown Bacon and Ale??) have featured to-die-for bacon ice cream of one variation or another for some time. BK just happens to have the resources to spread the love from coast to coast.
Uh…if anyone’s listening: bacon and salted caramel?? Please?? Don’t make me beg…. ;-)
I’m not a fan of soft serve, particularly the sort of artificially-flavored dreck available at too many fast food chains. Still, adding bacon might just be the excuse I need to lower my standards a wee bit. At least temporarily.
Bacon really DOES make everything better….
