Ok, so it’s not famous yet, but it certainly should be. I can’t help but humbly acknowledge that I have a tremendous gift in taking a simple, common dish and totally turbocharging it! You’ll never think of a Bacon Lettuce and Tomato sandwich the same way. And the next time you find yourself consuming a BLT less than Tom’s Famous Monster Diet BLT, there will be nothing but sore disappointment for you.

Now then! I’m sure you can’t wait to get started.

Here’s everything you need. Toast, mayo, a tomato, lettuce, the tomato slicer your Mom gave you because you couldn’t find one like it, lots of bacon (there’s more under the paper towel), and of course a glass of iced tea (not pictured).

A special note on the bacon, whenever you need bacon for any recipe go ahead and fry up an entire pound. By the time it’s fried good and crispy there’s hardly anything left anyway, and what you don’t use in the recipe you can snack on. I adore bacon.

Toast your toast. Spread liberally with mayo (there is one of the few examples of our day using the word “liberal” in a positive context!). Slap on a layer of bacon.

Add a slice of tomato.

Add a layer of lettuce, then more mayo.

Add another layer of bacon, another slice of tomato, another layer of lettuce, more mayo, another layer of bacon, another slice of tomato, another layer of bacon (if there’s any left), then top with second piece of toast.

Words fail me.

I can’t quit looking at this picture!

If Dagwood came to life and made a BLT, I believe it would look something like this.

I am a happy man.