How much do you know about bacon (other than it’s tasty)?

1. KFC recently released its Double Down sandwich, which features bacon, cheese and “sauce” between two original-recipe chicken breasts. What’s the calorie count?

a) 1,380

b) 830

c) 540

2. Fattening as that sandwich is, it pales compared with the Wendy’s Baconator Double (two quarter-pound beef patties, six strips of bacon), which weighs in at how many calories?

a) 1,380

b) 980

c) 830

3. A Chicago Sun-Times food blogger recently wrote about bringing which dessert treat to her daughter’s school?

a) Bacon chocolate chip cookies

b) Maple bacon lollipops

c) Bacon cheesecake

4. Maple bacon lollipops, made by Lolliphile, are a real candy treat. The company recently added which ingredient to make the bacon pops even more appetizing?

a) Scrambled eggs

b) Caffeine

c) Vodka

5. Bacon Salt, featuring “Natural Hickory Smoke Flavor,” is another way to get bacon flavor, but with fewer calories. (And it comes from a Seattle-based business that also makes Baconnaise.) How many calories are in a quarter-teaspoon (1 gram) of bacon salt?

a) 0

b) 10

c) 100

6. According to the Supermarket Guru Web site, between 2005 and 2009, the number of bacon burgers offered at the nation’s restaurants rose by what percentage?

a) 12.5 percent

b) 35 percent

c) 66.2 percent

Sacramento Bee

ANSWERS: 1: c, 540 calories; 2: c, 830; 3: a, bacon chocolate chip cookies; 4: b, caffeine; 5: a, 0; 6: b, 35 percent.