Whats up with Canadian bacon?

Question

Canadian bacon is ham. So do Canadians call it Canadian bacon, just bacon, or ham? And if they do call it Canadian bacon what gives them the right to change the name of ham?

Answer 1

Why do you care? Are you the name police?

Answer 2

As a Canadian, I can assure you that we call bacon bacon, and so-called "canadian bacon" ham.  Or at least in my part of the country we do (hey, it is a big country...).

Answer 3

I think Americans call it Canadian bacon in order to give it a "flair" so Canadians in turn call Bacon (make out of pork) ham, just to throw us a curve ball.  Either way it doesn't give anyone the right to mess with good food :)

Answer 4

Funny, just like they don't call it french bread in France.

Answer 5

Ham comes from the thigh of a pig whereas Canadian Bacon is from the tenderloin and hence the Canadian reference of back bacon. Once upon a time an Aussie visiting Toronto asked me where the Canadian Bacon was. I told him that it's been exported to Australia and elsewhere in the world, AND that was the truth.

Bacon that comes in strips is actually side bacon.

The Muse

Answer 6

its thick bacon. in  a sense, but its also much leaner than regular bacon.

Answer 7

It's ham in the shape of bacon, eh? lmao. I agree. At least call is Can-ham, because that lets you make a catchy jingle for it xD

Answer 8

Isn't it a special kind of bacon/ham? Plus I don't know anybody in Canada who actually says Canadian bacon, so I guess the Americans made that up!

Answer 9

idk maybe they made candian bacon before us and then we changed bacon to what we think it is. so maybe we are the ones who are wronng. their candian bacon looks like bacon to them but looks like our ham

Answer 10

I KNOW IT IS JUST BASICALLY HAM

Answer 11

I believe canadian bacon was an american invention.  I've never seen it up here.  We call that stuff "back-bacon".  I wouldnt touch any of it with a ten-foot pole.

Answer 12

I think we call it ham more than Canadian bacon.  From my knowledge i find that Americans call it Canadian bacon more than we do.

Answer 13

Canadian Bacon was originally called Canadian Bacon by Americans anyway. We didn't name it that.

Answer 14

Well I will clear it up, I am a former chef and a Canadian, jzesupreme is partial right and Dee is wrong, it is called back bacon here, it is a rolled smoked boneless pork loin, and is available here and used in most places.

More for McD's stuff, and most places who serve eggs benedict use it, the peameal bacon that the one fellow spoke of is a unsmoked cured pork loin, rolled in cornmeal and sliced or roasted whole and sliced like a roast, it is a bit more pricey like Back Bacon, we do have regular strip bacon, light, turkey and chicken style and even a veggie one.

Answer 15

My Canadian friends just call it bacon. It's fried like bacon, unlike ham, though it looks a lot different. In the United Kingdom, bacon looks the same, except it's in thick strips instead of circles like the Canadian bacon. I think it's good!

Answer 16

canadian bacon isn't ham, ham is ham, canadian bacon is what you would call back bacon or peameal bacon

and we call it that not canadian bacon

Answer 17

What else do you get out of Canada except Hockey and Lebatts Beer?  Canadians need something Canadian dont they.  I live in Detroit 30 miles from Canada.  When is the last time you had a Canadian meal????   They dont have any.

Answer 18

you have my mind spinning lol

Answer 19

mmmm, canadian bacon is yummy

Answer 20

HOW silly

all these answers and NO one Knows,,,,

IT is called marketing

lean cuts of,, pork,,, pig,, ham,, whatever smoked & salted ??? canned ??? however .... Marketing

IT is good stuff and IF you can afford IT..

I remember a time when it was cheeper and than American Bacon even in the can (tin)