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1 slice of pan-fried bacon is under 50 calories. If that's the meat in my sandwich, yeah, I think 8 sounds pretty reasonable.

on the other hand, that's a lot of salt. nearly 200mg of sodium per slice. so yeah, if you are watching your sodium intake? probably a bad idea. But calorie-wise, completely reasonable.

You can limit the sodium intake on the options page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon#Australia_and_New_Zealand

We have different bacon to Americans.

I'm assuming it's not talking about thick-cut bacon... that sounds just about right to me.