A few years ago (well, 2013 – wow…thirteen years ago already!) a guy called Eric Chemi created a lovely fun map showing which US states preferred kale, and which preferred bacon. Curiously it pretty much went down political lines with kale being favoured in Democratic states, and bacon in Republican states. So i thought I’d see if we couldn’t replicate the map (or a version of it) for today’s day. here goes…

Original Prompt (ChatGPT)

For National Bacon Lover’s Day I’d like you to create a variation of the classic map that went viral a few years ago titled “The United States of Kale vs Bacon’. Please make a map of the states of the US and illustrate which states prefer kale, and which states prefer bacon by shading them using pictures of kale or bacon.