{"id":1410,"date":"2015-03-23T22:41:39","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T04:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cuchicago.edu\/spectator\/?p=1410"},"modified":"2015-03-23T22:41:39","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T04:41:39","slug":"you-had-me-at-bacon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/?p=1410","title":{"rendered":"You Had Me at Bacon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by\u00a0Roma Avila<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is official, CUC will see it\u2019s first ever Bacon Fest. The dining hall will pay tribute to our porky little friend by featuring specialty dishes over a three-day period. The event\u00a0is scheduled to take place starting on Tuesday March 24 leading to a dinnertime grand finale on Thursday. Aside from the crisp smell of bacon overwhelming the KCC, here is what the chefs will be serving up each day&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday will kick off the fest. Students can head over to the Crossroads Dining Hall during lunchtime and try \u201cthe lighter side of bacon\u201d, which will be a salad to compliment the\u00a0Cracked Pepper And Cumin Crusted BLT. Yes, you read that correctly; it tastes\u00a0as amazing as it sounds.<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, expect pizza. It sounds traditional, but not when it is loaded. The dining hall will have a Loaded Baked Potato Pizza, so come hungry. There will also be a Honky Tonk Bomber, which contains nuts, but Elvis loved fried peanut butter and bananas \u2013 so this dish will\u00a0honor the king with a little bit of bacon heaven.<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thursday will be a little different. Plan on a light lunch to save room for the bacon decadence at dinner. \u00a0The meal will be a swipe plus event, meaning, for an extra $5, you can indulge in some of the following\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Top Your Own Red Skin Mashed Potatoes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Bacon Lardons<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Herb Crusted Bacon Wrapped Pork Loin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Chocolate Covered Bacon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Maple Glazed Bacon Bites<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But the menu doesn\u2019t stop there as the dining hall chef promises to have more items that will leave your belly feeling pleased.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to do a bacon fest because we wanted to bring something unique to the campus community. We really wanted to listen to what the students demanded and asked for,\u201d says Jerry Williams, a Concordia senior and marketing intern with Sodexo.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you love bacon or you are just too curious to pass this up, stop by the Crossroads Dining Hall and try some of the delicious bacon concoctions the Sodexo chefs have created.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by\u00a0Roma Avila \u00a0 It is official, CUC will see it\u2019s first ever Bacon Fest. The dining hall will pay tribute to our porky little friend by featuring specialty dishes over a three-day period. The event\u00a0is scheduled to take place starting on Tuesday March 24 leading to a dinnertime grand finale on Thursday. Aside from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concordia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}