Posted on 02/09/2013 9:09:55 PM PST by carriage_hill
The smell of bacon was in the air Saturday as thousands converged on Iowa's capital city for an increasingly popular festival celebrating all things connected with the meat.
Some people wore Viking hats and others walked around with makeshift snouts for the Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival. The annual event featured more than 10,000 pounds of bacon served in unusual ways, such as chocolate-dipped bacon and bacon-flavored cupcakes and gelato.
"I love bacon more than I love my job," said Katie Nordquist, who was dressed in a tuxedo T-shirt that looked like bacon Saturday for her first time at the festival.
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I can smell it wafting in the air! Life doesn't get any better!
If you can't go to the Bacon Festivl, then get some Kitchen & Pantry Staples, online:
The 8,000 tickets sold out in a few minutes.
Are the Muzzies “offended” yet?
Bacon Ping!
Hell, yes! We’re ready for ‘em with piles of sandwiches, surrounded by concertina wire. LOL. I carry mmy Class III AR-15 and Kimber 1911 .45acp, just in case. Bring it muzzie filth!
Smell the love!
BBL... something happening down the road...
Why?
That would be self abuse!
That would start a riot there in Iowa.
KILL THE HERETIC!
I find myself remiss in that I did not include you on my original ping to this thread..
So Ping It Be.
Photo of this year’s Bacon Queen...wearing a dress made of...yes, BACON!
http://ktla.com/2013/02/09/baconfest-2013-features-dress-made-entirely-of-bacon/#axzz2KTaZgQyE
If there are any plans for building a mosque in the area, I certainly hope someone “planted” some bacon on the property...(it would be worth the sacrifice.)
Meat free bacon? that is just sick
Have got to control myself. Any comment regarding that pic would get me banned
While I have not personally been to the Bacon Queen contest, I have seen some video footage on the news. Of course, they select the Queen several days prior to the event.
The Pageant is held at a local bar..I did note that when they announced the winner, she was up on stage with the rest of the contestants...and was holding a beer at the time...LOL!
Fakin’ Bacon? Ick, that’s just... Wrong.
On a lark ordered some fancy applewood smoked bacon from out of state mail order catalog. It was good, but didn’t find it better by any stretch than the stuff at the grocery store. So we got that goin’ for us, that’s nice.
Fried eggs are good with bacon, but a little heavy - what goes better imo is poached in water (runny yolks) over toast w/ lots of dairy butter. A side of hash browns (cheaper the better) white pepper with grated onion and velveeta. Grape jelly on toast, coffee, juice rounds out a good breakfast.
Sausage gravy over drop bisquits ifn real hungry, maybe pancakes and maple syrup. Not all at once, usually.
Happy dog!
Meat free bacon? I don’t want to know what it is.
Car accident. Police/EMTs have it handled.
Once you start eating that bacon, you won’t know where to stop.
Lets all sing the "Rub Some Bacon On It" song! 
The “Rub Some Bacon On It” Song
911 what's your emergency?
I nailed my finger to a birdhouse accidentally
Do your have some bacon (bacon?)
Bacon, That's right
I have bacon left over from dinner last night
Rub some bacon on it
what?
On your hand just do it
Rub some bacon on it
That's all there is to it?
What if I dropped my phone?
Rub some bacon on it
or encounter my clone?
Rub some bacon on it
I get mononucleosis
Rub some bacon on it
My nude pics get posted
Rub some bacon on it
Rub some bacon on it
Rub some bacon on it
Yeah
My home gets foreclosed
Rub some bacon on it
My cat explodes
Rub some bacon on it
I wake up in a trunk
Rub some bacon on it
My friend goes steampunk
Rub some bacon on it
I meet real pirates
Rub some bacon on it
There's an akward silence
I say something unintentionally racist
Rub some bacon on it
I'm a adult with braces
Rub some bacon on it
I can't swim
Rub some bacon on it
I'm visited by Mr. Timn
Rub some bacon on it
Rub some bacon on it
Rub some bacon on it
Bacon hotline, What’s your problem?
What if I feed the troll?
Rub some bacon on it
I’m attacked by a narwhal
Rub some bacon on it
The apocalypse started
Rub some bacon on it
I think I might have sharted
(bacon mug filled with melted cheddar cheese)
In a few minutes, I’ll be leaving FR and stepping into the shower. I’ll be using bacon scented soap. For real.
Bacon is the candy of meats!
“I’ve got 50-lbs in 3-lb packs of PA County Bacon and Sausage, in the garage freezers,”
I hope it’s registered. Do you have a permit to carry your bacon?
No permit for hi-cap bacon pkgs! Uh-oh!
For Christmas, I found mr. a some bacon-scented shaving cream. One of my presents from him was a bacon-scented car air freshener.
It is a happy marriage.
Excellent! Bacon keeps people happy.
Did you see this reply? Has to be a vegan.
The way these pigs are killed, raised — stuck in gestation crates — watching their piglets live in darkness in a factory, boiled flippin’ alive for the dehairing process — all so jerks like you all can shove pig flesh in your mouths, get high cholesterol, and most of you are fat. Inflating health care costs...it’s inexcusable what you consumers do to animals and how they are treated, all so you can buy the hype and shove down your throats fat greased bacon (pig skin and flesh).
I’m on my way to the store. Got bacon?
We have the cutest little Canuck themed restaurant up here....and of course tried it.
But plain or peppered bacon is better!
I recently read a book written by a vegan woman who runs a “sanctuary” for farm animals. She went so far as to say that we should not shear sheep. I read through the whole thing to see what she proposed as the eventual utility for these lovely farm animals that she’s championing. She spared about two paragraphs (IIRC) for her vision for the future - farm animals raised as beloved pets, roaming about farms in their “family” groups.
Okay. I’m a farmer. Livestock very rarely form “family” groups. Bulls, boars and rams are not exactly models of family fidelity. Besides, what kind of market does she think will be out there for livestock “pets”? Who out there wants to keep cattle for companionship, and not meat or milk? If her vision came true, we’d see a lot of endangered species out there.
I’m totally against cruel farm practices, but the only reason for most livestock to exist is their utility. Take that away and you take away the reason for continuing their breeding.
And if you think that is slick. One of the cashiers yesterday told me about a woman who comes in twice a week to buy over a thousand bucks of stuff and gets back about $1500 in overage. Thus she gets several thousand bucks worth of stuff PLUS earns about $3000 in cash each week. CRAZY!!! I just apply my overage to products I need. Somehow I feel strange about receiving actual cash back although it has happened by accident a few times when I miscalculated my deals.
LOL! Actually, I guffawed. Thanks for posting.
“...she gets several thousand bucks worth of stuff PLUS earns about $3000 in cash each week.”
Publix? I remember them from living/working in Miami, back in the 70s. Is Publix still in business?
Sounds like those doggie treats.
It’s only fair that you spread the wealth around a bit.
How is it fair that you have 50 pounds of bacon; and I only have a partial package of Trader Joes smoked apple wood bacon in my refrigerator?
I demand bacon equality now.
Heh. I even bought that 50-lbs way back when it was $3.29/lb; now, it’s 7.79/lb, here. Mmmmmm, smoked apple bacon. You might have the better deal.
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