Today I woke up to the most amazing email from L:
Subject Line: whatcha doing tonight
Body:
im not going to this but i totally think this screams your name.
http://thrillist.com/links/2348616/aHR0cDovL3d3dy5iYWNvbmVyeS5jb20v/direct
Its called Baconry and its a bakery that puts bacon into anything it
makes. Its online but they are having a launch party tonight where
they will be giving away there stuff.Party at 730p tonight at Tenth Rail: 413 10th Ave, nr 33rd St; Hell’s
Kitchen; 212.643.0873Website
Read more: http://thrillist.com/food/new-york/baconery_american_bacon_breakfast_delivery_online-shops_snacks_websites#ixzz1ZFKQWkaA
WHAT!!! OBVIOUSLY I’LL GO. I immediately gchatted the only other friend I have who is almost as enthusiastic about food as I am — J. I knew I could count on her. After emailing this out to my closest 20 friends, she was of course the only one who wrote back. I know my friends well. Fuck the rest of you.
Because this sounded like an amazing event, J and I were concerned about how much free food we would actually be able to score at this event, thinking this launch event would clearly be over capacity. The event started at 7:30pm, so just to be safe, we decided to meet up at 6:45pm so we could get “front row seats” at this launch event and ensure enough bacon consumption.
When we got there, we realized we were in the shit hole of Manhattan — all the way on 10th Ave where I hardly recognized the city anymore, and this restaurant was next to the largest McDonald’s I’d ever seen in the city (it was two floors, what!!). Seriously, what was this place, and where the fuck was I. J and I sucked it up, went inside, had a happy hour drink while we waited for the crowds to arrive.
The crowds never arrived, but the party did begin promptly at 7:40pm, and it started with some appetizers that were amazing looking but had no resemblance of bacon.
Chicken/beef skewers and vegetable quesadillas
Pulled pork sliders
Lots of good food. No bacon. What was going on?!?! I thought the sliders were bacon sliders, but no sign of bacon.
After chugging two more $3 margaritas, the Baconery goods finally started to appear. It was every kind of baked good you could imagine, all filled with bacon — bacon pumpkin muffins, bacon brownies, bacon blueberry muffins, bacon rice krispie treats, bacon chocolate chip cookies, bacon oatmeal raisin cookies, bacon M&M cookies. It was absurd.
Bacon pumpkin muffin
Bacon brownies
Bacon rice krispie treats
@Baconery was getting at it.
At the end of this event, J and I were so full we didn’t even want to start to think about Rosh Hashanah. We had eaten way too much pig to start the high holidays so soon. Whatevs. In the words of Ana Gasteyer’s son on Curb Your Enthusiasm: “GET A LIFE JEWS.”
Shana Tova!
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