If you want to be classy, you cut the bacon yourself and you call them lardon.

I think bacon bits are just a relic of the late 20th century. People still love bacon, but more people have access to functional kitchens where they can cook and freeze their own bacon at home, prefer less packaging on their food, and try to consume a more “organic” diet, things like bacon bits and pre-processed croutons on baked potatoes and salads are just not worth the price they’re charged for anymore. Literally the most basic home cook can make bacon with a griddle or frying pan now, which will be so much tastier and satisfying than buying some dry ground pork product which costs the same amount as the overly processed “meat” you get in a bacon bits jar.

They are on pretty much every salad bar I see, I do have to admit that it sure seems there are a lot less salad bars now.

Bacon bits are still for sale in all the grocery stores I use. I like them in a number of egg dishes.

You know you can just cook some bacon right? Like… Throw it in the oven at 400 for 30 minutes and you have a months worth of bacon bits (and to the cooks out there yes I am including the time necessary to turn edible bacon into desiccated mummy flesh nibs)

I think they are terrible in anything that's not a soup or stew. I don't like sparsely crunchy food typically though.

My partner makes baconish bits by mixing large coconut flakes with paprika and some other stuff and then crisping it in the oven. Pretty good.

I've just been making my own