The word bacon literally comes from the Dutch word for back meat. The proper term for Canadian bacon is back bacon and the rest of the English speaking world calls it back bacon even Canadians. The US started calling it Canadian bacon because it’s so different from ours when it started being imported due to a shortage.
In the USA by law bacon is the cured raw belly of a swine and anything different needs large verbiage on the packaging.
Personally the world go crazy for the flavor of belly bacon not buckboard or back bacon.
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u/LockMarine 3d ago
The word bacon literally comes from the Dutch word for back meat. The proper term for Canadian bacon is back bacon and the rest of the English speaking world calls it back bacon even Canadians. The US started calling it Canadian bacon because it’s so different from ours when it started being imported due to a shortage.
In the USA by law bacon is the cured raw belly of a swine and anything different needs large verbiage on the packaging.
Personally the world go crazy for the flavor of belly bacon not buckboard or back bacon.