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The Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival is an annual festival in Des Moines Iowa. Founded by members of the Iowa Bacon Board the festival sold 200 tickets to the first festival in 2008. Today the bacon celebration has grown to host approximately 14000 bacon-lovers in all. Ticket holders can compete in a bacon-eating contest listen to lectures about bacon and sample bacon from vendors. Festival organizers have extended the celebration internationally through the Blue Ribbon Bacon Tour.