English
facon
Blend of fake + bacon.
Proto-West Germanic *fegōn ‘to clean up, polish’
Old Saxon fegōn
Middle Low German vēgen
German Low German fegen
English feague ‘to spruce up, embellish’
English fake
Proto-Germanic *bakô
Frankish *bakō ‘ham, flitch’
Anglo-Norman bacon
Middle English bacoun ‘meat from the back and sides of a pig’
English bacon
Today it means
noun Vegetarian bacon; meat-free imitation bacon, generally made with tofu, tempeh, beans, or buckwheat.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / facon