Our local butchers are all over the map on their bacon. Some are excellent, while the butcher I get my cow from, is great with beef and hams, but I really don’t like his bacon. We have one butcher shop that dates from 1921’ that is located on a farm about 35 miles away, really in the boonies, that has excellent bacon. For years I would take a trip out there on my motorcycle and load up my saddlebags with packs of bacon and ice wrapped in plastic and crammed in my saddlebags, and bring it home. Kind of miss that trip, but they closed their smokehouse 4 years ago, and started to bring in bacon from Minnesota.