Depressing claymation video reveals the horror of turning pigs to pork

You know how we all jokingly but sort of seriously say we don’t want to know how the wonderful tubular meat hot dog glue sausage is made? This claymation video of the life of a gestation crate pig completely ruins that because it reveals how awful pigs are treated before they’re turned into pork. It’s a video that’s somehow more powerful because it smartly uses clay to show you how terrible the whole process is instead of shocking you with bloody gorey imagery.

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Best Bacon Cheese Sandwich is Fully Atkins-Compliant

Who doesn’t love bacon and cheese together? Yeah, it’s not exactly the healthiest of food combinations, but it sure is tasty. So if you’re interested in cutting right to the chase, and don’t want to be bothered with that pesky bread, lettuce or tomato, then here’s an idea for you…

bacon weave sandwich

What you’re looking at is the epic Bacon Weave grilled cheese sandwich. The guys over at DudeFoods created this low-carb, but artery-clogging wonder by carefully weaving a grid of crispy bacon together in place of toast. In the middle – a layer of melty american cheese. Et voilà! Perfection. The trick to the sandwich is pre-cooking the bacon and getting it crispy before nuking the layer of cheese in the middle.

Sure, holding bacon in your hands like this will probably leave your fingers pretty greasy, but that’s more for you (or more likely your dog) to lick off later.

[via Foodbeast]


This Trotter-Shaped Bench Looks Good Enough to Eat [Art]

There are few things more pleasant in life than having a nice comfortable sit down. Apart, perhaps, from pork. So why not combine the two? More »