On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 09:24:40 -0400, Gary > wrote:

>They held a bacon festival near here last weekend but I didn't go. The
>newspaper had an article about it though. It also added some bacon
>trivia.
>
>- Bacon is one of the lowest priced meats. Prices dropped 25% last
>year according to the USDA.
>
>- Bacon is one of the oldest processed meats in history. The Chinese
>began salting pork bellies as early as 1500BC.
>
>- A 250-pound pig yields about 23 pounds of bacon.
>
>That's all. I TOLD you it was worthless info.

Oh I dunno... now I know that I eat at least a whole pig's worth of
bacon each year