Denny's Baconalia! Win a trip to Baconfest 2011

I would be neglecting my duty to promote bacon if I didn't get my butt over here and spread the word about “Baconalia! A Celebration of Bacon.” at Denny's.

For a limited time, Denny's has added 7 new bacon dishes:
The Ultimate Bacon Breakfast, Bacon Flapjacks, Pepper Bacon and Eggs, Triple Bacon Sampler, BBBLT Sandwich, Bacon Meatloaf, and the Maple Bacon Sundae.



The Daily Bacon has actually been to Denny's to celebrate Baconalia and has a review and some pics on their blog. I can really appreciate the new menu:



Even better, to celebrate the launch of their new Baconalia celebration, Denny’s is giving away a trip for two to Chicago to attend the *sold out* Baconfest 2011 on April 9!

In addition, they are also giving away $100 Denny’s gift cards to five Second Prize winners.

To enter just visit the Denny’s Facebook page and click on the Baconfest Sweeps tab to enter your info.

I can't wait to visit Denny's, I wish there was one closer to me!

Friday Bacon Roundup

After a long and unnecessary delay (on my part), I'd like to announce the winner of the BaronBob.com Bacon Contest!

Lucky winner, Andrew Brusso, snagged himself a jar of Baconnaise, a tin of Bacon Strip Bandages, a box of Bacon Popcorn and one Shakey Bacon Plush Doll! Congrats to Andrew and thanks so much to Baron Bob for putting together this awesome giveaway.

Oh, and BaronBob has the Bacon Watch on clearance for only $16.95! Can't beat that.

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Earlier this year, Maple Leaf Foods commissioned a "For the Love of Bacon" survey in Canada and When asked to choose between bacon and sex, more than four in 10 (43%) of Canadians chose bacon. That's some serious love.

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20% off all shirts at www.rizzotees.com today only with coupon code BACONFRY

Bacon - You Like This
(stolen from The Bacon Nation)

The BA-K-47

This Is Freaking Ridiculous has turned up the heat in the all out "how ridiculous can you get" bacon war with the BA-K-47, a 1:1 scale AK-47 made out of bacon.





I gotta hand it to them, this is one of the most ingenious and creative bacon creations I've seen in a long time. Now the big question is, is this edible? If so, I stand 100% behind our constitutional Right to Bear (Bacon) Arms. If not, I'm kind of sad about all of the wasted bacon. Either way it's still cool as hell.

The BA-K-47 T-Shirt Contest

So the guys over at This Is Freaking Ridiculous are making a BA-K-47 t-shirt and holding a contest for the picture caption. The person who submits the winning caption will receive a free BA-K-47 t-shirt. Go leave a comment on their blog with your wittiest caption. Mine is already in and I've got my fingers crossed.

Cooking.com is looking for Bacon Recipes!

I found this on the Forum at Cooking.com:

We are in search of some good bacon recipes for a newsletter we're doing in a couple of weeks. We would love for you to submit your most decadent, quirky, or just plain comfort-filled bacon recipes to our site:

Submit your Bacon Recipe!

We would love these ASAP -- just give it a good intro as to what's so wonderful about the recipe and the bacon, and we just might feature you and your recipe.

Good Luck and let me know if you send them your recipe!

The Brooklyn Bacon Takedown

While I lament that I cannot attend the Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival that's sure to be a blast this weekend in Iowa, I am very excited about the upcoming Brooklyn Bacon Takedown.



Run by The Chili Takedown, this event is taking place on Sunday, March 29th, at Radegast Hall & Beer Garden in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Thirty bacon dishes go head to head. Anything and everything goes as long as it includes bacon. Only $10 to get in, taste all of the entries, and vote on the winner. And it's in a beer garden which is just like icing on the meat cake.

They already have 30 contestants but if anyone drops out they do have a waitlist going. You can email Matt Timms for more info.

Fortunately, I'm not about the cooking, I'm about the eating. I'll see you there.

