A bacon emoji is coming

One of the most highly anticipated emojis is coming to your keyboard: bacon.

Not since the addition of cheese and the taco has there been such excitement over food-related emojis, but come June, you can now depict a proper American breakfast of bacon and eggs using only the pictures on your keyboard. Thanks to the approval of 72 new emojis, you’ll even be able to throw an avocado on top of your eggs, and eat them along with a stack of pancakes.

Unicode, the organization that approves universal standards for software characters and letters, approved the new list for release in June. However, the emojis won’t appear on Apple, Android and Microsoft operating systems until those companies roll out new software including the updated images.

In addition to bacon, avocado and pancakes, other new culinary additions include carrot, croissant, egg, green salad, glass of milk, baguette bread, potato and kiwi.

New animals include a fox face, deer, gorilla, eagle, lizard shark and butterfly. New human and facial expression emojis include the selfie, shrug and face palm, as well as a nauseated face, a lying face with a Pinocchio nose, and a prince.

A number of sports-related emojis, like boxing, fencing and a cartwheel, are also being added just before the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. First, second and third place medals will also be added.

Another food emoji, the dumpling, has seen an extended campaign for its addition to the emoji roster. It won’t be added this year, but is under consideration for addition next year.

You can see the full list of approved emojis here. Have an emoji you can’t survive without? Anyone can suggest one by following these instructions.

This story was originally published June 2, 2016 at 1:11 PM with the headline "A bacon emoji is coming."