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I'm bored and I will assume others are also bored, so lets have an intelligent debate about the merits of bacon vs. Canadian Bacon (otherwise known as Back Bacon).

Personally I prefer real old fashioned bacon. There's a farm out where I used to live that smokes and makes their own bacon and it is delicious.

What about you?


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On a side note. I think there should be some kind of scale or measure of the quality of bacon. There's the crap no name brand bacon that's 1/2 water which would be at one end of the spectrum and then there would be God Bacon which I imagine as delicious to no end.

I go to our local wholesalers and buy 500g packs of pre-cooked streaky bacon (is that back bacon?). I can then make a bacon sandwich with just 20 seconds in the microwave. I will be dead by 30

For my money, streaky ftw!

Shouldn't this be Off-Topic?

Personally, I think there is room for both on a pizza.

Canadian bacon, or back bacon or gammon bacon is taken from the pork loin, which we in the US typically use for pork chops. That's why it so often comes in a vaguely cylindrical form and is very, very lean.

Conventional US bacon or streaky/rasher bacon is taken from the belly of the hog, which is why it comes in flat 'slabs' and has such a high fat content.

I, personally, prefer belly bacon.

The Best Thing I Have Ever Eaten, however, is a braised pork belly. When done right, the pork belly has almost a candied flavor and the fat is melt-in-your-mouth full of flavor. There is just enough lean meat in belly to give a very pleasant conssitency, like a delicate, flavorful bacon steak. Korean-style BBQ with a pork belly is an amazing dish, and by limiting ourselves mostly to belly as a breakfast meat in the USA we really do miss out on different ways to enjoy belly.

Vulcan wrote:Shouldn't this be Off-Topic?

Indeed. Boredom is not an excuse to spam the wargaming specific sections OP.

I'll go with what I had for breakfast this morning. Belly bacon. Food of the gods.

Canadian bacon is just sliced ham, correct?

More like Ham Vs. Bacon

...and I'll take bacon for breakfast, ham for my pizza/sammiches

mega_bassist wrote:More like Ham Vs. Bacon

...and I'll take bacon for breakfast, ham for my pizza/sammiches

Yes. First person I've ever met who also likes Ham Pizzas.

:brofist:

Holla

:brofist:

Most of my friends swear by pepperoni...Eh, it's alright, by my least favorite of pizza meat

EDIT: Spelling

You ever tried Hawaiian? (Ham and Pineapple)

OHMYGOSH

I love Hawaiian haha

:doublebrofist:

Chowderhead wrote:Canadian bacon is just sliced ham, correct?

Yes, it tries to trick you by flasely claiming to be bacon's Canadian cousin...

give me bacon strips anyday over sliced ham...goes much better with eggs and pancakes...

WARORK93 wrote:
give me bacon strips anyday over sliced ham...goes much better with eggs and pancakes...

Eggs and bacon rolled up in pancakes? That's the only way to do it.

mega_bassist wrote:OHMYGOSH

I love Hawaiian haha

:doublebrofist:

In Germany we used to have a thing called Hawaiian Toast, which I don't think I have ever seen in the states:

Take a piece of toast, place a slice of ham on top, then a ring of pineapple, then cover with a slice of cheese.

Pop underneath the broiler for a minute or stick it in a toaster oven, enjoy your toast.

Chowderhead wrote:Canadian bacon is just sliced ham, correct?

It can come from the ham, but more commonly from the loin-end. Ham typically ends up as the breakfast meat of the same name.

All this talk of bacon made me forget about pork roll.

Which are incredibly awesome and are second only to bacon.

Anything gets better once you say it's Canadian, eh?

CuddlySquig wrote:Anything gets better once you say it's Canadian, eh?

Of course. What else did you think would happen, eh?

CuddlySquig wrote:Anything gets better once you say it's Canadian, eh?

Hockey, beer, and maple syrup? Yes

Bacon? No so much

Off-topic: What is that Molson with the gold label called? I know you can't get it in the US, and the label is in French(iirc)...and it's delicious

this isn't even a question


Bacon > most everything else in life

DIDM wrote:

Bacon > most everything else in life

Most everything in life < Bacon < The finer things in life < More bacon < Personal Beliefs < Bacon

MajorTom11 wrote:Indeed. Boredom is not an excuse to spam the wargaming specific sections OP.

Sorry Tom, my mistake.

Off-topic: What is that Molson with the gold label called? I know you can't get it in the US, and the label is in French(iirc)...and it's delicious

I apologize for all of Canada when people associate Molson Canadian with good beer, it's crap. Try the following: Tree Breweries (BC interior), Philips Breweries(Vancouver Island), Granville Island (Vancouver), Unibroue - they make ridiculously strong beer (9%) (Quebec)

On topic, this is awesome - http://www.bbqaddicts.com/blog/recipes/bacon-explosion/

Canadian bacon is for sammaches and delicious at that. Going off taste I go with bacon, but if I'm actually hungry and need something filling I'm going with a sandwich with Canadian bacon. Oddly, I don't like bacon on my sandwiches, but its wonderful by itself.

Tronzor wrote:

Off-topic: What is that Molson with the gold label called? I know you can't get it in the US, and the label is in French(iirc)...and it's delicious

I apologize for all of Canada when people associate Molson Canadian with good beer, it's crap. Try the following: Tree Breweries (BC interior), Philips Breweries(Vancouver Island), Granville Island (Vancouver), Unibroue - they make ridiculously strong beer (9%) (Quebec)

Well, thanks for the suggestion, but I think it's a decent beer - all a matter of opinion, ya know? I'm still looking for that specific kind, though

Vulcan wrote:Shouldn't this be Off-Topic?

Personally, I think there is room for both on a pizza.

/thread


you win.... I love back bacon on my pizza, along with peperoni, salami, ground beef, bacon bits and ham on my pizza's =o]


Beer and bacon, what is better in life? =o]


Also Grandville Island pale ale is awsome, although I prefer Rye or Whiskey at $90 a bottle...the cheep stuff... I wish I could afford the good stuff.

Both...love em both...soft cooked...not crackling on bites

I prefer Bacon and his fattier, fresher sister Pork Belly, but then again I just enjoy pig... I would have to leave any country/religion where I was not allowed to touch Pork

Also d-usa, my dad and I do that all the time, though more often than not, we use thin, grilled slices of spam, but the deal is still the same

Avoid the middle east

Jihadin wrote:Avoid the middle east

Yeah I love the food that comes out of those cultures, but I also love my pig, roasted, grilled, fried, however I can get it