Bacon may be eaten smoked boiled fried baked or grilled or used as a minor ingredient to flavour dishes bacon is also used for barding and larding roasts especially game including venison and pheasant the word is derived from the old high german bacho meaning buttock ham or side of bacon and cognate with the old french bacon artwork copyright push merchandising ltdkids t shirt design reads i put bacon on my baconwe lovingly print all of our kids t shirts onto 100 cotton