wrapped in bacon
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- adjective
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- Last year's winners were the bacon mac & cheese wrapped in bacon, Sticky Belly, and bacon toffee lollipops.
- wrapped in bacon scallops
Made tuna bites wrapped in bacon.
- Made tuna bites wrapped in bacon.
- Bacon, potatoes, like, you know, meat and potatoes type salmon wrapped in bacon.
Examples
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The man kept offering his plate to her, and finally he picked up a shrimp wrapped in bacon and popped it into her mouth.
Fiction book (2000) -
I have done green bean bundles wrapped in bacon, but I may have to try the asparagus.
Blog text (4) -
Anything wrapped in bacon, and the mushroom vol-au-vent.
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This is what I'm gonna make... seared sea scallops wrapped in bacon.
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"Scallops wrapped in bacon?"
Fiction book (2001) -
"Scallops wrapped in bacon."
Fiction book (2001) -
Scallops wrapped in bacon.
Fiction book (2001) -
"Scallops wrapped in bacon...
Fiction book (2001) -
The dog is wrapped in bacon and smothered in their homemade chili and homemade cheese sauce.
Blog text (8) -
For dinner, we enjoyed chicken breasts wrapped in bacon that were juicy and flavorful.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase's meaning — being covered or enclosed by bacon strips — is directly and literally derived from 'wrap' (to cover), the preposition 'in' (indicating enclosure), and 'bacon' (the food). This is a straightforward compositional cooking construction that is common cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Wrapped in bacon comes from a clear cooking picture: small foods are wrapped in strips of bacon so the bacon becomes crispy and adds smoky, salty flavor while the inside cooks. So, saying a dish is wrapped in bacon means 'cooked or prepared by being covered in bacon'.