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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Next year hold it in Dearborn, MI.
“I used 3 Poise femine products $3 coupons to buy 3 Poise Pantyliners that cost $3.49 each.”
I don’t like that brand, itches.
Remember this http://www.bbqaddicts.com/bacon-explosion “Mmm, bacon.”
Thanks for that wonderful link; I’ll be poking around and order some tomorrow.
It’s not The Art of Butchering, anymore; it’s simple mass-production to meet demand and most animals suffer greatly along the way to finishing. Sad.
When I lived in Arlington Hts NW Suburbs, I saw the Chicago Stockyards “beef/pork slaughterhouse machine” in action, firsthand, and it was awful. Yet the great steakhouses and restaurants “knew nothing” about it all, as they served the finest cuts of meat to drooling patrons.
Kinda like the German civilians living near the Nazi-run concentration camps, who professed ignorance.
I know a lot of PA country butchers now, and they are pros, quick, fast and humane, in comparison.
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