Bacon bacon bacon!

[tomh009]

It was a whole thing, I'd be curious to know the origin of the term "Canadian Bacon" but it does seem to be causing some confusion in the US. It's a silly confusion though...ultimately, pigs are the same here as there, ergo, they have all the same bacony parts.

Back in the 1800s the UK had a pork shortage so they were forced into importing pork from Canada. It was basically peameal bacon (made from the loin of the pig!), cured in brine, and then rolled in powdered yellow peas. The Brits then smoked it, and they called this newfangled thing "Canadian Bacon" (as a substitute for the local one). The food and the name made its way to the US (where the standard bacon is far more fatty), and it stuck there, but nowhere else.