An 1879 recipe for cutting and curing bacon

1909 recipe for cooking bacon and eggs. I can confirm, this is the correct way to do it.

1914 Southern Star bacon advertisement from Louisville,Kentucky.

1918 Morrell and Co advertisement from Bismarck,North Dakota. While there was no official rationing during the war, people were encouraged to cut back on mutton, beef, and pork. A term we still use today, “Meatless Monday”, was coined during that time.

Muncie,Indiana 1925. Interesting targeted demographic. During this time period, women tended to be four or five years younger than their husbands. Was this doubly aimed at men in their mid-twenties to early thirties, who were developing a bit of nostalgia for their youth and their younger wives who wanted a solution to the request for “Bacon like we used to have in the Army”?

El Paso,Texas 1932.Better bring Sally Ann her bacon recipes.Be a shame if something happened to that nice, new kitchen. Yeah,Opal, I’m looking at you.

Gas-X wasn’t FDA approved until the 1950s, which was unfortunate for any household that used this menu plan.

Portland,Oregon 1958. With war rationing becoming a distant memories, companies develop violently American meals like battered, deep-fried bacon and cheese sandwiches.

Tampa Tribune, 1963 ad for Swift products. “Bacon Snitchers” sounds like an old person trying not to swear around children.

Latrobe, Pennsylvania. By 1975, we were boiling Canadian bacon in ginger-ale, serving it with spinach and calling it diet food. Disco was the punishment for this sin.

Tustin, California 1985. During the 1980s and 1990s, the aerobics and low-fat craze made bacon a condiment you guiltily added to microwaved soups or potatoes.

Portland,Oregon 2008. The dieting ended with the great “Bacon Craze” of the 2000s, where we collectively went insane and consumed all the bacon that we had skipped over the previously thirty years.