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The Bacon Boom Was Not an Accident
Bacon almost died during the fat-phobic 1980s. Its rise to America's favorite food was a triumph of marketing, innovation, and (let's be honest) amazing flavor
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I've stopped buying it because the fatty ends,the best bits are now sawed off the bacon and I'm getting 1/4 less than I used to get.
Amazing that a product that nobody wanted became a success.
There is just something about bacon that cannot be emulated by anything else out there. It never died, it went underground, and then reemerged victorious once people realized what glory they were missing.