I n March 2024, a curious post appeared on Facebook users' feeds, claiming that Aldi's bacon, sold under the store's brand name Appleton Farms, was composed of lab-grown cells, rather than pigs ...

I think the Appleton Farms bacon and Clancy's pork rinds are some of the best things to get at Aldi. Nathan Shackelford 2025-04-01T15:37:02Z ...

Aldi's store brand of bacon was and still is Appleton Farms. However, the rumor got started because there's a totally separate company in Canada called Appleton Meats that does make lab-grown meat.

A good quality Canadian bacon should be lean, not chewy, and have a pleasant flavor that is porcine, yet a great balance of sweet and savory. This variety from Appleton Farms was a decent example ...