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This Week in Bacon
I have always secretly believed that all good things come from the mind of a Des Moines insurance salesman. Via Coldmud and the Des Moines Register, I learn that Brooks Reynolds, an insurance salesman from Des Moines, has proven me correct.
[W]hen Brooks Reynolds was asked the question Des Moines always asks itself - “What does Des Moines need?” - this is what he said:
“A festival for bacon.”
Thus, the High Life Lounge will hold its first Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival March 1, National Pig Day, attracting bacon lovers from California and Arizona along with a Pittsburgh bacon blogger.
To Reynolds, it was no throwaway line. For years, he has gathered his buddies for a summer weekend pilgrimage to a Spirit Lake cabin for “all things bacon,” toting along 15 pounds.
When they returned, their wives and girlfriends complained their very skin smelled like bacon grease.
“Why not bring it to the masses?” asked Reynolds, 32, a Des Moines insurance salesman.
You’ve still got a couple of weeks to figure out how to get yourself to Iowa to take part in the March 1 National Bacon Day festivities at the highly rated High Life Lounge. $30 gets you a bunch of bacon-themed goodies, cheap beer, and a “bacon lecture”. There’s even a bacon-eating contest.
Barring a trip to Iowa — as winter, distance, and Iowa’s very Iowa-ness do for me — you can find more locally bacon-friendly things to engage in at Serious Eats, which had a fantastic rundown of all the things to eat and places to eat them at for last year’s National Bacon Day.
