Bacon! Bacon! Bacon! Now I have your attention did you know this week it is bacon week!
Where else but America would they celebrate a week devoted to the meaty strips?
Chocolate-covered bacon shaped like roses.
Bacon-flavored toothpaste, dental floss and lip balm. Bacon bourbon,
margaritas, milkshakes beer and vodka. Bacon ice cream sundaes. A bacon buttie with a full pound of bacon and many more meaty marvels are on offer at the festival deemed "Bacon Week" at the Atlantic City, New Jersey festival.
"Bacon is like heaven," said Nadina Fornia, of Egg Harbor Township. "If
you're going to die, die with bacon on your lips and a BLT in each
hand."
Chocolate covered bacon was one of the more luxury morsels on offer. "The first taste is chocolatey, then it's all bacon," said Melissa Ehrke, of Egg Harbor Township.
There was also a range of baconesque hygiene products "There are people that are just crazy for bacon," said Denise McGrath,
of Neptune City. "But bacon toothpaste or floss? I'm not that crazy."
The festival runs all week at the Tropicana Casino and throughout the city.
I think the UK needs a bacon festival, don't you?
Will Whitby