We're all going to be OK: More about the alleged bacon shortage

The New York Times calmed the fears of bacon lovers worldwide on Feb. 1 when it tagged an alleged bacon shortage as "fake news." A group went so far as to create baconshortage.com, saying that bacon reserves are "depleting."

The bacon shortage website no longer loads, and the Times wants you to know that we're all going to continue to be able to eat our bacon, egg and cheese breakfast tacos.

But major news organizations -- "USA Today, NBC, CBS, Men's Health and Business Insider," the Times says -- didn't get the memo before they ran with the story.

An Associated Press story explains that frozen pork belly in the U.S. was at a record low at the end of 2016. Say it with me: Oh no, not the pork belly! Restaurateurs in the Dallas area and beyond have been putting the popular pork product on burgers, in ramen and on pizza for years. Pork belly is a thing.

If anything, the state of frozen pork belly could just mean bacon prices go up.

No problem, though: "People will pay what it costs to buy bacon because they love it," says Steve Meyer, a pork industry economist for Express Markets Inc. in an AP story.

And Epicurious makes a good point: "You can hardly blame the pig farmers for trying to suggest a little artificial scarcity; they've gotta bring home the bacon too."

The AP contributed to this story.