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Point is it doesn't matter. If you are going to eat bacon, then evaluate the 2 choices we were discussing. Buy a 3 lb package and fry it up or buy the can. You'll get the same amount of eats 9 oz.

To see how much it costs over raw bacon you have to either adjust the costs of the raw bacon to that of the cooked can or vice versa.

A 3 lb package of thick sliced bacon costs between 4-6 dollars, so the price on the canned bacon is competitive with fresh bacon.

That's the only point I was making.

Now as to whether that is the least costly item to buy - decidedly not. A can of beans and rice would give you a whole protein plus fiber and is a lot cheaper, but it would surely be a taste treat to add a slice of crumbled bacon in the mix- totally up to individual taste.

Now, I do love bacon, but don't usually eat it. Between the nitrates and the fat content and family history we don't eat much of it. A nice BLT in the summer with homegrown tomatoes occasionally is about it.

My self I'd really rather have steak. LOL. But in an SHTF situation I'd slurp up the beans and rice with or with out the bacon and count myself lucky.

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it wouldn’t matter if it came from a 500# pig, would it?

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Well, that depends on whether the 500 lb pig rendered out at 9 oz cooked per 3 lb raw slices. After all, some bacon has more fat and shrivels up more than others.

Do you always go out of your way to be snarky?