MNN - Mother Nature Network

There are some food trends, healthy or not, that are too intriguing to pass up. This includes the phenomenon known as bacon mania in which an ordinary, underappreciated breakfast meat becomes an Internet meme, a rebellious anti-foodie statement and fodder for cookbooks, highly publicized events and numerous cheesy novelty products. To mark the occasion, we’ve rounded up five of the most outrageously decadent items that have sprung from our national obsession with cured pork products — a “halal of shame,” if you will.