All the glitter – and kitsch – of Las Vegas comes to
Des Moines:
Tickets for the seventh annual Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival go on sale
at 12:12 p.m. Dec. 12. The event will be held Feb. 1 at the Elwell
Family Food Center, William C. Knapp Varied Industries Building and the
Richard O. Jacobson Exhibition Center at the Iowa State Fairgrounds in
Des Moines. This year’s theme is “Viva Las Bacon: What happens at
baconfest …,” and, yes, some lucky couples will be able to get married
in a Vegas-themed “Chapel O’ Bacon.”
“Vegas taught us that it’s OK
to enjoy life’s guilty pleasures every now and then; and Elvis showed
us that bacon goes particularly well with peanut butter and bananas,”
festival co-founder Brooks Reynolds said.
General admission
tickets will cost $45 and include a shirt, beverage koozie, $5 in Bacon
Bucks and two beverage tickets along with unlimited bacon samples.
Perhaps they were inspired by
this June 2013 wedding:
One San Diego couple tied the knot Sunday, united by their love for each other -- and bacon. Adrienne Dunvan and Eddie Quinones won a contest to get married during the Big Bite Bacon Fest at the San Diego County Fair in a bacon-themed celebration. The couple, who bonded over their love of Puerto Rican pork shoulder, walked down a bacon-printed carpet to the altar, where local radio station Star 94.1 DJ Jesse Lozano officiated the ceremony, according to a press release.
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