A LATE night fry-up proved too tempting for a pair of drug-dazed frozen meat thieves who inadvertently lured police straight to their front door with the smell of sizzling bacon.

Hervey Bay man Damian Barry Lewis went from a fry-up to the lock-up after being caught pigging out on stolen pork products.

Delicious bacon let police to two men who stole pork products. Credit:Edwina Pickles

Lewis faced the Hervey Bay Magistrates Court this week to answer for the night he and a young accomplice went on a failed mission for greasy food in Pialba.

The court heard 33-year-old Lewis and a "spaced out" teenager were found rifling through a stranger's shed in December.

When the owner yelled out and asked what they were doing, Lewis apparently pointed to the younger male who was "walking around in circles" with bacon and sausages in hand and said "he told me to".

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