A Who doesn't love bacon!? It's an amazing crispy, salty, chewy cut of pork that mankind has loved for eons.

If you don't know too much about it except for how to shove more of it in your mouth, bacon is cut from the sides, belly, or back of a pig, close to the ribs. The tastiness of this amazing meat comes from all of its fattiness. After the skin is cut away, the meat is then cured, smoked, and sliced. It can be cooked in a pan on your stove, on the BBQ, in the oven, or in the microwave, any method will do.

Here are some new ways that bacon chan change your life that you might not have realized:

• Bacon cheeseburgers are obvious. Meat is best served topped with more meat.
• Scallops wrapped in bacon are ridiculously good.
• Bacon-wrapped tater tots, 'nuff said.
• Roast a bacon-wrapped turkey, if you're adventurous deep-fry the entire thing
• Make your own hot bacon dressing to use on lettuce, cabbage, or even potato salad!
• Entertaining? Wet your guests appetites with the bacon-cheese fundido appetizer.
• One of bacons best friends is chocolate, mix them together in your mouth for good times.
• Maple bacon cupcakes will make your mouth water.
• Dip your corn bread in bacon grease, or any kind of bread for that matter.
• You can buy bacon-flavored cotton candy on the internet, it's awesome.
• If pork-covered pork appeals to you, you may also enjoy the bacon-wrapped deep-fried hot dog.
• Trim your holiday tree with joyful ceramic bacon ornaments.
• Add a new twist to stuffed peppers by wrapping them in bacon.
• Weave and bake bacon into edible placemats.
• Salty bacon will complement the sweet honey dressing in this imitation crab salad.
• Try poached pears stuffed with blue cheese and baked with bacon.
• Or try the same combo of flavors in a pear, blue cheese, bacon pizza.
• Take a look at this bacon-filled quiche. It’ll really make your mouth water.
• See who comes out on top with an action-figure wrestling match between Mr. Bacon and Monsieur Tofu.
• Panzanella (Italian bread salad with, of course, bacon)
• Apple bacon coffeecake
• Roasted potato salad (with, of course, bacon)
• Maple-bacon biscuits from Zoe Nathan, the pastry chef at Rustic Canyon in Santa Monica
• Bacon donuts, bacon cupcakes, or for the less adventiurous, bacon and chive scones

I've said it before and I'll say it again, the Japanese in many way are WAY ahead of everybody else, behold a bacon vending machine!