Your preconceived doubt is justified...

Let me first say that I absolutely LOVE the idea of Baconalia. Celebrating bacon and putting it front and center can never be a bad thing. The only thing that could be better than that would be making really good bacon the center of attention.

But let's be serious, if you are at Denny's chances are the bar's just closed, you are on your way home from a concert, or you got nowhere else to eat on a Sunday morning and love a good line. You are not out looking to get a bacon fix, unless you are like one of us, always looking for a bacon fix. Denny's bacon is what it is, it's better than the see-thru bacon they have at Carl's Jr but it's not far from the good stuff.

Bacon Sampler: "Three" kinds of bacon; the regular bacon, see above. Pepper bacon; the best of the three but it just the regular bacon with pepper. If you don't like peppered bacon this isn't the one to change your mind. That's it for the bacon, the third selection is turkey "bacon".....
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Bacon, smoked pork belly, ya know the stuff this blog is about??? Quick quiz, how many pork bellies in a turkey? BZZZZZZZ zero.
The Lords of Bacon does not condone calling turkey meat or soy products bacon. (JD Foods gets a pass, they don't try to sell their stuff as being bacon, just bacon flavored.)

Bacon Meatloaf: I had my doubts about this, my friend Lisa has perfected the bacon meatloaf years ago, god it's good too, and if they had bought her recipe I would have heard about it. So it's this meat "puck" with some sauce and bacon crumbles. Bacon has a lot of fat in it, mmm pork fat, that should lead to some moist meatloaf right? Well this was wasn't moist, and didn't really taste like bacon. I like meatloaf even without bacon, but I wouldn't order this one again.

Bacon Sundae: This is suprisingy simple, maple syrup, bacon, vanilla ice cream, repeat until glass is full. I was expecting something a bit more exotic like maple bacon ice cream or something, (Moo Creamery rocks!) but it was just 3 items they always have. With that I hope they will keep this one around. The sundae was really good, creamy, mapley, and the salty crunchy bacon. It works well together, don't say eww without trying it first. Definitely go and try the sundae it's yummy.