It’s easy to see an article like this and think that it spells out the first prophecy of the end times. But if you really think about it, you see that the steady and constant market for Pork Bellies means that the goal of Bacon Ubiquity is nearly upon us.
“Now the industry standard is more of a fresh belly, they don’t want a frozen belly. Once the hog is butchered, they take that belly, and they’re gonna slice it right then.”
Requiem For Pork Bellies : Planet Money : NPR.
We owe a lot to the hard work of the forerunners of the Bacon Saves movement: Alfred “porky” Hormel, John Farmer, Jimmy Dean, etc. put in a lot of hard work proselytizing for the purity of the Salty Sacrament.
