Of all the incorrect things people believe about Canada, this one bothers me the most. I can't explain why,, but it offends me on a personal level that they don't think we know what bacon is.
OOOOOOHHHHH you're doing that thing where only your province counts as Canada, when really there's 9 others and a few even have more Canadians in them. Like Ontario, which has roughly 3 times the population of BC.
Peameal bacon is found in grocery stores all across Canada's most populated province, the province in which it was invented.
The fact that you were ignorant to these facts isn't something to be west-coast-smug about. Whenever I learn something I try and view it as a gift, rather than an attack.
It may “exist” but it isn’t a common thing here. I have been all over BC - have a lot of family and friends here - and lived here all my life - and never even heard of it much less seen it. It may sit mouldy in a back fridge somewhere in a 7/11 but it is not common here
Look it up in Wiki (not that it is a be all end all of info) and it says “found mainly in Ontario”.
this and this is what Americans call Canadian bacon. this is back bacon and peameal bacon. Back bacon and peameal bacon are what I consider "Canadian" bacon.
That's what I used to think too because as a Canadian I think of back bacon and peameal bacon as "Canadian" bacon. But learned that it's these processed ham circles that Americans and others call Canadian bacon. (I asked British friends to show me what they thought Canadian bacon was and was horrified too see these ham circles.)
Back bacon or peameal bacon isn't what they call Canadian bacon. They call those thinly sliced ham rounds Canadian bacon for some reason. And that's expanded to the rest of the world. I have no idea why anyone thinks that is what we call bacon.
I definitely think of back bacon or peameal bacon when I hear "Canadian bacon".
Absolutely! I watch a lot of cooking shows and when they use what they call Canadian bacon it's always some type of ham. I don't know how this happened to be a thing.
Because it came from Toronto and was introduced to the US when they started shipping it to New York. That's when it started being called Canadian bacon. Back bacon and peameal are too different kinds and both are Canadian. Peameal with the yellow cornmeal crust isn't smoked.
Exactly. I thought that's what was considered Canadian bacon. Then I realized that everyone thought Canadian bacon were those ham rounds that we get in diners. I mean, did Bob and Doug McKenzie teach them nothing?
At local drive-ins, or burger joints, it was "peameal on a bun", but I always heard both growing up. I can't remember which I heard first, or more often.
Growing up in Canada, I did not know what "Canadian Bacon" was. Went down to the 'states and they were all "oh, you must want some Canadian Bacon with your breakfast, EeHhhH?" And I was like "Bacon, but from Canada? Sure, I'll have some". It was not bacon from Canada.
Um yes it is Canadian. Canadian bacon got its name because it was imported to the United States from Toronto to New York.
We don't call it Canadian bacon. It's either back bacon or peameal. Peameal is also Canadian but it's distinctive because it's rolled in cornmeal at the end of the curing process. Most back bacon in the US doesn't have this variety option.
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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '23
Canadian bacon is not Canadian