So this year will mark the first annual Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival. Oh yeah. You'd be hard pressed to come up with a better tasting festival, at least in my opinion. I heartily applaud the creators of this one. PBR and bacon: what could be betterThe Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival will be held in Des Moines, Iowa on March 1. Apparently this is National Pig Day, so the choice was obvious. A local pub, The High Life Lounge, will hold the honor of home base for the festival.
The big bacon event will draw people from all over the country and involve all kinds of bacony goodness. There will be $1 PBR, every kind of bacon containing food, and a bacon eating contest. The creator of the event, Brooks Reynolds, has donated smoked malts to local brewers so they can come up with smoky beers to go with bacon. And to top everything off, a chef from Chicago has created a maple bacon cheesecake with a Templeton Rye whiskey glaze. Yum.
My only question is "Can I Go?"
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2-16-2008 @ 8:22PM
darth2o said...
Aww, I wish I could go, but I have a swim meet that day.
And I don't live near Iowa.
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2-16-2008 @ 8:29PM
Joe said...
FLAXSEED OIL CANCER CURE????
http://flaxseed-cancer.blogspot.com
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2-17-2008 @ 7:48AM
Bob said...
I need to put on my own bacon festival....by myself!
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2-17-2008 @ 1:12PM
Lauren said...
Mmmmm.... bacon...
You should visit our Bacon Mat Gallery! Yes, a mat made of bacon.
http://lloydandlauren.com/?page_id=863
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2-17-2008 @ 6:34PM
Fuzzy Izmit said...
I need to go to this festival! Stupid school... gets in the way of everything!
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2-27-2008 @ 4:10PM
Alexa said...
We've been having a bacon day for the last 3 years in Boulder CO. Last year we went through over 25 lbs of bacon. Check us out at internationalbaconday.blogspot.com
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