On August 9th 2009 a St. Louis community came together to create a 179.2 foot long BLT. It only took 100 volunteers an hour to create this beast. Sadly I can’t find how long it took to devour it. They used 500 pounds of bacon, 20 cases of lettuce, 50 gallons of mayo and 90 loaves of bread. You can view photos of the construction here and there is a recorded uStream feed here.
This all went down at the Iron Barley restaurant, which hosted Tomatofest that weekend. I can’t think of a better way to celebrate the tomato. If you are wondering if this thing was edible, it was. It was only $5 per slice to sample the massive sammy. All money raised went to a local charity.
Reading about this make me want to try and plan something like this at this year’s Blue Ribbon Bacon Tour stop in Pittsburgh. But I think I would take it to the next level and try to make the world’s largest Bacon Explosion!
Jason Mosley (aka Mr. Baconpants) is the king of all bacon. He started this blog in 2004 to share his love of bacon and beer. 
Sean Brett (aka Bacon Knight) is the amazing co-host of Bacon Live, the weekly audio/video podcast about bacon and more.
Beth Mosley (aka Mrs. Baconpants) is a lover of good food and beer. She enjoys cooking and trying new recipes (with bacon).
let’s do it!!!
it would be grand! But we would need to find a lot of sausage and the worlds largest smoker.