bacon

bacon
bacon early 14c., "meat from the back and sides of a pig" (originally either fresh or cured, but especially cured), from O.Fr. bacon, from P.Gmc. *bakkon "back meat" (Cf. O.H.G. bahho, O.Du. baken "bacon"). Slang phrase bring home the bacon first recorded 1908; bacon formerly being the staple meat of the working class.

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