Photo courtesy of the National Pork Board, Des Moines, Iowa.

Today is National Bacon Day.

Neal Hull, director of channel marketing at the National Pork Board, says bacon is an iconic food item that consumers continue to buy.

“In the last 52 weeks ending in November, consumers have purchased 1.1 billion pounds of bacon and spent a little over 6 billion dollars,” he says.

He tells Brownfield bacon is tasty and indulgent and can serve as a center plate item or an ingredient in a recipe.

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