Gourmet bacon, egg and cheese sandwiches!

BECs (or bacon, egg and cheese sandwiches) are something of an obsession at work. BECs can be celebratory (cBECs), morale boosters (rpBECs, which console those suffering from rejected papers) or pure time wasters (nothing kills an afternoon like a bacon-induced hangover/nap). However, the ultimate in BECdom was recently achieved when my friend returned from a trip to Spain with massive amounts of cheese and cured pork products. We decided that, in order to honor the tastiest of all animals, we would create the most gourmet BEC imaginable - the gBEC.

The first step in the creation of the gBEC was procurement of the thickest, most flavorful bacon we could find. This was cooked on a stove top griddle, and the bacon fat used to fry the eggs (hey, I didn't say this was healthy!). These were placed on giant Kaiser rolls and finished with slices of Spanish cheese and sausage. We contemplated pairing our creations with some homemade beer, but as it was a Wednesday afternoon (and we don't work in finance) we headed back to the lab sober, but definitely ready for a nap!