BACONFEST COMING TO IOWA STATE!

[ISUCyclones2015]

AWWWW YEA! I am totally gonna win that bacon eating contest

Iowa State introduces BaconFest - Iowa State Daily: News

 

[CynadoAlley]

YYYYYEEEEEESSSSSS!!! :yes::yes:

 

[scyclonekid]

******* awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[bosco]

These bacon festivals are driving up the price of bacon and it pisses me off.

 

[cmjh10]

[video=youtube;gRj3zAqMaRE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRj3zAqMaRE[/video]

 

[CycloneNorth]

I'm graduating a semester too early.

 

[CYlent Bob]

Don't be too sure about winning the bacon eating contest. I competed in the first two bacon eating contests at the Blue Ribbon Bacon Fest at El Bait Shop/The High Life Lounge in 2008 and 2009, and it's not quite as easy as you would think.

First, they only gave you ONE glass of water to wash it down with. That's one glass of water for five minutes of eating bacon at full speed.

Second, they overcooked the bacon both times. Not overcooked like cheap all-you-can-eat buffet bacon sitting under the heat lamps for 3 hours, but more crispy than chewy. That plays hell on your cheeks and tongue, and your throat feels like you're swallowing glass by the end. Plus, see point #1 again. Hard bacon & limited water is a bad combination.

Third, they had the bacon eating contest at about 2pm. That's at least 4 hours of sitting around drinking PBR and sampling bacon dishes at the festival. You COULD sit in a corner listening to "Eye of the Tiger" on your earphones and foregoing any bacon at the festival, but why? You're there to eat free bacon & have fun. Doing otherwise is just crazy. Especially when you don't win anything but bragging rights when you win the contest.

My attitude was "I'm going to enter the contest, eat some bacon, and I will finish where I finish." I figured that getting to eat bacon on someone else's dime meant that I won, even if I didn't "win". Know what I mean?

 

[BigM]

so basically it will be fall veishea with bacon?

 

[CycloneRulzzz]

[video=youtube;CErapf79rqM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CErapf79rqM[/video]

 

[SenorCy]

 

[Clonebydesign]

Don't be too sure about winning the bacon eating contest. I competed in the first two bacon eating contests at the Blue Ribbon Bacon Fest at El Bait Shop/The High Life Lounge in 2008 and 2009, and it's not quite as easy as you would think.

First, they only gave you ONE glass of water to wash it down with. That's one glass of water for five minutes of eating bacon at full speed.

Second, they overcooked the bacon both times. Not overcooked like cheap all-you-can-eat buffet bacon sitting under the heat lamps for 3 hours, but more crispy than chewy. That plays hell on your cheeks and tongue, and your throat feels like you're swallowing glass by the end. Plus, see point #1 again. Hard bacon & limited water is a bad combination.

Third, they had the bacon eating contest at about 2pm. That's at least 4 hours of sitting around drinking PBR and sampling bacon dishes at the festival. You COULD sit in a corner listening to "Eye of the Tiger" on your earphones and foregoing any bacon at the festival, but why? You're there to eat free bacon & have fun. Doing otherwise is just crazy. Especially when you don't win anything but bragging rights when you win the contest.

My attitude was "I'm going to enter the contest, eat some bacon, and I will finish where I finish." I figured that getting to eat bacon on someone else's dime meant that I won, even if I didn't "win". Know what I mean?

You my friend have life figured out, well done, well done indeed.

 

[Mtowncyclone13]

Don't be too sure about winning the bacon eating contest. I competed in the first two bacon eating contests at the Blue Ribbon Bacon Fest at El Bait Shop/The High Life Lounge in 2008 and 2009, and it's not quite as easy as you would think.

First, they only gave you ONE glass of water to wash it down with. That's one glass of water for five minutes of eating bacon at full speed.

Second, they overcooked the bacon both times. Not overcooked like cheap all-you-can-eat buffso just because i cry after sex means its bad?et bacon sitting under the heat lamps for 3 hours, but more crispy than chewy. That plays hell on your cheeks and tongue, and your throat feels like you're swallowing glass by the end. Plus, see point #1 again. Hard bacon & limited water is a bad combination.

Third, they had the bacon eating contest at about 2pm. That's at least 4 hours of sitting around drinking PBR and sampling bacon dishes at the festival. You COULD sit in a corner listening to "Eye of the Tiger" on your earphones and foregoing any bacon at the festival, but why? You're there to eat free bacon & have fun. Doing otherwise is just crazy. Especially when you don't win anything but bragging rights when you win the contest.

My attitude was "I'm going to enter the contest, eat some bacon, and I will finish where I finish." I figured that getting to eat bacon on someone else's dime meant that I won, even if I didn't "win". Know what I mean?

 

[CYvilEng]

These bacon festivals are driving up the price of bacon and it pisses me off.

This! Pork belly prices are going crazy. Please stop these darn events so belly prices calm down.

 

[Blandboy]

This! Pork belly prices are going crazy. Please stop these darn events so belly prices calm down.

Well, it IS a pork thing!

 

[CYvilEng]

Well, it IS a pork thing!

Yes pork is going up, but now butchers are selling pork belly at the same price as cured sliced bacon. I can't say that I blame them but it's a pain.

 

[Wesley]

A Des Moines celebration McGlade described as “an Aksarben Ball of bacon” spurred the idea to do something similar in Omaha. McGlade, too, had noticed the increasing number of craft beer bars and events in Omaha and figured it couldn't hurt to combine Omaha's affinity for fine beer with America's current fixation on bacon.