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DES MOINES, Iowa – 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.
The smell of unique concoctions like bacon gumbo and chocolate bacon bourbon tarts wafted
through one of two buildings at the Iowa State Fairgrounds. The other
building had an Iceland theme, with a Viking boat and Icelandic dishes
with bacon, to honor a group of delegates visiting from the country. Urbandale resident Mike Vogel showed up for a fourth year wearing a
head-to-toe bacon costume. He said a widespread love for bacon is the
reason about 8,000 tickets to the event sold out in just over three
minutes.
Other events scheduled included lectures about bacon and an eating
competition. The festival was preceded earlier in the week with a bacon
queen pageant and a pig pardon by Gov. Terry Branstad. Festival co-founder Brooks Reynolds, who officially started the event just a few years ago, said it's become the largest bacon showcase in the world. He called the event a "bacon fellowship."
"They can just bond with their fellow man and just celebrate the meat that everybody enjoys," he said.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2013/02/11/thousands-gather-in-iowa-for-annual-bacon-festival/#ixzz2KtLLIQY4
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