# Seriously, how much bacon do you guys eat? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 1, 2014, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-how-much-bacon-do-you-guys-eat/697113 "2014-09-01T05:18:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-how-much-bacon-do-you-guys-eat/697113/41 "2014-09-01T17:49:43Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Same here. We have a turkey farm nearby that makes incredible thick cut peppered turkey bacon. Very little fat, just enough for cooking, and tastes like bacon. Costs a little more than high end regular bacon. I’ll bet it’s been ten years or more since I’ve had pig bacon, but we have turkey bacon every weekend. > > ETA: is it safe to assume that the “never” votes are religious dietary things? I pay about $2.25 for a 12 ounce package of Jennie-O turkey bacon. Way cheaper than the real bacon in the same store. I’ll buy about 4 packages a month. That works out to about $3.34 a pound. ---
**Author:** ![Octarine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/22d042/32.png) [@Octarine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Octarine)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-how-much-bacon-do-you-guys-eat/697113/42 "2014-09-01T17:53:20Z")
A couple times a year. I like bacon, but to be honest my breakfast meat is usually sausages or pudding. It can be too salty and overpower the meal. _hangs head in shame_ ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-how-much-bacon-do-you-guys-eat/697113/43 "2014-09-01T18:10:06Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > You rare bacon eaters must eat a lot of bacon when you do get it, or share with a lot of people. Or I guess get it only at fast food places. > > I went with 1-3 times a week. I tend to get it on my McDonalds burgers, and will use it as my protein at breakfast sometimes. The price/ease of cooking ratio is just really nice. Bacon is very often on sale (along with all the other meat we ever buy.) It was $2 a pack this last time. (You had to get two, and it counted as part of a 5 for $20 deal.) Or you know, don’t care a lot for it. I used to eat bacon much more, when I was a kid. Once I started to buy my own food, I decided that bacon had no place in my food budget. It’s not something I really cared about, and would prefer to splurge on some ice cream (also a rare buy) or some other meat cut than in bacon. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-how-much-bacon-do-you-guys-eat/697113/44 "2014-09-01T18:39:29Z")
2-3 times a month in a club sandwich, or crumbles in a salad. Very rarely for breakfast with eggs. ---
**Author:** ![vontsira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/51bf81/32.png) [@vontsira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vontsira)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-how-much-bacon-do-you-guys-eat/697113/45 "2014-09-01T22:06:25Z")
I like bacon: am in the eating it one-to-three-times-a-week bracket; but not to the almost-fetishism point that some folk seem to display. Feel that if I were sentenced never to eat bacon again – though still allowed other meat products – I could live with that, without great trouble. That said: picture is got, that bacon is for many, pretty well uniquely delicious and tempting. My niece, in her early teens, had an idealistic impulse to go vegetarian, and kept it up for some months – but she was “undone” in that, by very greatly missing bacon; and, acknowledging same, went back to omnivore status and practice. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-how-much-bacon-do-you-guys-eat/697113/46 "2014-09-01T22:24:32Z")
I voted “a couple times of year”, assuming “couple” doesn’t really just mean “two”, but “a few”. Not that I don’t love the stuff, but I don’t make it at home, and my usual go-to breakfast place has these killer spicy Italian sausages, and I usually have them with my eggs. Those, I have maybe twice a month. Of course, there might be a false dichotomy in there somewhere, but that’s my story. ---
**Author:** ![Apocalypso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Apocalypso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apocalypso)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-how-much-bacon-do-you-guys-eat/697113/47 "2014-09-01T22:30:20Z")
I don’t hate bacon, but I am not fond of it either. The only time I eat it is if it comes on a sandwich and there isn’t a non-bacon sandwich listed on the menu. I used to pick the bacon off and throw it away, but now I’ll usually just eat it. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-how-much-bacon-do-you-guys-eat/697113/48 "2014-09-01T22:33:30Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > Actually somewhere between a couple of times a month and a couple of times a year; maybe a couple of times every two or three months. > > Mind you, this is because I live in Britain now. I would not be bothering at all if it were the American-style nearly-all-fat bacon. This is a good point. There’s bacon, and then there’s bacon. The stuff I’ve had in England is vastly superior tp anything I’ve had in the US. Our bacon actually smells a lot better (cooking) than it tastes. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-how-much-bacon-do-you-guys-eat/697113/49 "2014-09-01T22:59:54Z")
I found a place here that makes their own back bacon (or “bacon”, as the British call it), and slices it to order. Good stuff, very lean. The American style bacon that we usually get is made locally and is far leaner than anything you can get in a package. I buy it by the 5 pound bag and divide/freeze it. It lasts about five weeks at our slice a day per person rate of consumption. Still, that’s getting up to 25 pounds/year each. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-how-much-bacon-do-you-guys-eat/697113/50 "2014-09-01T23:38:00Z")
I rarely eat bacon. I really do like it a lot, but I don’t LOVE it the way a lot of people claim to, and I know it’s not great for me. I’ll get it every now and then at a restaurant. Even more rarely we’ll buy it and make it at home. I first had bacon in Boy Scouts, and my preferred method of prepared bacon is in the “very chewy” to carbonized state, since that’s the standard of most boy scout cooking. Usually it’s in the middle ground of not-burnt-but-crispy. If I can fold my bacon in half with no effort, I consider it not sufficiently cooked. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-how-much-bacon-do-you-guys-eat/697113/51 "2014-09-01T23:44:58Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > This is a good point. There’s bacon, and then there’s bacon. The stuff I’ve had in England is vastly superior tp anything I’ve had in the US. Our bacon actually smells a lot better (cooking) than it tastes. Oddly enough, as someone who is not bacon gung-ho, that’s _exactly_ what I love about bacon, and use it primarily for: its fat. If they just sold tubs of bacon fat, I would buy that. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-how-much-bacon-do-you-guys-eat/697113/52 "2014-09-01T23:52:10Z")
I hate the taste and mouth-feel of bacon, so never. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-how-much-bacon-do-you-guys-eat/697113/53 "2014-09-02T00:18:17Z")
I buy a pack once a month. I would buy much, much more if I could afford it. I try to only use it for seasoning instead of eating it whole slice at a time. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2014, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-how-much-bacon-do-you-guys-eat/697113/54 "2014-09-02T10:12:22Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > The stuff I’ve had in England is vastly superior tp anything I’ve had in the US. Yes, I’m British. This may explain my bacon-eating. 😃 It sounds like I better stay off American bacon should I visit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seriously-how-much-bacon-do-you-guys-eat/697113.md?page=2)