Bacon is having its moment. It's always been popular but now, driven by reduced cost and innovative concoctions, its popularity has exploded - in the US in particular. Bacon is everywhere. A fast-food chain is putting bacon on its vegetarian burger and calling it the Hypocrite Burger.Food outlets offer bacon milk shakes, bacon martinis and bacon peanut brittle.Overseas demand has slowed and created a glut that has sent prices to deliciously low levels.At the US supermarket bacon is down 25% in a year.As beef costs reach all-time highs, restaurants are adding bacon to more dishes because it "raises the flavour profile of an otherwise cheaper piece of meat", said one chef.It's also become a favourite of daring chefs. Burke's Bacon Bar, in Newark, New Jersey, makes reuben sandwiches with bacon kraut, and for dessert peanut bacon brittle.A t US Cellular Field, where the Chicago White Sox play baseball, fans can order rashers of barbecue-spiced bacon, brown sugar-glazed bacon and jalapeno bacon...