Emoji dictionary
🥓 Bacon emoji
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The Bacon emoji 🥓 depicts a strip or two strips of bacon. It is commonly used to represent bacon, breakfast, and even actor Kevin Bacon.
On the Saturday before Labor Day (September 4 in 2021) and on December 30, the Bacon emoji 🥓 is used with the hashtags #InternationalBaconDay and #BaconDay to commemorate International Bacon Day and National Bacon Day respectively.
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Where does 🥓 Bacon emoji come from?
The Bacon emoji 🥓 was approved under Unicode 9.0 in 2016. On most major platforms, the emoji depicts brown, crispy bacon. Most platforms depict two strips of bacon but the Google, Twitter, and Facebook versions depict a single strip. The Microsoft and Twitter versions have the bacon descending to the right while all other platforms have the bacon facing the opposite direction.
Bacon (and similar cuts of pork) is an incredibly popular food around the world among pork-eating cultures. It is often eaten during breakfast in the United States as well as the United Kingdom and Ireland (both where it’s referred to as rashers) and other countries. For this reason, the Bacon emoji 🥓 is often used alongside other breakfast foods emoji such as the Cooking emoji 🍳, the Pancakes emoji 🥞 , or the Hot Beverage emoji ☕.
The Bacon emoji 🥓 is also often used to jokingly refer to actor Kevin Bacon and the popular “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” party game named after him.
Examples of 🥓 Bacon emoji
Who uses 🥓 Bacon emoji?
The Bacon emoji 🥓 is used to refer to bacon or breakfast.
I mean let’s be honest… Who doesn’t love bacon. 🥓 👍🏼👍🏼
— Steve Letarte (@SteveLetarte) October 14, 2018
Bacon & toast for breakfast never goes wrong 🥓🍞
— Rigginator 🦝 (@t_ravin_) February 21, 2021
I don’t care what time I wake up, the first thing I’m going to eat will be breakfast food. 🥞🍳🥓
— Freddy K. (@CallMeFreddyK) February 21, 2021
The Bacon emoji 🥓 is also used to refer to actor Kevin Bacon.
How many bacons could Kevin Bacon bacon if Kevin Bacon could Kevin bacons?
Answer: Bacon. 🥓
— Kimba Rose Williams (@Ms_Kimba_Rose) March 13, 2017
The only thing between us is 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon 🥓
— Lil Mayonnaise Head (@kingofpancakes) July 29, 2019
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