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Bacon Bash: A day to celebrate one of Pittsburgh favorite foods, BACON!

Pittsburgh’s only bacon event, Bacon Bash, will take place at the Harris Grill in Shady Side on Saturday, August 14 from 11 am to 4 pm. Bacon Bash follows last year’s Blue Ribbon Bacon Tour stop in Pittsburgh, which saw more than 85 people the day after the G20 summit. Event organizers Jason Mosley (better known as Mr. Baconpants) and the Harris Grill plan to take what they did for the Blue Ribbon Bacon Tour and kick it up a notch for Bacon Bash.

“We want to make this a yearly gathering of bacon lovers” said Mosley.

To help do that Sugardale Foods, a leading supplier of smoked meats based in Canton, OH, will supply bacon for the event along with a few other bacon purveyors. Sugardale will also help promote the event and are excited to increase their exposure in Western PA.

Several bacon appetizers and small plates will be served at Bacon Bash. The event also will feature the Bacon Eating Contest for a chance to win fabulous bacon prizes.

Tickets are $35 and go on sale online at Store.MrBaconpants.com and at the Harris Grill (412.362.5273) July 1, 2010. Bacon Bash is Pittsburgh’s only bacon enthusiast celebration and tickets are limited, so to be sure to claim yours today.

Jason Mosley, aka “Mr. Baconpants”, is a local blogger and bacon enthusiast. Other Mosley blogs include Startup Pittsburgh and OMG! Play This. Posts written by him have appeared on Crunch Gear, Mobile Crunch, and Touch Arcade.

The Harris Grill, known for it’s “Tuesday Bacon Night” in which post-happy hour patrons are treated to free bacon, is located at 5747 Ellsworth Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15232. Hours of operation are Monday through Saturday, 11 am to 2 am, with Sunday brunch from 10 am to 3 pm.

2010 Bacon Bash Details:

• When: Saturday, August, 14th, 2010 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM
• Where: Harris Grill
  5747 Ellsworth Avenue
  Pittsburgh, PA 15232
  (412) 362-5273
• Tickets: $35 per person
• Ticket Includes: admission to the event, several bacon appetizers and small plates prepared by Harris Grill, one beverage ticket (draft beer or frozen cosmopolitan), optional entry in the bacon eating contest, and more.

Menu will include, but is not limited to: bacon pierogies, mini BLT sliders, bacon-wrapped meatballs, chocolate-covered bacon, bacon sushi, bacon horseradish spread with pretzels, bacon breadsticks, bacon shot glasses filled with cheesy mashed potatoes, bacon cupcake, and bacon wrapped tofu!

More details found here.

If you’re around my area (Philadelphia/Bucks/Montgomery counties), and you’d like to join in on, message me and we’ll coordinate some kind of driving pool. My truck comfortably seats six, and I’m sure we can get other vehicles together if more is needed.

How can you possibly make a bacon egg and cheese sandwich on a bagel even more awesome, you ask?  Why infusing all of those things into the bagel, of course!

From The Consumerist:

Have A Bacon, Egg & Cheese Sandwich On A Bacon, Egg & Cheese Bagel

Every morning, scores of people greet the day with a bacon, egg and cheese sandwich on a bagel. But a shop in Brooklyn has asked — Why not double up and bake those ingredients right into the bagel? Thus, we bring you the bacon, egg & cheese bagel.

“Everyone loves bacon. I don’t care who you are,” explains Scot Rossillo of The Bagel Stores in Brooklyn. “Even if you are a vegan, you at least love the smell of bacon.”

So, inspired by a Neapolitan specialty known as lard bread, Scot decided to add chunks of fresh-cooked bacon, ground black pepper and cheddar cheese to an egg bagel.

And you’ll never guess what he says is the best way to eat one:

“This bagel does not replace the texture of regular bacon, egg and cheese, but if you add bacon, egg and cheese to a bacon, egg and cheese bagel, it certainly increases the flavor. That’s very popular right now. It will heighten the experience for you to a new level of satisfaction.”

I’m tempted to throw a KFC Double Down between two halves of bacon, egg & cheese bagel just to see which part of my body shuts down first.

I’m sure Mr. Baconpants would approve too.

Original NY Daily News article: Bacon lovers, this bagel’s for you: Brooklyn baker crafts bacon, egg and cheese bagel