If ever anyone tries to tell you that chocolate chip cookies can’t be improved by the addition of fresh bacon bits to the batter and a strip of bacon pasted on top of the cookie with maple syrup, you can tell them that they are a filthy liar and you’re never listening to them again on anything. Behold:

I think I seriously damaged myself Sunday afternoon at the Chief Educator’s with his deep fryer: it was only just today that I stopped sweating cheese and canola oil with hints of bacon grease adding to the flavor. It was not as bad as it sounds, but it was still bad.