I'm representing bacon in Jared's Carnivore Project Meat Bracket, taking on the mighty Marcus and 'sasuage' so I thought I'd better make an effort and do a video. If you want to vote, go here and do so. I bet Tim Berners-Lee is dead proud of what we're doing with his internet.
UPDATE: This is the state of play with a few hours to go and 476 votes cast. If you've not voted, you should, the blogosphere is clearly poised on a knife edge.
I don't think I've laughed that hard for a while - your expression when looking at the sausage was priceless..
Posted by: Will | January 16, 2007 at 10:42 PM
I’m up against it now. Good show.
Posted by: Marcus Brown | January 17, 2007 at 07:23 AM
Terrific.
Posted by: Jared | January 17, 2007 at 08:59 AM
Judging by this rather slanderous start, it is going to be one ugly fight.
What's wrong with a little dust in your sausages? I heard it's very low on calories.
Posted by: Camiel | January 17, 2007 at 09:07 AM
aaaaarggg.... :-S
Posted by: georgina | January 17, 2007 at 09:43 AM
I've trried to predict the winner using google trends http://hobart65.blogspot.com/index.html
Sausage vs. Bacon is a close call, unless you come from Iceland or Malta
Posted by: hobart65 | January 17, 2007 at 09:44 AM
Brilliant.
Posted by: Lebowski | January 17, 2007 at 09:44 AM
it will be a good clean meaty fight.
Posted by: Marcus Brown | January 17, 2007 at 09:46 AM
Marcus - when are you unveiling the sausage counter-attack?
This whole conversation makes me long for fried eggs and hash browns.
Posted by: Jared | January 17, 2007 at 10:43 AM
All will be revealed tomorrow. Tomorrow will see the return of the banger. Ecky Thump.
Posted by: Marcus Brown | January 17, 2007 at 10:56 AM
Umm, sorry, unimpressed. It's not terrific, it's not brilliant, it's filming some dodge writing with an unsteady hand. Apology Russell if I seem harsh, just I really want to be the only one here brave enough to be honest with you. I've heard much about you, even met you and refuse to say yay when I know this isn't your best.
I hope it works out.
Posted by: Ambitious | January 17, 2007 at 04:22 PM
Russell, I´m quite sure mr. Berners-Lee will be smiling when he sees this. Keep it up!
Posted by: Martin Gustafsson | January 17, 2007 at 04:42 PM
i just got a little emotional while watching that
Posted by: Heather | January 17, 2007 at 05:22 PM
You have a blog Heather....it's about bacon. I'm now emotional
Posted by: Ambitious | January 17, 2007 at 05:25 PM
Sausage arguments now posted Mr. Davies.
Posted by: Marcus Brown | January 18, 2007 at 10:19 AM
I'm torn. In two. Right down the middle.
Posted by: beeker | January 18, 2007 at 11:55 AM
It's got to be bacon - they just make better sandwiches, and add more to cooking. A close run thing - it was a properly cured and hung piece of bacon from the butchers what won it for me.
Posted by: Northern Planner | January 18, 2007 at 02:34 PM
Sausages.
Posted by: Marcus Brown | January 18, 2007 at 03:32 PM
Given that this is the World Wide Interweb, shouldn't we be more geographically specific?
So long as you avoid the cheapo supermarket stuff, English sausages and bacon are both a treat.
American bacon, on the other hand, is 90% fat and heavily smoked - you might as well fry up some cigarette butts in lard. And the mighty sausage is all too often translated as a 'dog' (made out of dog) or a 'link' (the scrapings off the floor of a chicken coop).
Much better steaks this side of the pond though.
Posted by: jonnyeye | January 18, 2007 at 06:12 PM
We're being quite specific jonyeye. Russell is currently winning with bacon (british) and I think I cover international sausage.
Posted by: Marcus Brown | January 18, 2007 at 06:30 PM
Jonnyeye, American and British bacon have been split out into two different contenders on the Meat Bracket. American Bacon is currently engaged in a meato-y-meato challenge with Hot Dogs.
According to my Google analytics, Mr. Berners-Lee swung by yesterday at 8.43 am to vote for Ribs. Honest.
Posted by: Jared | January 18, 2007 at 06:34 PM
Jared, this whole meat thing is just the best. Well done.
Posted by: Marcus Brown | January 18, 2007 at 06:54 PM
Thanks! I'm really glad everyone is enjoying it so much.
Posted by: Jared | January 18, 2007 at 07:17 PM
Looking good for you at the moment my strip of naked lesh loving friend. Sausages are on me when I'm in London next.
Posted by: Marcus Brown | January 18, 2007 at 07:49 PM
Apologies - I should have researched further before commmenting. Can someone post a couple of rashers from Blighty to San Francisco?
Or at least a bag of Frazzles?
Coincidentally, I stumbled across a specialist British grocers in San Francisco yesterday. Imagine huge installations of Baked Beans, Tetley's Tea Bags, McVities Biscuits and Wham Bars. The shopkeeper (for we are a nation of them) was a strange and unhappy fellow, originally from Lancashire. He's been in the States for 4 years, fighting for Rowntree's Jelly like a wounded animal. "These people are crazy" he told me "Have you tasted their macaroni cheese?"
Personally, I'm not sure the best way to enjoy a foreign country is to barricade yourself behind a wall of Bird's Custard tins.
I'd die for a sausage, beans and mash right now though.
Posted by: Jonathan Isaac | January 18, 2007 at 10:30 PM