A similar treatment is just to put some flour in a brown paper bag with some salt and pepper, put your bacon strips in there and shake them around to coat, and then just fry it up in a skillet like you would normal bacon.

It comes out with a nice crispy coating, and you don't have to go through the trouble of deep-frying it. I'm not saying special occasions wouldn't call for the full chicken-fried with cream gravy treatment, just that the above method is easier for everyday use.

It's the gravy that really makes it genius, though.

Hey Apo, if you ever make it up to NYC (not implying that you never have, just I mean if you do so while I know you) we got to head over to Peter Luger's. I think you would get a kick out of that place.

Apo, that comment makes me wonder if it's the case that you don't know how to make sawmill gravy? I can fix that.

Mmmm...road trip to Texas anyone?

With the method I mentioned, you could make a mean gravy from the drippings and little crispy bits left behind in the skillet. A cream or sawmill gravy, sure, or, perhaps better suited to pork, redeye gravy (in which the liquid used is coffee, in case'n you didn't know).

I love Peter Luger's, but I haven't been there in years and I hear it's slipping...

Bacon grease is one of my favorite cooking ingredients! How can one possibly cook certain things without it.

The inventor totally sounds like Jackie from Red State Update.

And for dessert, pig candy.

YUCK

Makes me miss beer-battered fries at Hyde Park Bar and Grill in Austin (because of the gravy thing). They serve 'em with this... this horseradish, jalapeno mayo... stuff. Perfect side to go with their chicken fried steak. Mmmmmm.

And while I agree w/ M/tch in principle about the red-eye gravy, I find it too runny- who likes soggy fried bacon? Maybe more of a red-eye reduction sauce?

Sterling, HPB&G now has two locations!

Us southern boys know eveything goes better with bacon. Even bacon.

The Raleigh Times bar has the best bacon I've ever eaten. It's boiled in bacon grease. Good and good for you.

Don't know about you guys, but man, looking at this from Tokyo it's shocking how desperately these folks need some caloric balance!