BLT’s with double bacon.
Obama's next crisis - how will the White House handle increasing bacon prices?
August 2, 2010 Prices for fresh pork bellies, from which bacon is made, are at an all-time high of $1.35 a pound, 53% higher than they were a year ago. Bacon demand tends to peak during the summer, when supermarkets heavily promote the meat product—sliced from the fatty part of a pig’s abdomen—to coincide with a seasonal bump in Americans’ consumption of BLTs: bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwiches.