Bacon (disambiguation)

Bacon is primarily known as type of food, but has several other meanings as well:

Food-related

• Bacon, a cured pork meat
  • Bacon Explosion, a barbecue dish of bacon wrapped around spiced sausage and bacon bits.
  • Bacon vodka, a vodka infused with bacon flavour
  • The Bacon Tuxedo, a tuxedo made of Bacon
  • International Bacon Day or Bacon Day, an unofficial observance on the Saturday before US Labor Day
  • List of bacon dishes - various dishes with Bacon as a major ingredient, though not necessarily in the name
• Turkey bacon, a Turkey based alternative to Bacon

Education

• Bacon Academy (1803 - ), a high school in Colchester, Connecticut
• Bacon's College (1703 - ), a secondary school and sixth form college in Rotherhithe, London
• Allyn & Bacon (1868 -), a US education textbook publisher
• Francis Bacon School a school in St Albans, England

Entertainment

• Bacon (card game), a simplified version of Euchre
• Bacon Grabbers, a 1929 silent comedy short film starring Laurel and Hardy
• Biffa Bacon, a cartoon character in the British comic magazine Viz
• Canadian Bacon, a 1995 comedy film by Michael Moore
• Snake 'n' Bacon, an American comic book and cartoon duo

Places

• Bacon County, a county in the U.S. state of Georgia.
• Bacon, Côte d'Ivoire, a town and commune in Côte d'Ivoire
• Bacon Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador, a settlement in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador
• Bacon Creek (Kentucky), a river in Kentucky near Mammoth Cave
• Bacon End, a village in Essex, England
• Bacon Hill, Virginia, an unincorporated community in Northampton County, Virginia
• Bacon Hills, a mountain range in Kern County, California
• Bacon, Indiana, a small town south of Paoli, Indiana
• Bacon Island (California), an island in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta of California
• Bacon Level, Alabama, a small community near Roanoke, Alabama
• Bacon Peak a mountain in the cascade range of Washington USA
  • Bacon Peak Falls, a 375-foot waterfall in the U.S. state of Washington.
    • Bacon Creek, a creek in the same system in North Cascades National Park
    • Bacon Lake, a lake in the same system in North Cascades National Park
• Bacons, Delaware, an unincorporated community in Sussex County, Delaware
• Bacon Lake (British Columbia) - a lake in British Columbia, Canada
• Bacon River - a river in Nunavut, Canada

Other

• Bacon Bowl, an annual charity football game between the Seattle and Tacoma Police Departments
• Bacon (surname) There are many notable people with the surname Bacon, ones who also have articles for other things named after them include:
  • Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Author and philosopher.
    • Bacon's cipher, a method of steganography invented by Sir Francis Bacon
    • Baconian method the investigative method developed by Sir Francis Bacon.
    • 2940 Bacon, Asteroid named after Sir Francis Bacon.
  • Kevin Bacon (b. 1958), American film actor
    • Bacon number, a figure applied to actors and actresses to show their acting links to actor & 21st Century American dramatist Kevin Bacon
  • Nathaniel Bacon (colonist) (c. 1640s – 1676)
    • Bacon's Rebellion, an uprising that took place in Jamestown, Virginia in 1676, named after Nathaniel Bacon.
      • Bacon's Castle, (built 1665), an old house in Surry County, Virginia. Named for its role in Bacon's rebellion
  • Robert Low Bacon (1884 – 1938), American banker, soldier and politician
    • Davis-Bacon Act (1931), a US law re the payment of prevailing wages on public works - named after R L Bacon
  • Roger Bacon (1214–1294) - English philosopher and Franciscan. His book Opus Majus contains treatments of mathematics,optics, alchemy and gunpowder.
    • Baco (crater), a lunar impact crater on the near side of the Moon, named after Roger Bacon
• Bacon's was a chain of department stores based in Louisville, Kentucky.
• Elizabeth Bacon Custer (1842 - 1933), was the wife of General George Armstrong Custer
• Estonian Bacon (Eesti peekon), a pig breed from Estonia
• Perkins Bacon (1829 - 1935), a British printing company known for bank notes and postage stamps
• Shook, Hardy & Bacon, a US law firm based in Kansas City, Missouri
• USS William Bacon (1863), a US warship
• Wilford Bacon Hoggatt (1865 – 1938) was an American Republican politician
• Bacon (Livewire user), one of many regular users on the teen forum Livewire

See also

• BACN - organisations with the acronym BACN
• Beckham