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Last weekend, I made it to the Blue Ribbon Bacon Fest.
It's a hard ticket to come buy (8000 tickets sold out in about three minutes)
Personally, I think it is the name. You have to go to something called Baconfest. (There is a similarly themed pork and wine expo called Swine- pork and wine= swine. Get it? which i've heard is awesome but is nothing in terms of scale of comparison.)
Baconfest is part parade and part trade show.
There's a Bacon Queen who wore (albeit and understandably briefly) a dress made entirely of bacon.
There's a Grand Marshall. Hacksaw Jim Duggan!
The crowd indeed was full of hipsters and about 5:1 male to female, still a good section of the public showed. the hipsters wore hipster t-shirts, but credit to those with a suggestive looking pig (!) called "50 Shades of Bacon"
There were bands, and they played songs like Black Sabbath's "Bacon Man" (Iron Man) and Bad Company's "Feel like Bacon (Making) Love".
There was free bacon (of course), and although I hesitate to complain, I will. What no love for crisp bacon?
Mostly, Baconfest works like one of those cooking shows where every recipe has to use a special ingredient.
So, there was some obvious and some not so much- Bacon Breakfast Pizza, Bacon wrapped Jalapeno, Pastries with Bacon, Bacon flavored chips, the Bacon (and Sausage) Explosion sandwich (which was pretty good), Bacon Crab Rangoon, Bacon Gumbo and Bacon Pretzels to name but a few.
Baconfest is undoubtedly a success and is a perfect fit for this state. They did everythign right including bacon lectures (if you needed them) and so much more. It is a perfect event for those who want to drink all day (just saying). It has grown exponentially, and it is reaching an obvious conclusion for next year (2 days).
Also, there was apparently a marriage proposal.
To me, I got my fill in for awhile, but would certainly recommend it to the person who gets excited about such things.
It's a hard ticket to come buy (8000 tickets sold out in about three minutes)
Personally, I think it is the name. You have to go to something called Baconfest. (There is a similarly themed pork and wine expo called Swine- pork and wine= swine. Get it? which i've heard is awesome but is nothing in terms of scale of comparison.)
Baconfest is part parade and part trade show.
There's a Bacon Queen who wore (albeit and understandably briefly) a dress made entirely of bacon.
There's a Grand Marshall. Hacksaw Jim Duggan!
The crowd indeed was full of hipsters and about 5:1 male to female, still a good section of the public showed. the hipsters wore hipster t-shirts, but credit to those with a suggestive looking pig (!) called "50 Shades of Bacon"
There were bands, and they played songs like Black Sabbath's "Bacon Man" (Iron Man) and Bad Company's "Feel like Bacon (Making) Love".
There was free bacon (of course), and although I hesitate to complain, I will. What no love for crisp bacon?
Mostly, Baconfest works like one of those cooking shows where every recipe has to use a special ingredient.
So, there was some obvious and some not so much- Bacon Breakfast Pizza, Bacon wrapped Jalapeno, Pastries with Bacon, Bacon flavored chips, the Bacon (and Sausage) Explosion sandwich (which was pretty good), Bacon Crab Rangoon, Bacon Gumbo and Bacon Pretzels to name but a few.
Baconfest is undoubtedly a success and is a perfect fit for this state. They did everythign right including bacon lectures (if you needed them) and so much more. It is a perfect event for those who want to drink all day (just saying). It has grown exponentially, and it is reaching an obvious conclusion for next year (2 days).
Also, there was apparently a marriage proposal.
To me, I got my fill in for awhile, but would certainly recommend it to the person who gets excited about such things.
