That's not even counting BaconFest in Old Fourth Ward or how it's become a signature breakfast food in this city.
This is the problem, though. We’re eating so much bacon that the pork stores are running out. The WSJ noted that retailers’ stocks of pork bellies is at a 20-year low. The price is so high they’d rather sell the pork bellies (turned bacon) in stock than buy more at the record-high prices.
But, this doesn’t mean we’re facing a porkopalypse. It just means you might have to pay more for your bacon burger in the future.
That news was not comforting to social media, though, which saw the headline and immediately did two things: 1) Celebrated how amazing bacon is:
And 2) panicked.
One analyst told the WSJ high pork belly prices made restaurants slice bacon more thinly or promote other red-meat alternatives, like sausage. Hopefully this horrifying dystopia of flimsy bacon will not come to pass.
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