Denny's Corporation

Watch that bacon!

Here's something to absolutely make your Friday complete! Not only is it the last day of the workweek... not only is St. Patrick's Day this weekend... but it's time for Baconalia!

That's right, folks! Denny's is celebrating everyone's favorite taste treat -- bacon -- in its annual wild and porky feeding frenzy!

This year's Baconalia menu is even more decadent (and dare-worthy) than last year's and includes caramel- and bacon-stuffed French toast; BBQ bacon mac 'n cheese bites; a salted caramel and bacon brownie sundae; and a maple bacon milk shake in addition to the usual bacon slams, burgers, and BLTs.



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Ian Witlen

Turkey on whole-wheat bread is so passé nowadays. What the public really wants is bacon.

Juicy, greasy slabs of cured pork belly, by the pounds; in as many preparations as possible and dipped in and/or wrapped around as many highly caloric food items-- such as chocolate and chicken wings,--imaginable. That is the central idea behind BaconFest, a hedonistic, triglyceride inducing, throw-the-weight-scale-aside, hog-lovers event that took Chicago and New York by storm and then moved towards us. On Saturday night, South Florida had its share of this beastly bacon affair.

A sellout for several weeks, this pig pantheon was a resounding success at the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek. South Florida evidently loves its swine just about as much as the rest of the country.

Chef Todd Fisher, from Discovery's Destination America network show, United States of Bacon, hosted what we called our own pork-a-palooza. The lines were long and the bellies were bursting all night long as the packed crowd sampled bacon-inspired items from local eateries like Big City Tavern and Caffe Luna Rosa and savored bacon infused delights from La Marquise Desserts and Susy Pops.

We loaded up on Lipitor, braved the hungered mega-carnivorous masses and prepared to pig out (pun all the way) on all the creative offerings incorporating the other white meat.

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Win a pair of BaconFest tickets.

Now that Valentine's Day has come and gone, don't think romance has gone out the window for the next 364 days of the year.

Clean Plate Charlie invites you to fall in love all over again...with bacon!

We're talking BaconFest Florida, the porkiest, meatiest....baconiest...event to come to south Florida.

On Saturday, February 23 at 6 p.m. celebrate your love of bacon at the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek where two dozen of your favorite restaurants will provide you with fantastic food all made with one key ingredient (you guessed it) -- bacon!

Read also:
- BaconFest Coming to Seminole Coconut Creek: Gettin Piggy With It.
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BaconFest: Eat like there's no tomorrow.

Bacon Fest, the all-things-porky event that's coming to the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek on Saturday, February 23, has announced its restaurant and food lineup -- and it's nothing short of spectacular.

For one evening and one evening only, forget your sodium and cholesterol intake and go crazy on nature's pig candy. Bacon!

Read Also: Bacon Fest Coming to Town: Gettin Piggy With It



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All photos by Nicole Danna

Bacon in a basket, free for Friday's bacon happy hour at Gypsy's Horse Irish Pub.

Nothing beats bacon. And we're pretty sure that means nothing beats a bacon happy hour, either.

It seems the staff at The Gypsy's Horse Irish Pub in Wellington think so, too. After all, they're claiming to be the first and only establishment in the Broward or Palm Beach County area to implement a free "bacon happy hour."

See also:
- Baconfest Coming to Seminole Casino Coconut Creek Next Month

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BaconFest

BaconFest is coming to town.

BaconFest Florida is coming to town!

Now that we have your attention, BaconFest, which is exactly what it sounds like (a celebration of all things pig-related), is coming to the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek on Saturday, February 23 at 6 p.m.

This event, which is (duh) popular in Chicago, Kansas City and New York, is finally making its way to south Florida.

Chef Todd Fischer from Discovery's Destination America show United States of Bacon will host the event, which features bacon-inspired food from 20 south Florida restaurants, a chef throw-down where toques must make the best dishes in both sweet and savory categories, and other fun bacon-related activities (we're not sure what that means -- but we're in).
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Seattle Weekly

We'd eat food off that body.

Some lucky bastard got to eat a piece of Iberico ham off of Padma Lakshmi's body last evening.

No, it's not some lame Top Chef dream sequence. This really happened. In front of thousands of people. And that man was some stranger. OK -- he did donate $1,000 to charity, so we guess it's all good.

According to the Washington Post, the meat-eating occurred at the annual Capital Food Fight, a food & wine event benefiting DC Central Kitchen.

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Elle's

Porketarians unite!

The third annual Porketarian dinner series at Elle's is happening this weekend and if you're the kind of person who thinks it's divine to dine on swine (with optional wine), then you'll want to read on.

Elle's chef/partner Luci Rosende has put together a menu featuring as much pork, bacon, and ham as you could possibly fit into a multiple course dinner -- so sit back, make a pig of yourself, and enjoy the ride.

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Lara604 via Flickr Creative Commons

Better enjoy this while it lasts, say the pork-product party poopers.

Bacon lovers -- which, judging from the entirety of the internet, covers roughly 95 percent of you -- were majorly bummed when, earlier this month, 40,000 pounds of bacon were ruined in a highway accident in Illinois.

In light of information from Britain's National Pig Association (NPA), that homegrown bacon loss has taken on a new sense of tragedy. According to our porcine-minded friends across the pond, the "European Union pig herd" is shrinking at an alarming rate. The Brits have launched a "Save Our Bacon" campaign asking shoppers to select pork and bacon products bearing a particular label to support British pig farmers.

See also:
- 40,000 Pounds of Bacon Get Ruined in Accident (Video)
- Watching as a Whole Hog Becomes Bacon and Ribs and Everything Else

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CINews

Forty thousand pounds of bacon was in this truck.

What do you call an accident that leaves 40,000 pounds of bacon just sitting on the side of a highway? If you said "massive fail," you'd be correct.

That's what happened in Peoria, Illinois, when a Wenger Trucking Co. semi overturned, spilling its precious porcine cargo all over the median. According to WMBD Radio, the 57-year-old driver was unharmed.

Unfortunately, the bacon did not make it.

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