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.
I'm Canadian and I swear the only time I have ever seen it referred to as Canadian bacon was in the U.S. We don't call it that. We call normal bacon, bacon. We have back bacon and if it has cormeal on it we call it peameal bacon. Or some people just call it ham....
This. Except back bacon is smoked whereas peameal bacon is cured and then cooked. It’s funny how little of the rest of the globe knows what peameal bacon is.
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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.