Just in from ATK...a new bacon world order....

(co-winners)

1) Farmland thick sliced - “a good meaty slice” that was “sweet,”
“smoky, porky, and salty.”

1.) Plumrose Premium thick sliced - “pleasantly smoky,” “with very
little fat.”

2.) Wright Naturally hickory smoked - “great smoky flavor with enough
salt and sweet.”

3.) Wellshire Farms Black Forest dry rubbed salt cured - “smoky, sweet,
salty, meaty—the four basic bacon food groups!” Others compared its
sweetness with “barbecued brisket” or “burnt ends,”

4.) Oscar Meyer Naturally hardwood smoked - “deeply porky” and
“meaty”—“a very nice, satisfying slice.”
....

The least favorite was Plumrose Premium sliced - "one taster likened
its taste to that of “lunch meat.” At best, its flavor was
“middle-of-the-road.”

If anyone finds that Wellshire product pipe up, it's not (as so many of
their brands are) one we see in the Southwest.