If you accept that bacon is an all-American food . . . which you should . . . then by that logic, the states that love it the most also love America the most.
A new study ranked the 50 states on their love of bacon, based on the percentage of the bacon photos on Instagram they posted. And the state that loves bacon the most is . . . Nebraska. Tennessee is 8% above national average. Tennessee is home to bacon master Allan Benton, considered the “king of pork” by some of America’s top chefs.But we didn’t crack the top 10
People in Nebraska post 132% more bacon photos than the national average. The rest of the top 10 bacon loving states are:
West Virginia . . . Iowa . . . Colorado . . . Missouri . . . Connecticut . . . Alabama . . . Ohio . . . Wisconsin . . . and New Hampshire.
The state that’s the most anti-bacon is Hawaii. People there post 48% fewer photos of bacon than the national average. The rest of the 10 bacon hating states are:
Kansas . . . Florida . . . California . . . New York . . . New Mexico . . . Nevada . . . Mississippi . . . Idaho . . . and Washington.
Click image to open interactive version (via Ginny’s)