You've Been Buying The Wrong Bacon This Whole Time

Bacon's moment as a culinary fad — where it became an ice cream flavor, the filling of a sandwich where the chicken was the bread, and even a type of lubricant — has waned a bit in the past few years. And that's probably a good thing. Trend-followers took bacon past the point of its intended use, and why we loved it in the first place sort of got lost in the craze.