Bacon Bits

Bacon.

I love it. Always have. Always will.

Today brings a few random bits about that thin, salty, smokey, slightly sweet, unctuous slice of swine belly.

First up, how it's made. It ain't pretty, at least in a commercial factory setting...



Next, an odds and ends infographic about candy meat...


And lastly, an NPR discussion about a bacon of the month club...



There was a very brief time when I ate one strip of bacon almost everyday. Those days are long gone but I still eat it as well as pork belly (the best pork belly I've had was this summer in Sweden). I tried chocolate covered bacon a couple weeks back and although each is magical by itself, married together they form an evil stomach churning combo. I'll take my bacon neat from now on.