3 Cheese & Bacon Campfire Potatoes

 

FUN FACTS ABOUT BACON

Bacon is one of the most popular meats in the US, eaten forbreakfast, lunch, dinner…and yes, even dessert. And it’s been popular for aquite a while: The earliest records of bacon date back to 1500 B.C! Here are some other fun facts about America’s favorite
salted and cured pork:

1. The word bacon means “meat from the back of an
   animal.”  
2. Americans spend more than $4 billion annually on bacon.
3. Bacon dates back at least 3,500 years. The Chinese were the first to cook salted pork bellies. The salt preserved the meat so it could be eaten all year.
4. During World War II, Americans were urged to save bacon fat so it could be used in the manufacture of bombs. (It was used to make glycerol, an ingredient in explosives.)
5. If you’re average, you’ll eat 18 pounds of bacon this year.
6. Three bacon products you can’t eat: Bacon-Scented Bath & Shower Soap; Bacon Strips Adhesive Bandages (Band-Aids that look like strips of bacon); and the Bacon Surfing Cat Clock (a clock with a picture of a cat surfing on a piece of bacon…in space).
7. Kevin Bacon’s favorite sandwich is the BLAST—bacon, lettuce, avocado, smoked salmon, and tomato. (He claims he invented it.)
8. Bacon has been called the food most likely to convince vegetarians to eat meat.
9. Bacon has a compound that produces a pleasing neurochemical response. Result: bacon is addictive.
10. U.S. bacon sales fell sharply in the 1980s because of a lean-meat craze. What turned it around? The bacon cheeseburger. The first one debuted at Hardee’s in 1992. Once it became clear that people were more willing to eat bacon when they went out, restaurants started adding it to everything…and started the modern bacon craze.
11. First recorded death by bacon: In 1543, an English servant named Elizabeth Browne was warming herself by a fire when she was crushed by four sides of uncooked bacon that had fallen from a hook.
12. American bacon is made from the pork belly, which
    accounts for its trademark streaks of fat. European and Canadian bacon are
    still made from the back meat of a pig, which is considerably leaner.  

Ingredients

• 3 medium red potatoes cut into 1-inch cubes
• 1 medium onion, chopped
• salt
• pepper
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 8 oz shredded cheese, we used a colby, monterey, cheddar blend
• 1/2 cup crumbled cooked bacon

Instructions

1. Create your foil packets with a double thickness of heavy-duty aluminum foil (about 18 in. square).
2. Spray foil with non stick spray or grease with olive oil
3. Put 1/2 of potatoes in the middle of each foil packet
4. Dot with Butter
5. Sprinkle with Onion
6. Add Salt and Pepper.
7. Fold foil around potato mixture and seal tightly.
8. Grill, covered, over medium heat for 12-15 minutes on each side or until potatoes are tender.
9. Carefully open foil so you don’t steam yourself.
10. Sprinkle the bacon and cheeses over potato mixture.
11. Grill 3-5 minutes longer or until cheese is melted.
12. Open foil with caution, so steam can escape.

ENJOY!