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has anyone ever see you pick up a piece of
double fudge
chocolate cake
smothered in
ice cream
and said this is why you're fat.
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the successful duo that came up with the very popular blog turned book called "this is why you're fat" a collection of crazy and whacky recipes.
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and disgusting.
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how are you?
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great, great.
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it started off as a blog. people just sent in the recipes of foods that they ate that were sort of
over the top
.
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and pictures, too.
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we started it on
february 9th
and we had a book deal within a month because there were so many submissions coming in.
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were you surprised at the number of people who had these types of recipes?
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yes, exactly. we knew we were on to something a lot of
bacon
blogs out there.
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bacon
blogs?
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yes.
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there is an obesity problem. a huge epidemic in our country. you're going to explain to us why.
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education segment.
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let's start with these. variation on your
cinnamon buns
.
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i hear that you typically like the
sweet stuff
, right, you like the savory. this is
best of both worlds
. this is
bacon
wrapped inside of a
cinnamon roll
.
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no, it is not.
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i'm sorry, but that saves time. that really does. you're going to put the whole thing in your -- wow.
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all right, let's see. good? interesting. it's like most of the items on the site and the book. it's kind of gross, but you want to try it.
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yesterday
paula dean
was making a pam with coca-cola and you are saying we can just have
fried coke
.
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this was the winner of the
texas state fair
a few years back.
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how do you fry a liquid?
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you have to bring it down to a pretty cool temperature and then batter it partially frozen, i think.
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you freeze it, batter it and fry it.
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but if you want to, the recipe is in her book.
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you have to check the book to see.
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you have to try it.
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look, you dropped five pounds you have to be feeling good, come on.
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i feel better and i want to stay that way.
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how many calories do you think are in this one scoop?
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i don't know.
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got the little whip cream on it, i bet it is fantastic.
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that is disgusting.
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oh, i'd love it.
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you do?
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how about this one. these are mcnuggetinis.
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i herd the fourth hour is the happy hour.
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some have called us that, we don't know why. this is vodkaonacdonald's
chocolate milk
shake garninged with
chicken nuggets
.
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this is perfect for frank.
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you cannot participate at all. you have a mcnugget garnishing it.
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cheers.
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cheers.
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that's good. oh, that's good. frank would love that. is that
barbecue sauce
around the edge?
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it is. again, sweet and savory.
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we have some meatloaf and some --
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what is in there?
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mac and cheese in your meatloaf.
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it is also
bacon
wrapped. if you want to be in this is why you're fat, smothered in cheese,
deep fried
or
bacon
.
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this gets almost everything. good for you. that was clever.
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what, you can't try that?
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that's the
bacon
.
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i'm just going to try that part. that's your typical
meat loaf
.
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you don't want the pasta part?
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my mother is cooking for thanksgiving. it takes one year to get off the pounds of my mother's at thanksgiving.
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this recipe is in the book. aren't all of these in the book? that's why you're here. they're all in the book.
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this recipe is not in the book, but you can get this in athens, georgia. it's in a cafe down there. this is based off of
elvis presley
's favorite sandwich.
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doughnut with
peanut butter
, banana and
bacon
.
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and
bacon
, exactly. banana and
peanut butter
sandwiches. my favorite one in the whole book. i spent a long time with this book is the
corn hole
. can we take a look, please, at the
corn hole
.
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that is disgusting. where is that corn?
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and where has it been?
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it's all in the book.
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happy, whatever, eating season. you look like you didn't try any of yours. we'll be
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