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bacon

[bay-kuhn] / ˈbeɪ kən /


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Like many on Martha’s Vineyard, a resort island off Cape Cod that’s teeming with ticks this year, I bid a sad farewell to hamburgers, bacon and lamb chops.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

LOS ANGELES—I was eating my second piece of hot honey and cracked black-pepper bacon in American Airlines’ Flagship Lounge when an employee popped by.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

In the late 1890s, John Harvey Kellogg, the director of a Seventh-day Adventist sanitarium in Battle Creek, Mich., wanted a vegetarian breakfast alternative to the bacon and eggs his clients were accustomed to.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

If you do not own a bacon press, use a smaller heavy skillet, a foil-wrapped kitchen brick or simply a spatula and some patience.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026

Ninety percent of Hot Pockets have bacon in them.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan


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