30 Rock’s Cheesy Blasters brought to life

November 19, 2009

Jonathan Bender,

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When 30 Rock recently introduced a fictional new hot pocket-cheese-filled hot dog hybrid — Cheesy Blasters — it was the kind of food that felt right up there with America’s current fair food obsession.

Now, the duo behind Lunch Blog KC has brought the frank-enstein creation to life, complete with recipe and lots of pictures. Fat City caught up with Robert Bishop, one of the bloggers responsible for bringing Cheesy Blasters to life.

How did the real-life version of Cheesy Blasters came about.

As soon as Liz Lemon sang the Cheesy Blasters jingle, my wife Kelly turned to me and asked, “You’d totally eat that, wouldn’t you?” I didn’t need to actually answer the question.

A couple of weeks later, Shaw and I were planning a college food guys’ night with yard beers and frozen wings, burritos and pizzas, and discovered these Tyson Anytizers chicken nuggets that are stuffed with pizza. That set us on a hunt for the most Cheesy Blasters-like product possible, and when we were unable to come up with much, we got the inspiration to just make them ourselves.