Bacon mania

Newer bacon creations have joined more traditional foods like the BLT, Cobb salad, clams casino, and club sandwich.

[1] The Portland Monthly noted that "Bacon is such a quintessential breakfast staple, even vegetarians stake a claim to their own versions.

[21][29] The San Francisco Weekly reported on the first "BaconCamp" held "in solidarity with the growing popularity of events (see the recent Grilled Cheese Invitational)" and reported that the event "demonstrated just how much of a high bacon is currently on in terms of notoriety and how far people are able to stretch one culinary theme".

[30] The event included lectures on bacon as art, a PowerPoint presentation of the Obacon project (a recreation of the famous Obama Hope poster), as well as judging and awards.

[30] The slide show from the event includes a wide range of innovative food and decorative bacon entities.

[31] The San Francisco Weekly advised those attending to live, breathe, and smell like it and to bring a bacon dish.

[5] On February 28, 2009, the second annual Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival in Des Moines Iowa hosted a sell-out event for more than 300 people.

[35][36][37] First held March 1, 2008, on National Pig Day, it was founded by Brooks Reynolds,[38] and the 2013 sold 8000 tickets in three minutes.