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 ltdmug design reads i put bacon on my baconour ceramic mugs are all white barring the printed design and are a stan