Mmmmm bacon... Deep. Fried. Bacon.

Em's sister was in town for a couple of weeks recently - we decided we'd go check out a place I'd seen on the internet that serves "Chicken Fried Bacon".

Explanation for the foreigners: Americans like fried chicken. This is chicken heavily coated in a batter made with egg and seasoned flour and deep fried. A popular Southern dish is chicken fried steak - this is a tough steak that has been tenderized and coated with the same egg then seasoned flour before also being deep fried. This is served with a cream gravy heavily seasoned with black pepper.

Enter Sodolaks - the guy that runs Sodolak's was looking for a new appetizer and he hit upon the idea of chicken fried bacon - it's exactly what says it is - streaky bacon coated in seasoned flour and deep fried. Served with cream gravy for dipping.

Wow!

Here's a bad photo of our actual appetizer:

It was actually pretty good - crunchy bacony goodness. Dipped in cream :-)

The best part for me was actually the whole experience - it's in the middle of nowhere, staffed with the nicest people you'll ever meet and the clientele was pretty varied - tourists (us), locals, college kids from nearby Texas A&M and a few real life cowboys complete with boots and spurs.

Here's the video that got me interested in going:

Once you get over the fact that it's a dish that propels you towards the inevitable heart attack, it all makes sense - nice people, cool location and deep fried pork. That's good living!