From the monthly archives: February 2010

UPDATE: I updated this post with a list of key tweets from this day. I reason I did this is because the twitter widget could get compromised my spammers once they realize the hashtag is embedded in my blog. You can still read all the tweets from the day by searching #brbf10 on twitter.

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Tomorrow is the big day and I cant sleep. I just keep watching the following video over and over again. Its a snapshot of the past years of the festival. What started out as one mans passion for bacon has turned in to a 750 person event that sells out in 25 minuets.

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This is the second Bacon Elegance dinner at Cafe di Scala. The first one was last year, Heather of Bacon Unwrapped wrote a great post about it with pictures. I plan to do that same for this years event. I will update this posts with photos and our (Beth and I) thoughts after [...]

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Well it’s that time of year again when I make my yearly pilgrimage to bacon country. This year the Des Moines, Iowa Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival promises to be bigger and better then the following two years. With over 600 tickets selling out in less than 25 minutes and the fact that they already have [...]

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This week’s Music Monday is not a band but an internet radio station called Woxy. When Sirius XM started charging ungodly amounts of money to stream what you already pay 12.99 /mo. for, I started looking for cheaper/free alternatives. This is when I found Woxy.com, the future of rock and roll.

I tried [...]

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Its official the new internet bacon meme is cute animals. I first noticed this trend a few weeks ago when the bacon turtles photo was posted to the blog “This is why your fat”. Well now a Celeb is getting on this new meme.

Last night Ke$ha(maybe NSFW), the girl that [...]

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I hope as many people as possible watched Shaun White last night in the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. Just after seeing is qualifying run I was impressed. He made the snowboards who went before him look amateur, and I am not trying to rip on the other competitors. There were some other great [...]

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Today on Bacon LIVE Sean and I reviewed the first batch of Burgers’ Smokehouse Bacon. We both thought it was really good and I was impressed with how lean the bacon was. Watch the show for the full review.

Luckily we are not Catholic so we can continue to review bacon during Lent. As [...]

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I am sure there are multiple times in peoples lives where they say, “Wow I have seen everything”. Well, today is one of those times for me. Just when I thought the Bacon Nation couldn’t surprise me, someone invents the Caffeinated Maple-Bacon Lollipop. Yes, thats right a bacon lollipop that also has [...]

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This week’s Music Monday band is Hip Chip with there single “One Pure Thought”. I have talked about this band a few times before. If you haven’t checked them out yet now would be a good time.

Yes I know it’s dance music, but if you eat a lot of bacon dancing [...]

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