Anonymous
Post 02/26/2024 14:28     Subject: What is the origins of the term "Bringing home the bacon?"
The origin, while lost to time, surely can only be:

Racist
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2024 14:04     Subject: What is the origins of the term "Bringing home the bacon?"
Between the years 1908-1910, the US was a hog-based economy. It was brief but glorious. Gold reasserted itself but our language was forever changed.
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2024 14:03     Subject: What is the origins of the term "Bringing home the bacon?"
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:duckduckgo search....


Huh?


Never use Google. Ever.

Only use the search engine DuckDuckGo.com

You can thank us later.


Using google allows them to buy and sell you like a cheap
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2024 14:02     Subject: What is the origins of the term "Bringing home the bacon?"
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:duckduckgo search....


Huh?


Never use Google. Ever.

Only use the search engine DuckDuckGo.com

You can thank us later.
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2024 14:01     Subject: What is the origins of the term "Bringing home the bacon?"
Anonymous wrote:The origins are probably too old to say, but it generally means earning enough money to feed the members of the household. In other words, support the family.


So it has nothing to do with Kevin Bacon groupies?
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2024 14:00     Subject: Re:What is the origins of the term "Bringing home the bacon?"
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2024 14:00     Subject: What is the origins of the term "Bringing home the bacon?"
Anonymous wrote:Back in the days when we were paid in bacon.

The good old days.


We used to be paid in salt, but the cheap Byzantine Empire changed all that.
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2024 13:54     Subject: What is the origins of the term "Bringing home the bacon?"
The origins are probably too old to say, but it generally means earning enough money to feed the members of the household. In other words, support the family.
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2024 13:41     Subject: What is the origins of the term "Bringing home the bacon?"
Back in the days when we were paid in bacon.

The good old days.
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2024 13:36     Subject: What is the origins of the term "Bringing home the bacon?"
Anonymous wrote:duckduckgo search....


Huh?
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2024 12:40     Subject: Re:What is the origins of the term "Bringing home the bacon?"


So the phrase was not invented by Kevin Bacon groupies?
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2024 12:29     Subject: What is the origins of the term "Bringing home the bacon?"
This is not the sort of thing most native English speakers know. Most of us just google:

https://jonathanbecher.com/2020/06/14/bring-home-the-bacon/
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2024 12:28     Subject: What is the origins of the term "Bringing home the bacon?"
Anonymous wrote:duckduckgo search....


I have always thought it came from the three little pigs.
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2024 12:25     Subject: What is the origins of the term "Bringing home the bacon?"
duckduckgo search....
Anonymous
Post 02/26/2024 12:23     Subject: What is the origins of the term "Bringing home the bacon?"
English is not my 1st language. I am still learning.