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I know for a fact that Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and Portland, Oregon, are obsessed with bacon.  Since there are some social media hipster crossovers who read this blog, I offer this PSA and warning: tell you friends that Bacon Prices Expected To Surge This Summer, so sayeth The Consumerist via CNBC, The Crisis We Should Be Panicking About: Bacon Prices:

Your bacon budget may go bust this summer if analysts’ predictions come true. One indicator is pork belly prices, which have surged to $130 per 100 pounds and could top $150, which it reached last August. A factor contributing to bacon inflation is rising corn prices, which have caused hog farmers to pare their herds, making bacon cost $4.77 a pound in May.

CNBC cites an analyst, quoted by Reuters, who says bacon could rise to $6 a pound in the next few months.

The folks around the office have been gushing about Starbucks’ breakfast sandwiches. I finally tried the $2.99 ham, egg, and cheese “Egg McMuffin” myself and here I am gushing* right along with them. I really hate Starbucks’ lunch menu. It is offensive to charge over a fiver for a cold prepackaged sandwich. Everything changed last month. No, lunch still sucks at Starbucks, but they introduced breakfast sandwiches. No joke.