Kuyambira m'zaka za zana la 12, kubweretsa kunyumba nyama yankhumba imatamanda kwambiri
Nyama yamakono ya America ya nkhumba yatsogolera maulendo ambirimbiri a intaneti pazaka mazana awiri ndi makumi asanu ndi awiri: "Inu munandipatsa ine ku bacon." "Ngati mumakonda nyama yankhumba kapena mukulakwitsa." "Khala bata ndi kuika nyama yankhumba." Koma chilakolako cha nkhumba yophika chimabwereranso.
Bacon M'nthawi Zamakedzana ndi Zakale
Mimba yamchere ya nkhumba inkaonekera podyera zaka zikwi zapitazo ku China. Nkhumba kuchiritsa njira zinkafalikira mu Ufumu wa Roma, ndipo alimi a Anglo-Saxon ankaphika ndi nyama yankhumba mafuta.
Mpaka kufika m'zaka za zana la 16, Middle English mawu akuti nyama yankhumba kapena nyama ya nkhumba imatchulidwa kwa nkhumba zonse. Liwu la nyama yankhumba limachokera ku zilankhulo zosiyanasiyana za Chijeremani ndi Chifalansa, kuphatikizapo chikho cha French, bakkon achi German ndi Old Teutonic backe, zonsezi zimayang'ana kumbuyo. Koma kudula kumene kumagwiritsidwa ntchito popanga nyama yankhumba kumachokera kumbali, kapena mimba, ya nkhumba. Masiku ano ku England, mbali ya bacon imatchedwa gammon ndipo chidutswa cha bacon chimadziwika ngati rasher.
M'zaka za zana la 12, tchalitchi cha ku England chaku tauni ya Dunmow chinalonjeza mbali ina ya nyama yankhumba kwa mwamuna aliyense wokwatirana amene angalumbire pamaso pa mpingo ndi Mulungu kuti sadakangana ndi mkazi wake kwa chaka ndi tsiku. Mwamuna yemwe akanakhoza "kubweretsa kunyumba nyama yankhumba" ankayamikira kwambiri anthu ammudzi chifukwa cha kuleza mtima kwake.
Bacon ku New World
Mfumukazi Isabella inatumiza nkhumba zisanu ndi zitatu ku Cuba ndi Christopher Columbus, koma chivomerezo cha National Pork Board ndi Hernando de Soto monga "bambo wa American Pork Industry." Anabweretsa nkhumba 13 kumphepete mwa New World mu 1539; mkati mwa zaka zitatu ng'ombe yake idakula kufika 700.
Amwenye Achimereka akuti adakondana ndi zokoma ndipo amavomereza nkhumba ndi zakudya za nkhumba monga nsembe zachiyanjano. Pofika m'chaka cha 1653, chiwerengero cha nkhumba chochulukirapo, chongoyendayenda komanso chosasunthika chinawopseza kwambiri kumanga nyumba za ku Dutch ku Manhattan Island pofuna kuti anthu a ku Britain ndi Achimereka azichoka ku New Amsterdam.
Kenaka malowa anadzadziwika kuti Wall Street. Nkhumba zinapitiliza kuthamanga ku New York City mpaka m'zaka za m'ma 1900.
Bacon pa Zamakono Zamakono
Mu nthawi yodziwa zaumoyo , mungathe kuyembekezera kupeza nyama yankhumba pansi pa mndandanda wa zakudya zomwe mumazikonda. Komabe, monga aliyense amene amadwala nyama zamatumbo angakuuzeni, nyama yankhumba imatha kulimbitsa msika wa nkhumba. Ambiri amadya 70 peresenti ya bacon yawo ndi kadzutsa. Koma nyama yamchere, yamchere komanso nyenyezi monga chomera cha sandwich ndi zokondedwa za ophika pa malo abwino odyera, kotero kuti kufooka kwa nyama yankhumba nthawi zina kwachititsa mitengo kukula. Komabe, nyama yankhumba imakhala yopindulitsa pamene ikuwonjezera kuwonjezera kukoma. Bacon aficionados amasangalala ndi nyama zochiritsidwa m'zovala zapamwamba monga chowders ndi concoctions kuchokera bacon ayisikilimu ku chokoleti chophimba chophimba kuti nyama yankhumba kupanikizana. Ndi mitundu yochepa ya sodium ndi yowonda yomwe ilipo, ngakhale dieter ikhoza kudya mopitirira malire.