Two crisped strips laid side by side, the fat-marbled stripe pattern doing all the identifying work here. It's a breakfast-plate regular and a stand-in for indulgence generally, bacon jokes about diets abandoned, weekends that start with a fry-up, and the universal 'everything's better with bacon' sentiment.
What 🥓 means
A pair of brown bacon strips with a couple of curved lines running along the strips in the existing curvy design. The 🥓 Bacon emoji refers to pork meat which is ready to fry/cook and gobble.
How and when to use it
- If you had bacon and eggs for breakfast after a hellishly long time or just after the previous day and you're either making a social media story out of it or responding to that "What's for breakfast?" text, you can use 🥓 in those contexts.
- Post H1N1, bacon came to be known as a slang word for swine flu, although it's sad to use 🥓 in such a framework, it still fits.
- Bacon is largely known as pork belly meat, but it can be used for other meat such as beef. So, you can use 🥓 in differing meaty contexts as well.
- You can use 🥓 while posting pictures or videos of bacon; either of you making bacon for the first time (or the millionth time), a new recipe you invented, or even a repost of an absolutely mouth-watering bacon video that you came across.
Other Names
- 🥓 Pork Meat
- 🥓 Pancetta
- 🥓 Bacon Strips
- 🥓 Gammon
- 🥓 Sowbelly
- 🥓 Porkbelly
- 🥓 Pork Slab
The lowdown
- Category
- Food & Drink › food-prepared
- Codepoints
U+1F953- Emoji version
- Emoji 3.0
- Shortcodes
:bacon:- Keywords
- bacon, breakfast, food, meat
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🥓 Bacon or 🛣️ Motorway?
Runs with a crowd
🥓 keeps company in food emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.