So This Is Christmas

Merry Christmas is such an infectious feeling I like to feel that way all year around.

So if you are visiting just before Christmas, just after Christmas or even here on Christmas day I am sure you will find something of interest for you and in the spirit of Christmas.

It may be said that Christmas is no longer a celebration but this must be spoken by people that have never had trouble closing their eyes on Christmas Eve in an expectation of what maybe left for them on the carpet under the tree.

I continue to look forward to the surprise on my Grandchild's faces to this day at Christmas events.

Merry Christmas - Merry Christmas - Merry Christmas

Thursday, December 13, 2012

Will The Bacon King's Bacon T-Shirts Be A Big Hit?

By Matthew Bendis


It seems to me that every single tiny town in rural America has a festival week. These festivals bring the community together for a week of fun events, usually a fair, a few pageants, some concerts, and (in my town's case) a big food contest. These festivals always represent something that was important to the town's development, such as the Soybean Festival and Peanut Festivals. Our town has the distinction of being a major distributor of pork, so we have the esteemed Pig Fest. Since pork is awesome and delicious, our town's cooking contest is the centerpiece of a week-long event, and I feel that me and my bacon t-shirts are going to be big winners this year.

The Pig Festival has been going on in my town since forever, and the recipe contest has always been a huge part of it. People come up with awesome ways to cook up some delicious pork, and then make enough for a panel of judges to eat and then make a ruling on. Many of the contestants, like myself, make cool pork or bacon t-shirts to give away or sell at their booth. The competition gets really heated, and many of the locals get really into it. The awesome dishes that the contestants make don't hurt either.

There are three restaurants that serve BBQ here in town, and they are always in a really intense competition to outdo each other. Each of them has won the main prize several times through the years, but so have individual cooks who have competed. This is my third year as an entrant. There are a couple of guys that I've developed a friendly rivalry with, and one guy who blatantly stole an idea of mine last year who I plan on crushing completely. It was pretty embarrassing to show up last year with the exact same recipe and the exact same bacon t-shirts.

My bacon t-shirts this year feature an awesome full-color image of my recipe, with the name of the sandwich at top: "Bacon on Bacon Crime." I plan on weaving a three lattices of bacon together to create large sheet of bacon, and then put those sheets in the smoker for 7 hours. I will then layer sharp cheddar cheese between the layers and then roll it all up tightly into an amazing bacon log. Slices from this bacon log will then be used to create a massive bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich that will inevitably cause vegans to cry themselves to sleep. I have no doubt that I have a chance at victory this year.

All of my entry dishes in previous years have been powered by bacon, and many of the contest fans have begun calling me "The Bacon King". I can't think of a more awesome title, and I'm hoping that this year will solidify my rule in the hearts and minds of my loyal subjects. I had 200 bacon t-shirts made featuring my monster "Bacon on Bacon Crime" sandwich, and I want to see all of them given away. I may be getting a bit haughty here, but I can already see the Pig Cup trophy sitting on my mantle. I am the Bacon King...hear me roar.




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