Thursday, May 3, 2012

Winning The Pig Cup With The Help Of Some Bacon T-Shirts

By Nicholas Bendis


If you happen to be from a rural area, then you are probably familiar with a habit that small towns have of throwing festivals once a year. These festivals usually encompass all of the downtown area and are a pretty big deal. All of these festivals are themed toward something that holds a big significance for the area. Are there tons of cotton farmers in the area? Well, you'll probably be attending a Cotton Festival sometime that year. Our town has Pig Fest, because of all of the pig farms and the pork processing plant here in town. There is always a big cook-off with prizes awarded to the best, and I plan on winning this year. My entry name? Bacon on Bacon Crime. I even have bacon t-shirts to give away.

If you are a huge animal activist or a vegetarian, you should probably turn back now, because our pig festival is all about the divine swine. The highlight of the festival is the cooking contest, where the only rule is that pork has to be the main ingredient. People come from miles around to try unique and creative dishes that are prepared for sampling and judging. You can literally get full, just from walking around and taking a bite of each dish. Contestants always make pork or bacon t-shirts to hand out, and the whole thing has become something of a ceremony.

All of the restaurants enter teams to compete each year, and many have won multiple times...especially the places the specialize in smoked bar-b-que. No favoritism is showed and many locals have won as well, since all of the judges are semi-famous local celebrities from out-of-town. I am entering for the third time this year, and I already have my awesome bacon t-shirts made. My recipe is home-made goodness, and I really feel like a titan coming into this competition this year.

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.

Since all of my previous concoctions have been bacon-themed, I know that this year will cement me in the minds of my fans as "The Bacon Dude". Each one of these BLT sandwiches weighs in at a monstrous 1 pound, and I plan on making 30 of them to cut up for samples. I have a secret blend of rubbing spices that I will be using on the bacon, so don't even try to steal my ideas! The cherished Pig Cup trophy is coming home with The Bacon Dude this year and everyone is going to be wearing my bacon t-shirts next fall!




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