bacon
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We had potato soup and the house salad at Hops (I had to pick out little bits of bacon from the soup, but it was really good!).
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- noun The salted and smoked meat from the back and sides of a pig.
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- At least the bacon was already prepared, she thought, bending and retrieving another skillet from the cabinet. — Cinderella At The Ball
- And a ham and ten pounds of bacon from the first hog he killed in November. — Cold Mountain
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We had potato soup and the house salad at Hops (I had to pick out little bits of bacon from the soup, but it was really good!).
— carinosa34 Diary Entry -
Her dinner this evening was oatmeal soaked in bacon grease.
— grouse Diary Entry -
In other news, a lot of bacon is happening here on April 4, including but not limited to this and this.
— senorcoconut Diary Entry
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- Middle English, from Old French, of Germanic origin.
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/ (bāˈkən)/
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