In a land that celebrates wine, salmon and microbrew, it came to pass that on Saturday it was bacon's turn to belly up to the gastro-festival bar.
"Why?" said Mike Smith, 31, of Seattle. "Bacon's awesome!"
Smith was surrounded by a few hundred people who didn't need convincing.
They lined up deep at Portland Baconfest 2010 for samples of bacon and pork meatballs, bacon-flavor-infused vodka with Bloody Mary mix, bacon-wrapped hot dogs, Bacon brand skateboards, creamy bacon spread, Baconnaise (the overachiever in the group) and cupcakes with bacon sprinkles.
"If they'd made bacon beer," said Jonathan Dehaan, 28, of Northeast Portland, dressed in an 8-foot-tall foam bacon-strip costume, "I would've drunk it. But they didn't. So now I may have to do it. Lots of home-brewing around here, man."
Source: The Oregonian