Bacon is a meat product prepared from a pig and usually cured. It is first cured using large quantities of salt, either in a brine or in a dry packing; the result is fresh bacon (also known as green bacon). Fresh bacon may then be further dried for weeks or months in cold air, or it may be boiled or smoked. Fresh and dried bacon is typically cooked before eating, often by frying. Boiled bacon is ready to eat, as is some smoked bacon, but may be cooked further before eating.
Bacon is prepared from several different cuts of meat. It is usually made from side and back cuts of pork, except in the United States and Canada, where it is most commonly prepared from pork belly (typically referred to as "streaky", "fatty", or "American style" outside of the US and Canada). The side cut has more meat and less fat than the belly. Bacon may be prepared from either of two distinct back cuts: fatback, which is almost pure fat, and pork loin, which is very lean. Bacon-cured pork loin is known as back bacon.
Bacon is a 2014 album by Russian-American rock band Igor & the Red Elvises.
Bacon, sometimes called American Euchre, is a trick-taking card game which resembles a simplified version of Euchre. It differs from Euchre in that it uses a full 52-card Anglo-American deck, has a slightly modified scoring system and trump selection system, uses a normalized card ordering to make it easier to learn, and adds the aspect of permission. It originated in the mid-to-late 1900s and is somewhat popular in the Eastern United States. It is one of the simpler trick-taking games and is a good game for introducing the concept of trumps to inexperienced players.
The object of Bacon is to be the first player to reach a predetermined threshold of points, usually 10 or 15. Players work together with their partner, who sits across from them, to collect more tricks than their opponents. In each hand, the team that wins the majority of the 5 tricks receives 1 point, or 2 if all 5 tricks are won. The score received by a team is doubled if they were not the team to declare trump or if one of the team members won the tricks "alone" (see below).
(Paul) Hey, Harry?
(Joe) Yes, Harry?
(Paul) What's your favorite food?
(Joe) Oh, you know my favorite food is bacon
(Paul) Hey, Harry?
(Joe) Oh yeah, Harry?
(Paul) What's your favorite thing that's cooked by Mrs. Weasley?
(Joe) You know my favorite thing at the Weasley's -
(Paul) Is it bacon?
(Joe) Is bacon!
(Joe) In the morning
On my toast
Coming out of a pale ghost
On my eggs
In my sandwich
Every day
Under my pillow
(Both) Bacon, bacon
Bacon, bacon
Bacon, bacon
Bacon, bacon
(Joe) Thanks Harry, for reminding me about how much I love bacon
(Paul) Well, you know, I was just thinking about how much I love bacon
(Joe) Really?
(Paul) Yep
(Joe) I'm gonna be thinking about that in the future, too
(Both) Bacon, bacon
Bacon, bacon
Bacon, bacon