Facts about Bacon

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Facts about Bacon
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The Origins of Bacon

• The practise of salting pork and other meats
  dates from the early periods of civilisation
• Salted pork was enjoyed by the Greeks and Romans
• The Saxons kept large herds of pigs in Englands
  extensive woodlands
• There are references to bacon in Chaucers
  Canterbury Tales and the works of Shakespeare
• 1560 earliest reference to bacon served for
  breakfast (by a London Cheesemonger)

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Bacon Folklore

• Bringing home the bacon?
• From the 12th century, the priory of Little
  Dunmow in Essex awarded a Dunmow Flitch to any
  couple who could swear and prove to a jury that
  they spent 12 months and a day without having a
  household brawl or wishing themselves unmarried
• only 8 flitches were awarded between 1244 and
  1772
• Chewing the fat?
• In the 16th Century, European peasants could
  only sometimes afford pork which made them feel
  quite special. When visitors arrived, they would
  hang up their bacon to show off. It was a sign of
  wealth that a man could bring home the bacon.
  They would then cut off a little to share with
  guests and would all sit round and chew the fat

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Danish Bacon in Britain

• Danish Bacon has been a British favourite for
  over 150 years. The first shipment of Danish
  Bacon reached these shores way back in 1847
• Bacon and pork are Denmarks largest and most
  important exports, sold around 140 countries the
  world over
• Launched back in 1972, around 90 of consumers in
  Britain recognise the Danish sizzle
• Around a quarter of all bacon eaten in Britain is
  Danish

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Bacon Today

• Around 90 of British people eat bacon and it is
  the nations most frequently eaten meat
• British shoppers spend over 1 billion on bacon
  every year
• Over a third of bacon is still eaten at
  breakfast, but it is becoming an increasingly
  popular meal ingredient throughout the day
• Surveys have shown that the nations favourite
  sandwich is the BLT
• Bacon is a favourite hangover cure many
  revellers opt for a cooked breakfast or a bacon
  buttie as a way to soothe sore heads after a
  night of indulgence

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Bacon Cures

• Bacon is cured pork. The curing of pork into
  bacon with salt gives it such a distinctive
  taste. Modern curing methods have enabled the
  producers to reduce its salt content
  significantly over the last 30 years

• Wiltshire a traditional cure,
  originating in Wiltshire
• Dry Cure a traditional cure using dry salt
• Mild Cure a traditional cure using around 2.5
  salt
• Sweet Cure a cure in which sugars or syrups
  are added

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Smoked or Unsmoked

• Over two-thirds of bacon is sold as unsmoked or
  sometimes known as green bacon
• Sales of smoked bacon are growing. After curing,
  the bacon is smoked using wood chippings or other
  smoking processes. Smoking gives the product a
  distinctive flavour and a slightly brownish
  appearance

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Bacon Words of Wisdom

• Ive long said that if I were about to be
  executed and were given a choice of my last meal,
  it would be bacon and eggs.
• James Beard
• Life expectancy would grow in leaps and bounds
  if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
• Doug Larson
• I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I
  discovered that it contained no eggs and bacon.
• Dorothy Sayers
• We plan, we toil, we suffer in the hope of
  what? A camel-load of idols eyes? The little
  deeds of Radio City? The empire of Asia? A trip
  to the moon? No, no, no, no
• simply to wake up just in time to smell
  coffee, bacon and eggs.
• J.B. Priestley

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