Showing posts with label Pork. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pork. Show all posts

2/11/15

23 Amazing Facts About Bacon


- Roughly 11% of a pigs weight is made up of useable meat for bacon.

- 3 slices of cooked bacon equals approximately 100 calories and properly cooked tastes 105% awesome.

- Statistically 71% of the time bacon and eggs are eaten together as a meal.

- Restaurants and the food service industry use more than 1.7 billion pounds of bacon a year.

- The United States alone consumed an estimated 32 billion slices of bacon last year alone.

- A pigs tail isn't always curly. It can also be kinky, or even straight.

- Eating bacon can cure a hangover.

- 19% of pork that is consumed annually is in bacon form.

- Statistics show that 70% of bacon is consumed at breakfast time.

- Most bacon bits aren't baon at all. They are mostly vegetarian. Always look for the 'Real' bacon bits.