How many strips of bacon

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How many strips of bacon
can you get from one 400 pound pig?
By Quinn, Justin, Alliah, and their mentor, Nick.
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The area of the pig made into bacon

• Between the red lines is represented the U.S.
  definition of bacon.

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Heres the math

• Approximately ¼ of the pig is made into bacon.

• The mass of this ¼ is about 100 pounds.

• One pound of meat produces 20 strips of bacon.

• 20 strips times 100 pounds of meat equals 2000
  strips of bacon, or

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100 packages of bacon!
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BACON TRIVIA
Q1) What is a side of unsliced bacon called?
A1) A flitch.
Q2) What do you call an individual slice of
bacon? (Hint not strip)
A2) A rasher.
Q3) What is the skin left on the bacon called?
A3) Bacon rind.