Etyomologically, bacon means meat from the 'back of an animal'. The word appears to come from a prehistoric Germanic base *bak-, which was also the source of English back. Germanic bakkon passed into Frankish bako, which French borrowed as bacon. read more
U.S. bacon sales exceed $4 billion; 62 percent of the restaurants in the U.S. have bacon on their menu, according to a report on bacon trends from the National Pork Board. read more
The phrase “bring home the bacon” comes from the 12th century when a church in Dunmow, England offered a side of bacon to any man who could swear before God and the congregation that he had not fought or quarreled with his wife for a year and a day. read more
The Netherlands, owing to its intensive (and often controversial) farming techniques, is the largest supplier of bacon worldwide. Historically, however, the process of salting or curing slices of pork has been occurring across a number of European countries since as far back as the Saxon period in the first millennium A.D. read more