If you have been a follower for a while you may have seen I had the opportunity to interview Celebrity Chef, Richard Blais. He won the Celebrity Chef All Stars and was doing a promotion for the Pork Be Inspired Campaign when I was contacted about the chance to interview him. When I was preparing my questions and drooling over his pork recipes, I saw an ad to enter to win free pork for a year. After getting all the information that I needed for my interview I decided to enter the contest (as myself not the Domestic Diva) and filled out the form which in addition to my contact information also asked why I deserved to win free pork for a year.
Normally, an essay as an entry requirement might make me pass, but I felt inspired…I began typing and typing; the words flowed easily. I laughed at myself in parts and teared up in others. I painted a picture of my love of pork with words. Ham, bacon, tenderloin, bacon, ribs, bacon, sausage, bacon, chops, and bacon. Surely the pork people who would be picking a winner would feel my love for pig products after such a compelling essay.
I, Susan, would take my free pork and begin my own campaign; a campaign to make chicken the other white meat. No longer would pigs be second anything. Not while I was a winner. Pork would be number one in my house, and dammit, I’d do whatever I could to bring pork into the spotlight everywhere else.
Can you feel the love? Even Klout, an online tool that measures your online influence, says that I am an expert at bacon. No jokes, bacon. Thank you, Klout for picking up on the influences I’m spreading.
To sum up my love of pork, and especially bacon, I wrote a poem (cause you know how great my poems are):
Bacon, Bacon
Breakfast, Lunch, and even Dinner
Bacon, bacon is always a winner.
Eggs without bacon should be a crime
But cook ‘em in the grease and you’ve got a winner every time
Bacon is not just for pairing, wrapping can be fun
Seafood, beef or veggies: cook ‘em ’til they’re done!
Bacon dipped in chocolate for salty meets sweet
A heavenly combo you just can’t beat!
If you want to know my favorite that I’d pick every time…
It’s bacon wrapped in bacon and I pair mine with wine.
And guess what? I won! I won free bacon, I mean pork, for a year! I never win anything, especially stuff with essays!
And free bacon, I mean pork, is pretty much the second best thing to money. Crunchy, greasy, piggy money…
I’m as happy as a pig in…well, you know.
I’ll be sharing some of the new porky recipes I try, but you’ll need to go out and by your own bacon, I mean pork, cause I don’t share.
This is the only turkey bacon you'll catch this Diva eating. Source
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Last year I won a $100 gift certificate for commenting on a blog…Winning…..
Congratulations!! Of course, writing this from Tiny Town Europe, where slabs of pork fat sit in my mother-in-law’s fridge pretending to be a reasonable alternative to butter, I’m not sure how I’d feel about that win…
Congrats! I am a huge bacon lover!!!!!! I am always looking for good bacon recipes!
I have once won a trip to Alaska back in 2003 but became pregnant before our trip and could not fly so the company was nice enought to postpone the trip for a year. Then the next year came and I was pregnant with my 2nd child so the company would not help us so we never went and still had to pay taxes on it.
Then my husband won an all expense paid 5 day, 4 night trip to Hawaii through his work in 2007 but we never could go becuase no one was willing to babysit our kids so we missed that trip too.
UGH!
Congrats on your big, beautiful win!!
Hey, whether it’s winning pork for a year or getting ‘porked’ for a year (tee hee!)…you are always a winner in my book!!
I had never won anything until earlier this year at my job we had a random drawing for round trip tickets to Grand Cayman…..and i won! Needless to say i am stoked me and my husband will be enjoying 7 days in Grand Cayman kid free in December!:)
I grew up on a beef and hog farm in Wisconsin, so I love – LOVE that you’re promoting pork. I never won anything grand like pork for a year, but I did win Grand Champion Barrow at our little county fair. (For those of you wondering what a barrow is – it’s the type of pig you eat, a male that’s been castrated). YUM!
Can I just say that I heart you so much! So many times I have thought to myself “so I’m not the only one!” and now the love of bacon, I mean pork! Love it!!!
I don’t know what’s more exciting: bacon or interviewing Richard Blais. I’m going to have to go with Bacon, I think its something my husband would approve of more.
[...] always liked the saying, “Go big or go home.” Coming off my high from winning the Years Supply of Bacon Pork, I entered the It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia & Coors Light Green Man photo contest. [...]
Good luck with the green contest! I started entering contests this year becase with four small boys (7,5,5 and 2) I need an activity that requires low attention span and that I can dip in and out of quickly. No that I enter tons of stuff, it’s just that I enter now when I see them. I won a year supply of milk through a local radio station and grocery chain! That’s 9 gallons a month (O.K. So really about 2 weeks of milk a month for us). That’s pretty big potatoes for us! AND THEN… I enter a pic of my 1.5 year old grinning right in front of my sofa that he just colored all over into the facebook Excedrin What’s Your Headache contest and I won $50k!!! And I am getting a new sofa. Yay! So I can appreciate your enthusiasm over your pork win. That’s pretty awesome. I looooove bacon. I’ll trade ya a gallon of milk for some bacon…
Congrats! I have won a few things and it is always ends up being something I can not use or already have. Like last month I won $300 in animal feed. I am allergic to animals and know no one who wanted it. I decided to pay it forward and next week I am dropping off $300 in dog food to a local no kill shelter. I also once won a free trip to New Orleans & I live outside of New Orleans, still had fun with it. I always make the best of it.
My favorite clothing store of all time, Coldwater Creek, had a new store opening near me so off I went. They had a box where you deposited a slip of paper with your contact information and they took these damn things for three days. When they called me, I’m sure I made the poor woman deaf with my screaming. I had won second prize: a $250 gift certificate for the store. First prize was a leetle pair of diamond earrings (I like first prize better.) That was in 2002, I had never won anything before and I haven’t won a single thing since, but every day I’m alive is a gift. XXOO
I meant second prize. Duh! Still have the coat too.