Listen Up, Internet: BACUNIVES!

Ben, who I once worked with, used to play a game where you had to try to come up with a Google search that would yield exactly one result.

In other words, you were trying to think up something almost, but not entirely, obscure. This is not easy.

Imagine my surprise when I did a search today for “bacunives” and came up with 56 results, NONE OF WHICH HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH BACUNIVES.

Do you know about bacunives? They are prunes, stuffed with pimiento-filled olives, then wrapped in a strip of bacon, and broiled.

Apparently not everyone’s peer group calls them bacunives, as does mine, or there would be some mention of them on the Internet, aside from my friend Heather’s last week.

I would like to now have a year-end moment of appreciation for my own peer group.

[Pause.]

Not that there is anything wrong with the name “devils on horseback,” which is their other name. Tomorrow I will also be making something called “angels on horseback,” which is the same principle, but executed with apricots rather than prunes.

The theme of 2011 will be things that are put inside of other things before you eat them.

Or perhaps that is the theme of the end of 2010. At any rate, knock yourselves out with these.

You can soften the prunes in water if you are inclined, or add cream cheese or fontina instead of olives.

Clearly, you can do whatever you’d like, since you’ve already committed to wrapping bacon around everything.

Happy new year in advance!