Plump tomatoes, salty bacon, crisp lettuce, soft bread, this week we want you to be inspired by the BLT. Write a piece of either fiction or creative non-fiction based on this photo.
Bacon. This is bacon like nothing that you could ever find in a store. Nothing.
It’s thickly sliced, deeply smoked and they make an attempt to cut it into slices but there are often big chunks the size of your thumb.
Every year when my family gathers for its regular family reunion my sister and I make a trip to the smoke house. This place has a smell that is so strong that you can smell it before you even get out of your car…. so strong that it feels like it burns your sinuses.
But the bacon is worth it. Yes, it’s even worth the powerful smell of fish too.
Fish, wild fowl, turkey, beef, and pork are some of the things that you will find in the case as you walk in the front door. All freshly made there every day, following the same recipe day after day that brings in people from all over the area and often selling out before closing time.
There is only one place that you can get this special bacon, and if you’re my sister you can only get it once a year (because that’s how often she comes home). When she’s here she buys the bacon in bulk and has it shipped back to her house in New Jersey. I on the other hand only buy around 4 pounds because making the trip isn’t much for me.
The bacon is wonderful fried in a pan or baked in the oven. As part of a BLT (with avocado of course), a side to your breakfast, or in your favorite recipe. Be warned though… your house will have a smoke smell to it for days after cooking it!
If you’re ever in Michigan, the thumb region to be exact, make a side trip to Sebewaing and head to Jar’s for some of the best bacon that you have ever had in your entire life. It is worth it…. trust me.
Are you kidding me with this? Bacon is the only thing holding me back from being a proclaimed vegetarian! It’s the ONLY meat I would miss. I NEED THAT!
For me is an amazing hamburger! I love burgers.
I’m so hungry
good job
Thank you!
Yum! Nothing like good, quality bacon! Screw turkey bacon…it’s not the same. Love me some good stuff. I’m going to have to make a mental note to remember that place!
Yea, turkey bacon can hardly compare to the real thing!
I could reeeeeally go for some bacon right now. That place sounds awesome!
It is a pretty good place if you can get past the strong smoke/fish smell!
I’m literally sitting at my desk at work (in a hospital) with a styrofoam plate of cafeteria bacon and eggs. I just looked at my bacon and made fun of it. My bacon ain’t got squat on yours! I think I might need this in my life.
You’re right… your bacon isn’t half as good.
My mouth is watering right now! You made that bacon sound perfectly yummy.
Thank you! It is really good stuff!
I really, really wish I lived close to this place ’cause I’m with Liz. Bacon is what stands between me and a vegetarian lifestyle.
May I make one writing suggestion? I think the piece would be stronger if you eliminated a couple of your “thats.” Just my opinion:) Write on!
Thank you so much for the writing feedback! I don’t usually get a lot and when I do I love it.
Now all I can think about is a BLAT for lunch…
Did you have one??
I see a summer road trip in my future. I like bacon, but I’m pretty sure my husband has built a little altar to it in the kitchen somewhere; he loves it.
And now I want a BLT with avocado!
LOL! an alter? It seems to me that there would be other places around Michigan that has bacon like this.
Did you know that my dream is to open a gourmet sandwich shop that sells this kind of thing?
It looks SO delicious. Pack that sandwich up and send it to Florida
Mmmm…. sandwiches… come here and I’ll open that shop with you!
Yum! Jealous of a smokehouse where you can buy fresh/homemade bacon. Sounds fabulous and next time I make a BLT, I’m adding avocado. Not sure why I never tried it before!
It is so good with slices of avocado! You’ll love it.
That cinches it. Next vacay will be in Michigan!
WOOHOO! There’s more here than awesome bacon too!
Almost tempts me…but not quite. Vegetarian ya know
Yea, guess it wouldn’t work for you then. You could always make the sandwich without it though!
Yum! The first time I tried avocado on a BLT I thought I was going to hate it. Was I proven wrong. Funny that you wrote about avocado, though. I wrote about guacomole BLT in my post.
Goodness, I am hungry now.
I love it! It adds something special to it that can’t be beat!
There really is nothing like a good thick slice of real bacon – that turkey substitute is just not as satisfying. Great word pictures!
Oh… turkey bacon is not even close! Can’t substitute for the real thing.
I love bacon but I don’t eat it regularly….and that is why when I do have it I feel like you do about it. You gave us a great visual!
I don’t eat it that often either. Thank you!
I’m such a sucker for BLTs and that bacon has my mouth watering =) YUM!
I love them too but I rarely make them for some reason.
Amazing. Thanks for making me hungry!
You’re welcome! And thanks for stopping by!
Apparently, I need to send my family in there. It’s only 2 hours from where they live… And you say they ship?
Yum.
They don’t ship that I know of… they may though. My dad ships it for her.
So wonderful I could almost smell the bacon. How lovely to have such a place nearby.
I buy it in bulk too… just not as much as my sister does!