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Michigan Pirate Festival

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Did you know that there are pirates in Michigan? Aparently there is a group that sails the 5 lakes (as opposed to the 7 seas) known as the Brethren of the Great Lakes.

Well, in late breaking pirate news, there is currently a pirate festival going on (Aug. 3rd – 8th) in Grand Haven, Michigan. So if you live around there and you read this blog, you should probably go check that out.

As a side note, I’d just like to point out that the “pirate lord” of Lake Michigan is known as Count d’Booty. Really? Count d’Booty? I mean, I guess when he picked his pirate name he didn’t necessarily know he would grow up to hold the position of pirate lord, but still.

In other news, last night I ate cheese. Cheese with bacon inside of it!

Bacon Product Review

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Given the number of bacon products out there, it is important to have good recommendations on what sorts of bacon products you should spend your precious bacon eating time on. Therefore, check out this link in which they ate, and reviewed, one ridiculous bacon filled meal consisting of:

Bacon Freak Maple Bacon Pancakes, Bacon Freak bacon jerky, skillet bacon jam, Spam with bacon, bacon-flavored jellybeans, bacon-flavored gumballs, and bacon-flavored toothpicks.

I’m not sure if I can trust their reactions, since they enjoyed batter blasters. However, we do seem to have the same tastes, since they have also reviewed bacon vodka, bacon salt, and bacon chocolate.

Anyway, I enjoyed the humor of the article, including the Clerks reference at the end. And for the record, I’m totally on board with bacon flavored toothpicks.

Is there anything bacon can’t do?

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If you said cut through steel, you’d be wrong:

If you like to make home made blow torches but are vegetarian/vegan, you can follow the link for the vegan version, involving a cucumber and some bread sticks.

Bacon Bits

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What happens when you combine two great things, space invaders and bacon? You get a fantastic shirt from WOOT.com.

My favorite part was:

“I’m gonna wait for the bacon to steal my guy and then rescue him back and then I’ll have two guys at once to shoot at the… wait, then I’ll have to share my bacon.”

I was always torn if I should get my guy get captured (which seems like a failure of some sort) vs. the power of having two guys at once.

Anyway, hurry up and order, I believe you only have until the end of the day!

I’m glad everyone is thinking of me, since I received this link from Meg, Tony, and Jackie (congrats on engagement btw!)

Check back tomorrow for the regular Monday Evie update…there are things a foot! (that’s a pun, but you won’t get it until tomorrow)

The Mitch Morgan

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The next time you are out in a bar, make sure to ask for a Mitch Morgan:

If you can’t tell from the picture, a Mitch Morgan basically consists of bourbon and a strip of bacon.  Now I’m on record as saying many of the bacon things you people send to me sound disgusting. Sure, if I was on fear factor and had to eat something disgusting, it would only be improved by adding bacon. But when I’m in the privacy of my own home, I don’t have to mix snack bars and bacon, I can eat snack bars and bacon separately.

That being said, I think the Mitch Morgan actually sounds good, and for sure sounds better than bacon flavored vodka. I wasn’t really sure why, but I think the link originator and I sussed it out:

Jackie: “It’s the crunchy. Bacon needs that texture.”
Me: “Yeah, exactly! Plus, somehow bacon goes with bourbon and also you are just getting a taste of the bacon with the bourbon, rather than the bourbon being inundated with bacon, you know?”
Jackie: “And, ultimately, you can totally imagine a chunk of meat marinated in bourbon and then covered with a bourbon sauce and crumbled bacon.”

So there you have it, two of the finest bacon scholars determining why the Mitch Morgan gets my vote, even though I’ve never tried one.