Happy National Bacon Day! Bacon lovers, rejoice! Each year On December 30, bacon lovers celebrate one of nature’s favored gifts.
"Everything is better with bacon!" Someone said that once...perhaps someone named Chris P. Bacon. And the research by National Day Calendar® shows very little to dispute this assertion.
In the United States and Canada, bacon is made from the pork belly. Elsewhere in the world, the side and back cuts of pork are used.
The meat is cured in either a salt brine or in a salt pack. It is then either dried, boiled, or smoked.
Bacon is a very popular food in America. You can find many items also flavored or scented with bacon, including popcorn, soap, candles, air fresheners, and much more.
While these uses are options, National Day Calendar® suggests cooking with bacon. It will surely "cure" you of your meaty hankerings.
It’s not just for breakfast anymore, either. Bacon improves everything from beverages to dessert. Some cocktails such as the Bloody Mary and Caesar add bacon to the olives, pickles, and other assorted ingredients.
Bacon improves the flavor of many appetizers, sandwiches, and soups. Incorporate bacon into salads as a topping or mix it into the dressing.
When it comes to dessert, bacon pairs well with maple frosting or maple ice cream. Thanks to the salty, smoky flavor of bacon, it compliments sweet quite well. The possibilities are endless!
HOW TO OBSERVE
According to the founders of National Bacon Day, we are encouraged to eat a variety of bacon while watching Kevin Bacon films ('Diner', for example), or movies with bacon in the title.
Since National Bacon Day was created before the Canadian documentary television series How It’s Made (Comment c'est fait in Quebec) debuted on the Discovery Channel in January 2001, it’s safe to say, we can eat our bacon and watch those as well.
Giving and receiving gifts of bacon is also recommended.
Other suggested traditions such as bacon toasts and kissing under pork fat mistletoe are mentioned as well.
Use #BaconDay to post on social media.
HISTORY
In 1997, Danya “D” Goodman and Meff “Human Cannonball” Leonard founded National Bacon Day in 1997 as the one great day to bond everyone together.
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