Bacon Era is right now, right here in Des Moines, Iowa. Saturday February 16, all four levels of the Event Center. It’s Blue Ribbon Bacon Fest. Perhaps the largest collection of bacon related foods and activities that you will see in your lifetime. And there are still tickets available. As their website relates: This year’s theme, “Hello Piggy – East Meats West,” will pay homage to both the Year of the Pig on the Chinese Zodiac Calendar and the pork-filled relationship Iowans have built with the people of Yamanashi Prefecture in Japan since sending them 36 pigs almost 60 years ago. So many bacon questions.
- Thick sliced or regular?
- Fried or baked?
- Breakfast, lunch or dinner?
- Crisp or limp?
- Japan’s Bacon Queen will be a guest of honor. And a local Bacon Queen and King will be crowned.
- Bacon Eating contest, both individual and group competition.
- Bacon Duct Tape Bike giveaway
- Super Piggio Kart Races
- A lecture from the Bacon Professor – Iowa Bacon: Border to Border
- Gangnam Style Dance Off
- Bacon Costume Judging
- Bacon dates back to 1500’s, making it one of the oldest processed foods.
- The average American eats 18 pounds of bacon a year.
- 2 scrambled eggs have more calories than 4 slices of bacon.
- Oscar Meyer began selling pre-sliced, packaged bacon in 1924.
- Nearly 1/3 of the nations hogs grow up in Iowa.
What’s your favorite bacon fact? And what’s your favorite food involving bacon?
Bacon’s the best. Even the frying of bacon sounds like applause. Jim Gaffigan
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