Chocolate Covered Bacon, originally uploaded by grabbingsand.

Update: Perhaps I should explain. The bacon was created by the brilliant Sally (of Dan and Sally fame) and shared with us last night after a sustaining bowl of Indian carrot soup with flatbread.

Now, the obvious question is this: Was it good?

I’m going to say “Yes,” with an additional bit of observation. Not a disclaimer, mind you. What you see here is the convergence of two very powerful tastes. The bacon was smoky, substantial, the scent reminding me (very specifically) of the Pancake Pantry in Gatlinburg. The chocolate was dark and melty, coating my fingers just about as soon as I picked up the slice. Put them both together and they … do not really meld at all.

This isn’t bad, mind you. It’s just very unexpected. The bacon wants to be the dominant flavor, but so does the dark chocolate. The chunks of salt on the chocolate try their hardest to negotiate a treaty between the two tastes, but all it really does it assist both sides in their little flavor war like a culinary double-agent. All in all, I had about one and a half slices. That was enough. Any more than that would’ve been just too much.

The moral is this: If someone offers you chocolate-covered bacon, take it. Eat it. But stop after the first one or two. The cocoa-jacketed bacon will call to you from the plate, but turn away from its siren call, leave some for another day.