Canadian bacon

[Dominic]

all other pork products are pwnd by this:

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[stabn]

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"Peameal bacon is made from boneless pork loins, short cut from the leaner portions of the loin, to ensure a more uniform product. External fat is trimmed to within 1⁄8 inch. Smokeless and tender, this product is sweet pickle-cured and rolled in a traditional golden cornmeal coating, maintaining the processing tradition of real Canadian peameal bacon."

Canadian Bacon

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This is not canadian bacon. This is bullshit passed off as canadians as canadian bacon.

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Don't you mean 'by' Canadians?

BTW, Hurricane Rita > you.

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O Wows i made a typo.

Okay, I came here to learn about poker and I'm talking about bacon.

I'm Canadian. I have no idea why Canadian bacon is called Canadian Bacon - in fact, I'm not even sure we did that.

Bacon and Canadian bacon is the same thing in Canada as it is here (I currently live in CA). Canadian bacon is more less ham. We also have back bacon, which is a little thicker, a little fattier, and often includes the rind.

[ddubois]

This one time when I was about 11, my dad and I ordered some Egg McMuffins before heading into his store on a weekend. When I got to the office, I noticed the box said "Canadian Bacon", and I thought to myself: "Huh? Egg McMuffins don't have bacon, they contain ham." Being a bright and inquisitive child, I opened up the sandwhich to confirm that, indeed, between the english muffins there was what I considered to be ham. And a small, crispy, fried cockroach.

My dad went back and had the manager give him two sandwiches to replace the tainted one. Were it not for those words "canadian bacon", I would have eaten a cockroach, probably placed there intentionally by some mischievous teenager. From now on, whenever someone says canadian bacon, I think of this story. Thus, for me, the working definition of canadian bacon is: "It's like ham, but check for cockroaches."

[Barrett's Last Privateer]

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It maybe related but bacon in Australia is what Americans call ham

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So, if I, as an Australian, have what I'd call bacon and you'd call ham, what do you call what I'd call ham?

This photo implies Americans only refer to part of the rasher as bacon (perhaps meaning the rest is referred to as ham?):





FWIW, this is what I'd call ham:

[Cosimo]

There are four wholesale cuts of pork (excluding the jowl). These are the shoulder (front legs), belly (this cut is the "pork bellies" mentioned in Trading Places), loin (back), and leg.

Most "hams", like "christmas hams" and some of the pics above, are legs.

What Americans call bacon is a belly cut. What Americans call Canadian Bacon is a loin cut. Beef tenderloins (filet mignon) are long, cylindrical muscles that come from the loin cut from beef; pigs have a similar long muscle group. You know how pork chops have like this little round bit of meat surrounded by fat and connective tissue? That's the tenderloin. Canadian bacon is smoked pork tenderloin.

EDIT: bacon, btw, is the belly cut (minus the shortribs) that has been cured and smoked.

[tonypaladino]

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Okay, I came here to learn about poker

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This is what we call bacon:

[ethan]

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There are four wholesale cuts of pork (excluding the jowl). These are the shoulder (front legs), belly (this cut is the "pork bellies" mentioned in Trading Places), loin (back), and leg.


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Limiting yourself to these four means you're missing out on a lot of good food.

[Ulysses]

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm, bacon!