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17 Mouthwatering Facts About Bacon

by Jennifer

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I thought I knew a lot about bacon, until I read an article on Asylum.com.

Did you know that bacon started in China around 1500 BC?  Yeah, neither did I!  (I’m not exactly sure where and when I thought bacon was “born” but I know I wasn’t thinking it was during the Shang Dynasty.)

Check out their site and original post here.

And by all means, enjoy!

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    View August 23, 2010

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  4. Christin
    View August 23, 2010

    You spelled “Washington D.C.” wrong!!!! :)

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    • Dougreplied:
      View 10 months ago

      I think they spelled it correctly.. maybe just a little Freudian slip.

      Reply
  5. Jennifer Eolin
    View August 23, 2010

    HAHAHA! So they did. :)

    Reply
  6. On The Links | Ted Williams Head
    View August 23, 2010

    [...] Facts About Bacon – BaconToday [...]

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  7. Observant
    View August 23, 2010

    Take a closer look.

    They did not misspell it. They spelled it VERY correctly.

    Reply
  8. Max
    View August 26, 2010

    Only 100 calories for 3 slices of bacon? Sounds like I need to eat more bacon!

    Reply
    • Jewelreplied:
      View January 27, 2011

      With maple syrup to dip your paltry 100 calorie slices in, you increase the nutrition value upwards. What’s not to like?

      Reply
  9. ?:? )
    View August 26, 2010

    Who export most bacon?
    Who import most bacon?
    Which country eats most bacon per citizen?

    Reply
  10. Bill
    View August 26, 2010

    Very interesting info. I can’t believe the troll who only cares about the fact Washington D.C. was spelled wrong. Some people think criticizing others make them sound more intelligent. I think it makes them a jerk.

    Reply
  11. foible
    View August 26, 2010

    Hate to propagate, Bill, but you hopped on the bandwagon. ’tis a universal human character flaw to draw attention to oneself, be it positive or negative, through the use of “trolling,” lambasting, e-punching, criticizing, validating, expounding and so on. Yes, I too, am doing as such. As the adage states; “Ignore it and it will go away.” Anywho, all of these MARVELOUS facts about bacon have left me with an intense craving. ’tis time to nosh. Thanks for the post.

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  12. Uncle B
    View August 26, 2010

    For the Frugal Folks among you! Bacon and its saved fat can extend and flavor a multitude of rather plain but very cheap dishes and was once considered a staple food in America! Add to this fine website the recipes of old where bacon “drippings” were considered culinary gold! Expose the recent past delights of foods flavored with bacon – tell the truth! Let us return to the cheaper more flavorful recipes of America! To Hell with this cholesterol nonsense! If you are starving and need good cheap food, such drivel is of little consequence! Publish the recipes that show bacon and pork fat in general as useful culinary desirables.
    break form the Corporatists propaganda machine and let America eat well and cheaply once again!

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  13. Mel
    View August 27, 2010

    xD fact#18: The average Mel eats about 0.5 lbs of bacon each year. At the MOST.

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  15. gabe
    View August 30, 2010

    gross. Pigs are very smart sentient beings. Its wrong to farm and kill them simply out of eating habit. All mammals should be protected. If you want to eat meat eat something like fish or chicken/turkey..they are not our relatives and have brains that are quite different from mammals. A pigs mind is like a dolphins. If we can be sentimental about dolphins we should be just as sentimental towards pigs.

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  16. TootieLizardTush
    View August 30, 2010

    You suggested we eat fish instead. Should we start with dolphins?

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  17. Quilpole
    View August 31, 2010

    Fact #19: The average Quilpole eats about 0.5lbs of bacon per day, and enjoys every bite :) :)

    If pigs were so smart, they’d find a way to convince us not to eat them!

    Fish? Fish? You mean those mercury-tainted buggers swimming around in our oceans? I don’t think so!

    Well, time for my morning bacon-and-chocolate milk shake ;) ;)

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  18. Dagny
    View September 1, 2010

    @gabe:

    Bah. You’ve obviously never lived near a pig farm (or met people whose fingers have been taken off by those beasties).

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  19. Mike
    View September 1, 2010

    YUMMMMM ME LOVES BACON!!!!

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  20. The Boat
    View September 1, 2010

    @ TootieLizardTush…dolphins are not fish…they are mammals. I eat meat, mammals and all, like your average American. Unlike your average American, I’m a bit learned.

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  21. foible
    View September 2, 2010

    I too, am somewhat of a learned fellow from the United States! I also am thoroughly displeased with anyone that follows the hatch-brained notion that shit should be so damn “protected.” For millions of years on this planet, (before, during and eventually, after humans,) animals have lived and died, and will continue to do so. Species have become extinct. So what, the dawn of man was a harbinger to our unending responsibility to ensure that, for the rest of eternity, no RNA-based organism is to ever die again? Bull shit. Poaching and systematic genocide, yea, that’s bad. Sure, we should endeavor to reduce and replace the “carbon footprint,” (which is more of a curb-stomp,) that we’ve left on this planet. We are omnivores. ALL things on this planet are our food. Just don’t eat other humans, ’cause that shit’ll make you go crazy. If all life is sacred, quit killin’ germs with your antimicrobial soaps. Where’s the bumper stickers that say “I brake for advanced melanoma?” I don’t see anyone lobbying for the protection of HIV. And all you bird-brained vegans out there? Plants have feelings too!

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  23. theman
    View September 17, 2010

    bacon is better than god

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  24. Smrtenuf
    View October 19, 2010

    We should eat fish and chicken because their brains are different than mammals? Pigs are mean, and they are bred to be eaten. Same as cows. And to be honest, if you handed me some dolphin for dinner, I would eat it. Why? Because they are animals, and I am a human at the top of the food chain. That means I get to eat what I want. All of this save the animals! stuff is garbage. Humans are omnivores, and should eat as such.

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  27. MsWorld
    View August 10, 2011

    I don’t understand why there was nothing included on the cancer-causing effects of nitrates used to preserve bacon, and the cholesterol and saturated fat content.

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  28. Cliff
    View February 21, 2012

    Yum! Bacon, one of my must-haves for breakfast. But I am trying to cut it down a bit now since i’m on a diet.

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  29. johnnybravo
    View April 19, 2012

    Bacon ha ha ha yall dont know nothingggg about it, i am the bacon god!!!

    Reply
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