The 'Do us a Flavour' Taste Test

Simon, a very nice guy from the UK wrote to me after seeing my post on the Walkers Crisps 'Do us a Flavour, Pick us a winner' contest, and asked if I would like some of those crazy flavored chips to try out. Well, Simon came through and mailed me a big box of chips from the U.K. Thanks so much Simon, it really was very, very generous of you.

As a reminder, the potato chip flavors that are up for votes in the contest are:

* Builder's Breakfast - Egg, bacon, sausage and beans
* Cajun Squirrel
* Chilli & Chocolate
* Onion Bhaji
* Crispy Duck & Hoisin
* Fish & Chips

My boyfriend and I did a taste test together and we really didn't agree on any of the flavors. I loved the Builder's Breakfast, which really did taste like cheesy scrambled eggs, and the Chilli & Chocolate, which stared out with a nice choco flavor and had some delayed heat at the end. His favorite was the Fish & Chips. The Cajun Squirrel wasn't bad, but I can't really compare it to squirrel so I would put it close to a roasted chicken flavor. The Onion Bhaji was ok if you like curry. I absolutely hated the Crispy Duck though.

I had some bags left over and a 2 hour lunch meeting today at work, so I brought the chips in for everyone to try. Here's a cell pic of the unsuspecting co-workers:



There was no consensus - some hated the Builder's Breakfast and some liked it. The Cajun Squirrel seemed to be a hit. I'm sending an email to my co-workers to see if I can get them to comment here and let us know what they think.

Either way, it was a lot of fun. If I saw these flavors at the store here in the U.S. I would have to try them at least once, but I'm not sure that I would go back for more. One thing I can say though, is that the chips really do taste like what they are supposed to taste like (the snozzberries taste like snozzberries). The Walkers Smokey Bacon chips though, they are aces. We need some good bacon potato chips in the States, you hear that Lays?

Random Bacon Stuff

First up, win 3 Jars of J&D’s Baconnaise from
I Hate My Messageboard just by telling them how you’d use the baconnaise. Hurry, the contest closes 11.59 PM CST February 15, 2009!

This Is Why You're Fat probably has some of the greatest culinary concotions I've seen. And some of the scariest. Either way, it's good. And bad. But mostly good.

Finally, I leave you with the The Meat Ship.

Win A One-Of-A-Kind Skull Plush

Not from me, I'm trying like hell to win one myself. These phenomenal creations are from the proprietor of Crookedart, Lana Crooks. Lana is looking for a name for her plush skull series and needs your help! You can enter the contest and learn more about her work at ToyCyte.com.

Lana is picking a winner from all comments received by Sunday, January 18th at 12noon PST, so hurry up and get your vote in if you want one of these special skulls.

Win a Bacon Mac ‘n Cheese from MomsReviews!

Momsreviews.net is choosing three lucky winners to each get a coupon good for a Premium Bacon Mac ‘n Cheese dinner at Pizza Hut. It's so easy to enter, there's no reason not to do it! You go now!

***Open to U.S. only, enter by September 28th at 9:00 AM EST.

Smithfield Recipe Contest!

News you can use! Smithfield is one of the supermarket bacons that I buy a lot. While I was looking up some bacon recipes, an ad caught my eye.

Smithfield.com is offering $30,000 for your best recipe! If you've got a great recipe that uses a Smithfield product and has 10 ingredients or less, they want to see it. They'll choose their favorite ten recipes from your submissions, announce the finalists in November and post the recipes on their website.

All finalists will compete for the grand prize of $30,000 cash and a chance to meet Paula Deen. They're also asking all website visitors to vote for their favorite recipe. The "People's Choice" winner will receive $5,000! The remaining eight finalist will get a Paula Deen Signature 12 piece steel and cookware set.

Now I'm not very original when it comes to recipes but I know a lot of the bacon lovers out there are. This seems like a great opportunity to let bacon shine in the spotlight like it should. Spread the word!