Friday Afternoon Bacon Blogging — Baconfest!

It has been a really long time since I’ve done this — but with the excitement of the Queen opening and the Ignite Wilmington event and other things going on in Wilmington, I thought I’d post up a report on the Chicago Baconfest. Because we need one here in Wilmington. A Baconfest, featuring bacon-y goodness cooked up by our local superstar chefs. They sold 1500 tickets to this thing in Chicago — and there are certainly ALOT of people here who love bacon enough to spend some money on a ticket to spend an entire day with BACON! Here’s abit about the experience:

The event could not have gone better. Lines were almost non-existent and they moved quickly when they did form. Every chef was told to bring 900 servings, which, even counting the 500 guests and media, comes out to more than 25 servings of bacon-bearing food per person. Now, most people weren’t going to eat close to that amount. Why not divide the event up into multiple sessions? Zurer said the overload was key to achieving the “vision of Baconfest as a bacon wonderland so full of Bacon goodness that the mind reels at the scope of experience on offer.”

A day with 25 servings of bacon. We really need this.

In the meantime, this was an interesting idea from this slideshow on some of the offerings at Baconfest:

Bacon Meatballs. Yummy!

I’d go to a local Baconfest.