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Ask The Tiki is ready for download in the app store! It’s free and should only take a moment get. Plus, its features and capabilities are so awesomely powerful that you need iOS4 in order to run it! Jobs is at one with the Universe and the Tiki taps into that power to bring you spiritual answers from beyond this plane of understanding.

So while you’re downloading iOS4, you should take a moment to bring peace and enlightenment into your life and download Ask The Tiki. You have nothing to lose except doubt and uncertainty.

Do you have questions about life and the meaning of it all? Do you have doubt and uncertainty about what to do next? Are people looking to you for answers but you have nothing to offer them?

Have no fear, Ask The Tiki is here. Don’t dwell in darkness anymore, let The Tiki give you spiritual guidance. Clear your mind, concentrate on that which you really want to know, then ask the Tiki and be given divine inspiration. Be amazed and amused at the awesome fortune telling power of The Tiki. But be careful, The Tiki knows all. The Tiki tells all. The Tiki is brutally honest. Are you prepared for what The Tiki has to say?

Creating just one Death Sausage is far too easy. Even creating two is indulgent but is easily achievable. When you want to push the limits of gluttony and bacon tolerance, you make five Death Sausages! That’s right, five!

I thought Tracy and Brian were making a single DS with multiple ingredients. They were in fact making two separate rolls each with different ingredients. They combined bratwurst and shredded pork to their offerings and snuck in some other ingredients before rolling it up. All totaled we had nearly fifteen pounds worth of meat products at the ready that went into the smoker. And as you can see from the pictures we had plenty of smoke going.

The Death Sausage takes a little over two hours to cook, and considering how many pounds we had in there we were cooking for several hours. But make no mistake, they were damn good!

Theo went with a more classic recipe, but used his own blend for the dry rub and added plenty of garlic cloves. Mine was on the spicy side because of the Andouille sausage and spicy mustard. Tracy and Brian came up with a good one using pulled pork and bratwurst. The flavors and textures mixed together very nicely. Quite frankly each one of them was delicious! Not to mention that we had plenty of potato salad, chips, dips, cookies, brownies and Corona. This was perhaps the most decadent BBQ I’ve ever been witness to!

Please feel free to leave your envious comments and bask in the glory of the Death Sausage!

This time last year I put together the Death Sausage. Last month, Theo and I did a beta test for the Bacon Explosion. Today, a new Death Sausage has been created and is waiting to be placed in the smoker. For this creation I used:

3 pounds of bacon
2 pounds of hot Italian Sausage
2 pounds of Andouille Sausage

Hot dogs and chicken strips were kept out of this version. However, this isn’t the only Death Sausage in existence. Theo has also created one which will be going into the smoker today. His creation uses:

3 pounds of bacon
2 pounds of Italian Sausage
a secret blend of herbs and spices

And if that wasn’t enough there is a third Death Sausage which will be created later this afternoon. Tracy and Brian are putting this one together, but the list of ingredients is a secret known only to them. I know there is bacon in it, but the rest remains a mystery. They’ll be assembling their Death Sausage once we get from the brewery. We’re kicking off the festivities with a trip back to the Carolina Blonde brewery so we can fill the growlers and hang out for a few hours. Then we’ll reconvene, for the cooking of 15 lbs worth of meat and full contact horseshoes. This is gonna be one hell of a day!