Tom’s Famous Monster Diet BLT Sandwich
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.
13 Responses
March 16th, 2005 at 1:22 am
Too much mayo, but other than that it looks fabulous!
The Baritone
March 16th, 2005 at 1:28 am
Dude, you got a big mouth!
I am currently muttering bitter words under my breath of you and the entire iced tea industry! I’m a water girl! I can’t drink tea after hours! I went out with some friends, I drank tea, it’s almost 1:30 a.m., I need to get up at 4:30 a.m. and I’m not even down yet. All because of your blessed tea. A cursed drink I tell you! A cursed drink!
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Make your own interpretation!
MAN! I can’t even work up a yawn! Tomorrow will be a fun day that’s for sure!
Ag
March 16th, 2005 at 2:41 am
Ditto on your comment, “Words Fail Me.” I will NEVER look at a BLT the same again…LOL!!
March 16th, 2005 at 6:56 am
I’m still trying to figure out where the word “diet” fits in here.
March 16th, 2005 at 7:09 am
Yeah, Paul, what you just said.
March 16th, 2005 at 5:25 pm
Oh come on! Look at the ingredients! Talk about healthy. And the bacon is Adkins friendly. I’m not sure how to get rid of the bread, that’s the worst thing there. Maybe if I used a large lettuce leaf in place of each slice of toast. . .
March 16th, 2005 at 7:02 pm
Tom, toast a lettuce leaf!
March 16th, 2005 at 7:36 pm
First of all, I must point out that it is “Atkins”, not “Adkins”.
While the bacon may be Atkins-friendly, it is still full of fat and cholesterol. Maybe if you used low-sodium turkey bacon, you would have the beginnings of a diet BLT. Furthermore, is your mayo low-fat, is your bread 100% whole grain, and are the tomato and lettuce chemical-free?
And before everyone thinks I’ve completely jumped on the diet bandwagon, and become a health-crazed fiber junkie, that looks like an awesome sandwich! Just don’t label it “diet”.
March 16th, 2005 at 8:14 pm
I knew the Atkins Diet was one way and my late friend Dan Adkins spelled it the other, but I can never remember which is which.
If you want vile turkey bacon, low-fat mayo, and $$$ organic vegetables, be my guest! But they aren’t necessary for it to be diet.
Think of it this way Paul, compare it to, say, fried chicken. It’s diet.
Great out-of-the-box thinking there Darin. But that would make it even less rigid, and we need it to be able to support the sandwich.
March 16th, 2005 at 8:34 pm
Then use some Heavy Duty corrugated cardboard. That’s bound to be low-carb.
It’s low taste…
Hey! Think of the fiber you’d be getting. The New and IMproved Atkin’s Diet: The Hi-Card diet. Wheee!
March 16th, 2005 at 10:25 pm
“Compared to fried chicken, it’s diet.”
Uh-huh. Compared to that 500 lb. woman in orange spandex at Walmart riding the electric buggy, I’m skinny and in great shape. Oh, goody, I’m off the hook! I don’t have to diet anymore!
Yeah, right! That kind of reasoning is why I have the health problems I do have.
Believe me, the food you skinny people can eat will someday catch up with you, and my revenge will be complete! Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha! ;}
March 17th, 2005 at 3:08 am
PAUL, PAUL, PAUL!!!! Good grief, that does NOT conjure up good images!!! Hoooleee MACKerel…
The Baritone
March 18th, 2005 at 12:35 pm
How do you “toast” toast? Thats like saying a “hot water heater”! just a side note, you are getting married to my cousin’s daughter!