Some Chef Has Made a 500-Pound, 50-Foot Porktacular ‘Hog Log’

Run away, pig. If all goes well, there's going to be a 50-foot, 500-pound bacon and sausage behemoth tomorrow at the Baconfest, which is apparently a real thing in St. Louis. Chef John Johnson and his intrepid team of meat artists will assemble at dawn in the atrium of a local casino (of course), where they'll painstakingly weave 100 pounds of applewood-smoked strips into a giant bacon runner, to which they'll add a dusting a chipotle powder and 300 pounds of flattened Italian sausage meat, but ...