Now You Can Have Wendy’s Bacon(ator) at Home

Well folks, Wendy’s is really doing it. They are making all of their burger components available at the grocery store so we can finally answer the age-old question, “Where’s the beef?” Answer: It’s all around us. Or rather, the beef and more recently the pork are all around us, because, as of earlier this month, you could get Wendy’s burgers in grocery stores and between those burgers and this week’s development of Wendy’s Double Smoked Bacon hitting stores, let’s just say the backyard Baconators ’bouta be bangin’ this summer.  

Where can we find this Wendy’s bacon? Does it have corners like the burgers do? Or is it round like normal bacon?

Rest assured my bacon-loving besties, this bacon is bacon-shaped. That is to say, it has corners, four of them, and comes all stacked up like an accordion in some tight plastic packaging. I’m tellin’ ya, this stuff looks like bacon, and I’d wager a guess that’s because it is. Now, if your bacon is round, that can only mean one thing (and this might come as a shock): You are Canadian. Your bacon belongs on pizza with pineapples and literally nowhere else. Hey, I don’t make the rules, I just go here.

But I digress.

The point is that now you can get the bacon AND the ‘nator (aka beef) at home, along with the Wendy’s chili we absolutely loved. All that’s left to hit the grocery aisles are nuggets, fries, and Frosties, and at that point, we can all change our names to Wendy since we could make ourselves a veritable Wendy’s feast right from the comfort of our own kitchens. Truly, we don’t know what this bacon tastes like, but if it even holds a candle to the canned chili or even normal Wendy’s Baconator bacon, then I’d say it’s pretty good bacon. But then again, I have yet to meet a bacon (without a qualifier, looking at you turkey bacon and Canadian bacon) I dislike.

As for where you can find this new restaurant-inspired “extra thick cut” Wendy’s bacon, the answer is a store near you…probably. It was spotted this week at a Kroger in Kentucky by food news Instagram account @markie_devo and since the burgers were initially a test in only Columbus, Ohio, and Denver, Colorado, and Kentucky isn’t Colorado, this bacon being on shelves there bodes well for the smoky, umami strips to be available nationwide. And who knows, if we can get Arnold Schwarzenegger to eat a Baconator with an alligator and Dr. Doofenschmirtz, then we could get some real “words that end in -ator” synergy going, and I, for one, am here for it.