Buster Dog BBQ

On Saturday me, Dawn and Chad went to Baconfest at the Scottish Rite.  Wasn’t sure what to expect. This was the third annual fest and it has grown to 600 people.  Tickets sold out in 20 minutes.  Next year it sounds like they will plan for 1500 people.

Waiting for the doors to open we saw bacon man.

Then once we got in we were greeted with bacon bloody mary’s made with Bakon vodka and fresh bacon bits on top.  Actually not too bad but needs to be stirred well.

And members from the Des Moines women’s rugby team were on skates rolling around with platters of food.  This lady is offering us maple frosted doughnuts with bacon topping.

We heard Oh Bacon about 500 times

They even had Elvis sing the national anthem and he really sang like Elvis.  I might start a new trend next year.  When they said “home of the” I yelled bacon.  Much like Chiefs when in KC at a game.

There were four or five companies that make bacon and all had two chaffing dishes full of bacon at each one and you basically took a plate and heaped on the bacon.  We could only handle so much but some people were like they haven’t ate bacon ever.  I told Chad and Dawn I was starting to sweat bacon grease.

All day long about every 30 minutes some new bacon food came around. This was bacon wrapped pineapple and apricots.

Jason who is the inventor of the Bacon Explosion that got so much national publicity last year is parading a bacon explosion through the crowd.

This is a pizza from Fongs Pizza with cream cheese instead of sauce.  It is topped with bacon, sausage, onion, roasted peppers and green peppers.  It was pretty good but way too rich for a second piece.

At this point Chad and I took a break to go listen to Templeton Rye talk.  Best thing was shots at the end.

This is a chocolate chip pancake muffin  with with maple syrup and buttermilk, topped with milk chocolate bacon buttercream.  Good stuff.

Chocolate dipped bacon.  Could have been a little saltier to make the flavors equal.  Couldn’t eat the whole thing and this was something we were all looking forward to.

This was really good.  It is Bacon Banana’s Foster.  The syrup is made with Templeton Rye.  It was topped with bacon.  This is Chad’s half.  This stuff went so fast they couldn’t get out of the kitchen.

Maple Bacon Butter Pecan Ice Cream. Hand churned ice cream with bacon blended in.  Not bad but not as good as the banana’s foster.

At this point we were baconed out.  We missed the bacon chocolate chip cookies and the bacon caramel popcorn.  Honestly I needed a gallon of water to recover.  All that bacon and cheap beer like PBR, Coors and Miller High Life will do things to your body you don’t want to know about.  The festival had a shuttle to high life lounge to continue celebrating bacon but no way we were up for that.