<<I must agree.  I cannot for the life of me see bacon as a Paleolithic
food.  At least not the way modern bacon is made.  There are things in
there that our ancestors never even dreamed of.>>

  You can count me in on this one, too.  There may have been some salting of
meat in some cultures in order to help preserve it, but smoking it, adding
nitrites and nitrates??  I don't think so.

Siobhan