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June 3, 2015 / 12:22 PM

Bacon-scented Indiana lottery scratch-off prize: 20 years of bacon

The $2 Bringin' Home the Bacon tickets offer five chances to win a 20-year supply of bacon, which would be paid in installments.

Photo courtesy Hoosier Lottery

Photo courtesy Hoosier Lottery

INDIANAPOLIS, June 3 (UPI) -- Indiana's Hoosier Lottery is rolling out a bacon-scented scratch-off card that counts a 20-year supply of bacon among its potential prizes.

The Hoosier Lottery's Bringin' Home the Bacon tickets, following in the footsteps of the New Hampshire Lottery's similarly bacon-scented I (Heart) Bacon tickets, officer instant prices of up to $10,000 and five chances to win a 20-year supply of bacon, which would be paid out in installments.

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The $2 tickets went on sale Tuesday.

The Hoosier Lottery's website promoting the tickets includes recipes, a bacon quiz and a "bacon cam" featuring footage of bacon frying.

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