Bringing home the bacon is easy as prices fall

Chicago

ANDY Wiederhorn wants to sell bacon to vegetarians.

That's the idea, anyway, behind the Hypocrite Burger - a veggie patty topped by two strips of bacon. Mr Wiederhorn, chief executive officer of Beverly Hills, California-based Fatburger Corp, is pushing sales of the sandwich in his 200 fast-food restaurants to take advantage of wholesale prices that dropped about two-thirds from a year ago.

"We want to add bacon to everything we sell," he said. "People like it."

Do they ever. At the risk of sounding like Forrest Gump's shrimp-obsessed buddy Bubba, eateries are offering bacon milkshakes, bacon sauerkraut, bacon kale salad, bacon martini…