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When it comes to bringing home the bacon, literally, that is, Americans are near-professionals. Last year Americans ate more than $2 billion worth of bacon.
Lisa Haas, a "baconographer," told "Good Morning America" the pig product's popularity should not come as a surprise.
"It's inexpensive, it tastes great and you can put it in anything," she said. "People just love it."
But the fact that someone would proudly identify themselves as a baconographer is more telling of the food's current popularity than most anything Haas could say.
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As a 2008 report from Salon.com found, popular cookbooks are dedicated just to bacon. People have made clothes dedicated to the fried delight. There's even bacon toilet paper.
Matt Timms is one bacon-lover well aware of the trend. He is the founder of a Brooklyn-based competition called Bacon Takedown in which contestants enter their favorite homemade bacon recipes.
"I just wanted people to enjoy food, to get together and to fight about it," Timms said.
Some of the entries are odd, to say the least. He has seen bacon ice cream, a bacon cake and bacon tamalies.
"Good Morning America" asked its viewers to send in their own homemade bacon concotions. Check them out on the next page, then head here for some more of our delicious recipes.
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