Bringing Home The Bacon: And The Winner Is...
HERE'S WHAT'S COOKING
AND THE WINNER OF OUR BACON HAIKU CONTEST IS…
WITH THE ECONOMY TAKING, WE WANTED to do our part to get it cooking again. Our method? A bacon haiku contest. We promised the writer of what we voted the best haiku a $100 gift certificate donated by
Nueske's Famous Applewood Smoked Meats, acclaimed by none other than the famous New York Times's foodie R.W. Apple Jr.
The end result was less than sizzling with 13 haikus filling our comment box. We deduced that enthusiasm was obviously smothered by the breakout of the unfortunately named "Swine Flu," which slandered pigs worldwide and even empowered the Egyptian government to call for the slaughter of 400,000 hogs without ONE case of the flu in their country. (That was just so wrong.)
But perhaps I'm just greedy for more, more, more when comes to anything having to do with corn-fed greasy goodness!
And honestly and truly, 13 is my lucky number, so I will be grateful for that fortuitous number of haikus. (Born on Friday the 13th!)
So without further ado, we reveal the winners of the 2009 CrabbyGolightly Economic Stimulation Package:
In third place, winning a handy plastic wallet is Mitchel Ahern, our most enthusiastic participant, entering count 'em -- five haikus. Thank you, Mitchel! We had a hard time deciding which of his entries but ultimately we settled on this subtle entry:
Oh bacon sprinkles
Turn my salad into meat
Load my potato
Coming in second and winning 20 U.S. stamps depicting bacon is MongoPhi who captured the fundamental essence of bacon with this entry:
The smell wakes me
Crisp pork in a frying pan
Ahhh, it's bacon time
And, drum roll please, please congratulate NoisyNora for her winning haiku, netting her $100 gift certificate from
Nueske's Bacon, about which one
Amazon.com customer reviewer wrote, "You'll eat this bacon and weep because you'll realize what you've been missing all these years."
The winning entry?
You invade my dreams
I awaken to your smell
Who's frying bacon?
Thanks to all you who played! And to NoisyNora we ask: when are you cooking us breakfast?
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