🥓 bacon Emoji — Meaning, Copy & Paste

What Does the bacon Emoji 🥓 Mean?

Two or three wavy strips of cooked bacon with the unmistakable striped red-and-white meat-and-fat pattern, browning at the crispy edges — the bacon emoji is the breakfast-meat MVP of the keyboard. Texters use it constantly for breakfast and brunch content, weekend-morning posts, BLT sandwich captions, and bacon-everything food trends. The 2010s-era bacon-mania (bacon-flavored everything, bacon-on-the-doughnut content, bacon-themed merchandise) made it one of the most-requested food emoji additions when it finally launched.

Carbonara, candied bacon, and bacon-wrapped-everything content all adopt it. Beyond literal food, "bringing home the bacon" idiom for earning money pulls it in for hustle content. Kevin Bacon and Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon meme references occasionally use it.

Vegetarians and vegans use it ironically in posts about turkey bacon or tempeh bacon alternatives. Breakfast-pizza, bacon-on-burger, and bacon-jam content all leverage it. Added to Unicode 9.0 in 2016 alongside the avocado and croissant in a major food-emoji expansion, bacon has been carrying breakfast posts ever since.