Holy pork rinds! It's Bacon Week :-)

[Jamie D]

BACON WEEK! Bacon Toothpaste, Bacon Bourbon, Bacon-Wrapped Bacon, All In One Festival

AP | Wayne Parry

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Get ready for bacon like you've never eaten, drunk or worn it before.

Bacon milkshakes. Chocolate-covered bacon shaped like roses. Bacon-flavored toothpaste, dental floss and lip balm. Bacon bourbon, margaritas, beer and vodka. Bacon ice cream sundaes. A BLT sandwich with a full pound of bacon.

They're all on the menu this week as one Atlantic City casino stretches the bounds of good taste and cardiovascular health with Bacon Week. The festival at the Tropicana Casino and Resort gives new meaning to the term "pigging out."

The idea of a bacon festival is not as far-fetched as it might sound. Americans eat about 1.5 billion pounds of bacon a year, according to the National Pork Board. And the website bacontoday.com counted nearly 30 bacon festivals around the country from late April through December 2013, many of whose tickets sold out in minutes.

Full article and video at the link.

How are you going to celebrate?

[Hikari]

This is awesome, then again, what I do is transport Bacon, so more bacon consumption = more work for me

[TheLance]

Oh. Muh jesus. That sounds like the best thing in the world. I want to go where these amazing bacon things exist! I love bacon.