The bacon is to disguise the fact that you cooked your hotdogs on a rake, with the bacon you don't taste the rake yummies.

Coffee pot + hotdogs = redneck hillbilly cooking (or could be college cooking).

Well what else do you do with the tray after you have consumed all of the beer and hotdogs?

"My uncle came up with this brilliant way to roast his hotdogs and marshmallows. Metal pole..check! Rusty fork..check! Voila! Location is very southern Illinois y'all."