2001 Donut Burger

It's fair season and that means one thing---lots of exotic food. Ever since the first World Fair, they’ve celebrated our ingenuity and the products of our hard work. And they've also celebrated our culinary achievements---pies, sausages, canned asparagus.
I saw an item at the Lacey Spring Fun Fair that captured that cultural inventiveness. I first saw it when a friend of mine, let's call him Graeme, showed me. Sort of. He was in the process of cramming it into his mouth. "I took one for the team," he said. "Someone had to make the sacrifice." And sacrifice it was, as he held the equivalent of a coronary in his fist.
He had a Krispy Kreme Bacon Cheeseburger.
Here's the deal, we had seen the banner on the front of their booth all day and were joking about how they didn't put a space between the words and it made it look like instead of Krispy Kreme Donuts and Bacon Cheeseburger separately it was Krispy Kreme Bacon Cheeseburger.
And it was!!
You start with a whole Krispy Kreme donut as the bottom half of your bun. Add two beef patties, three pieces of bacon, two slices of cheese, lettuce and tomato, (for health) and condiments. Then put another Krispy Kreme donut on as the top half of the bun. The only thing it needs is an automatic 911 beacon that engages when it detects you going suddenly supine.
I talked to Graeme the next morning. He'd survived to enjoy another day at the fair. As I said, fairs have always celebrated our hard work and ingenuity. That's certainly the case here. We are an inventive culture. We can put a man on the moon, create a heated barcolounger with cupholders.
And a Krispy Kreme Bacon Cheeseburger.
America, ya gotta love it.