Is bacon, as we know it in the US (and especially here in SigForum), commonly eaten elsewhere in the world? Canadian bacon (back bacon) is certainly different, although I’d bet that some Canadians eat US-style bacon. British “rashers” are different too. Brits also eat “streaky” bacon, which appears to be the same cut as US bacon, but usually isn’t smoked, I think.

But otherwise, it appears that US-style bacon is indeed pretty much unique to the US. Poor sods – no proper BLTs. I’ll be making mine with a beautiful heirloom tomato today.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/a...nd-the-world-2018-10

Just another reason that the US is the best country on Earth!

Here's a picture of some bacon I did in the US for reference. How could you not want it just like this and as much as possible:


Now I'm hungry.

I've seen at at hotel breakfast buffets all over the world. There is local variation in taste about how crispy it should be, but the product is pretty much the same.

It tends to disappear pretty fast, so I'd say it has an international fanbase.

It was available when I was in Norway, albeit a bit thinner than I prefer, and not as crispy.

They had it on the breakfast buffet at the hotel I stayed in in Prague. I don't know if they did this for American guest but my wife and I seemed to be the only Americans staying there.

Probably don’t have it in Iran or Iraq, et. al. Heathens!

My ex-wife is from New Zealand. Imagine my surprise when I first had bacon there. In texture, it was similar to Canadian bacon, but it tasted like normal bacon. The last time I was there, most packages were a hybrid of sorts in that they had both the strip of bacon we expect, but the large meaty piece still attached as well.

We had bacon available in Japan but I never looked for it in the Japanese markets. We always bought it on base.

For the BEST tasting bacon, I use my solar oven and put it on a rack. That way , it doesn't soak up the grease and I can cook eggs/french toast, etc., when the bacon is close to the way I like it:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAXD7mnJPyM

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Originally posted by smlsig:
Just another reason that the US is the best country on Earth!

cool.

Bacon the way you know is known in Europe since the 10th century. There was no USA back then so we are simply calling it bacon, but it´s the same product.

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Originally posted by hile:
My ex-wife is from New Zealand. <snip> The last time I was there, most packages were a hybrid of sorts in that they had both the strip of bacon we expect, but the large meaty piece still attached as well.

Sounds like the Australian middle bacon described in the link in my OP.

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Originally posted by erj_pilot:
Probably don’t have it in Iran or Iraq, et. al. Heathens!

I actually had it in Abu Dhabi. But it was beef, not pork. Still tasted decent actually.

In nicer hotels overseas that attract US customers, I've seen bacon. They're either curing a pork belly in-house or, they work with a butcher who can make it and sells to those hotels. Most of the time, they serve it correctly, either crisped-up or, semi-crisp.

Most hotels and Bn'Bs that 'attempt' to serve it in their buffet results in a Canadian-ham type or, simply sliced pork, a fatty loin but not crisped, usually very wet, noodle-like. Sausage is much more popular as there's a richer food history with sausages.

I’ve had it in hotels in Melbourne & Sydney as well as various places in Costa Rica.

If it isn’t American style bacon, it’s something else.

-Rob

Korean bacon. Yum!

In the US, we are enlightened enough to understand that bacon should be crispy (just as we understand that toilet paper rolls should be positioned with the paper on the outside). Much of the world lives in a sad bacon shadow and serves floppy, half-cooked bason with too much fat. It's gross.

And then there's the middle east, where men are terrified of bacon and its healing properties, and live in a world not worth living in: a world without bacon.

We had it on the breakfast buffet in Stockholm when we were there.

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Originally posted by OTD:

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Originally posted by smlsig:
Just another reason that the US is the best country on Earth!

cool.

Bacon the way you know is known in Europe since the 10th century. There was no USA back then so we are simply calling it bacon, but it´s the same product.

That’s like saying the Chinese invented spaghetti...they may have invented noodles but the Italians took it to a whole new level...just like we did with how we eat our bacon.

I think one of our members here, maybe Jeff Larchin (?), karma’s off some great bacon every year. You should try and get it the next time he does it...

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Originally posted by IntrepidTraveler:

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Originally posted by erj_pilot:
Probably don’t have it in Iran or Iraq, et. al. Heathens!

I actually had it in Abu Dhabi. But it was beef, not pork. Still tasted decent actually.

Then it wasn't actually bacon. It was some prostituted version of beef jerky. Just sayin'...