Should it be illegal to label "Canadian Bacon" Bacon?

[Staximus]

It should be called "Canadian breakfast ham" It's more like lean ham and not even made from pork belly. It's really no kind if bacon at all.

Yes, it's Canadian breakfast ham

No, Canadian Bacon is real bacon

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I don't know why limeys think they know bacon

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Limeys, you don't know bacon

[Adventurer23]

No, because not all bacon is made with pork belly.

Also, the style of bacon pictured above is a bastardized and very processed version of "Canadian bacon". It's also worth mentioning "Canadian bacon" is an American term, which is fine, but that's not what we call it here in Canada. In Canada, there are two kinds, an it's called either "back bacon" or "peameal" bacon. "Peameal" bacon because, many years ago, it originally had an outer coating of crushed pea meal (very fine crushed yellow peas) on the outside. Although, today it's almost always made with cornmeal on the outside, unless it's homemade peameal. However, back bacon is much like peameal bacon, just without the pea meal or corn meal coating. Myself, I like both, but I prefer peameal.

Peameal/back bacon also tastes very different than a typical ham flavour. It's made from pork loin that is brined and cured with different spices for several days, sometimes even with sugar or maple syrup added if a sweeter version is wanted, but usually it is unsweetened. Then, in the case of peameal bacon, it is rolled in either cornmeal or pea meal, and then pieces are cut off and fried. Usually for breakfast or on a sandwich, but sometimes even baked as a whole loin as part of a meal.

This is what real peameal/back bacon looks like. There's about a million ways you can have a peameal sandwich, some of them really fancy and trendy, but the one below is the traditional, basic, "classic" version... and yes, they are delicious...

https://www.youtube.com/embed/nBegNNZOAD0

[RebelinSteel]

If anything they should ban that streaky crap, it’s horrendous not even proper bacon.

[Staximus]

The one in the right is not bacon, smart guy. Bacon is made from pork belly.

[RebelinSteel]

Actually no, bacon comes from the back as well. Go talk to a butcher.

[Staximus]

When it comes to bacon you don't know your ass from a hole in the ground. Bacon is not made from back or shoulder or whatever that crap is that you think is real bacon

[RebelinSteel]

englishbreakfastsociety.com/history-of-bacon.html

Read that, pretty much even before the US was discovered.

The really poor bit of the big is the belly.

[RebelinSteel]

Here from a butcher.

http://www.britishbutcher.co.uk/Page-49-

Fairly simple to understand and to follow.

[Staximus]

You pretty much screwed yourself on this one, pally. From your own source, in the beginning of the English breakfast society article "What the English were historically calling bacon at the time referred to a specific cut of pork belly"

[RebelinSteel]

Yes but it changed, the cheapest bit for poor people was the belly, always has been, it was left over from everyone else picking, well that and trotters. As society changed people could afford the better more expensive cuts, hence back bacon is pretty much the standard.

Short version - poor people ate the belly cut, people with cash ate the back bacon.

Also the back bacon is far more open to different curing techniques, where as streaky is really limited, pigs in blankets and basic stuff like that.

[Staximus]

You limeys don't know anything about smoking pork 🤣

[RebelinSteel]

I guess you know a lot about smoking pork, I will leave it to someone who obviously smokes a lot of pork. You said it.

[Staximus]

You can't just cure it

[Adventurer23]

@rebelinsteel LOL! My man! Shots fired! 😂 For the record though, I love both. lol And yes BOTH are bacon!

[FreyaRed]

Even real bacon is often made of leg, shoulder or loin instead of belly. Bacon is rather marketing name. It's not a price question since belly meat isn't more expensive than loin.
This "bacon" on that pic is some kind of mystery meat glued with enzymes into a round shape. It's called often "formed ham" it contains meat rests and lot of water with gelatin.

[Staximus]

It clearly says center cut pork loin

[purplepoppy]

Bacon is either from the loin, belly or better still both. It's the curing process that defines the quality more than the actual cut but personally I think it benefits from the extra fat.

[Staximus]

Poppy for the win

[PBandJ_Nerd]

I don't care if it's called bacon, it's good on egg breakfast sandwiches and that's all I care about.

[Staximus]

It's not bacon

[AviatorTom]

What the heck is breakfast ham? Can't I eat that for lunch or dinner? Call it what it is... Bacon from Canada.

[Staximus]

Ok, I'll give you Canadian ham but bacon it isn't.

[douride2]

I am Canadian & that stuff in the pic here is ham. I have never seen this so called Canadian bacon in the stores around here. I did some checking that stuff if processed in the USA. They just call it Canadian. It really isn't.

[Adventurer23]

Exactly. As I mentioned in my post, the one pictured is a bastardized and very processed version of "Canadian bacon". I also mentioned that it's made with pork loin, and that we call it either back bacon or peameal bacon here. 😉😁🇨🇦👍

[Anonymous]

No, it is not bacon, but to be fair what Americans call bacon is not real bacon either. Half the time it is impossible to tell what it is.

[Staximus]

Another person who doesn't know anything about bacon

[Staximus]

Congratulations

[Imsmurter1]

I'm reading the history of the word 'bacon' and it's basically any side of the pig. Doesn't have to be the belly.

[LRSJame]

Yess

[Anonymous]

It’s technically “ back bacon “ ✌️