Good news, bacon lovers (yes, that means you)!

There is now a bacon emoji.

The symbol for your favorite cured pork product, along with 71 other characters, is coming out in the next version of Unicode. Other symbols that will be in the version 9.0 release include a soaring eagle, a salad, a shark, clinking champagne glasses, whiskey on the rocks, an egg, a pregnant woman and … an avocado.

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A full listing of the 72 new emojis can be found here: http://blog.emojipedia.org/new-unicode-9-emojis/

Of course, if you’re not sure what an emoji is, it’s those silly little images that all the kool kidz put in their textings on those google machines and apple machines they carry around in their pockets.

It used to be, when typing online, back in the days of CompuServe and other such services, you’d crack a joke and type <g>

Next either came LOL or :)

Now, those texting machine — and computers — will automatically turn those texty things into little pictures. Like :) is now 🙂 on everything. In fact, WordPress converts it automatically. You should have seen me trying to write this and to make :) appear as :) and not as 🙂

Anyway, emojis are a thing, apparently. But now, they’re a good thing. Because bacon!

So, yeah, we can use it here, if we choose, once companies (including WordPress) start including it in their coding. And once we know what text string will cause it to be converted to bacon. And we don’t know when that will be.

Until then? I still like the thing we do here with ~~~ to represent bacon. Now the rest of the world is catching up.