Canadian bacon

I'm on this new diet and it says I can eat Canadian Bacon but I can't seem to find it here in Germany. Does anyone know what it's called in German? I read that Canadians don't call it 'Canadian Bacon' the way Americans do. Is that true?

i should imagine they just call it "Bacon" like Chinese Food is just called "Food" in China

@OG - what Americans (not sure about Canadians) call "Canadian bacon" is something somewhere in between bacon and ham.

source: wikipedia

It's a much thinner cut than you'd get in the UK.

What diet lets you eat Bacon?

My previous boss was on Atkins and you can eat all the bacon you like I think (don't quote me though). At least she did. She claimed the diet was 'wonderful' because she could scarf down loads of meat at one sitting. However, she had lots of problems because of it (aside from ketosis and having no energy...she had problems digesting and keeping regular if you get the drift).

In Canada we mainly call it 'peameal'...at least most people I know do. Some restaurants list it as 'back bacon' to avoid confusion.

I have never seen it here though...bacon here is very different than what most people are used to. Dunno where you might find it.

Yes - you can eat all the eggs and bacon you want on atkins. I did - I also lost a lot of weight. I didn't have any of those problems, but just got sick of so much meat and no carbs, no fruit, no beer. Then I went off it completely, then I had my second kid, developed a thyroid condition, quit smoking, am now a big balloon. damn - I suppose I should go on atkins again, but I would need proof that red wine is a protein Couldn't hack it otherwise.

Great Movie by the way!!! with John Candy, Rhea Perlmann, Micheal Moore, Alan Alda, and lots more!

The Aktins Diet is a movie ??

Are you blonde? or what DDBug?

ps- she is, and she is my bestfriend, so I can say that, and its not an insult

I always start giggling when my non-Canadian friends refer to "Canadian Bacon"... Reminds me of the American Wendy's commercials or something...like when they add it to a burger and say "Now with REAL Canadian Bacon!" When really they mean..."Hey we just added ham to this burger!"

"Canadian Bacon" - No Canadian Uses This Term
We call it Peameal Bacon...(right on Blimeygirl!)
It's not ham (like many of my American friends tend to think) It's called Back Bacon (I think) in British terms. They serve it @ Murphy's with the all day breakfast actually.

Bacon = the normal stuff that you'd get back home...longer strips of fatty flat pork...

Mmm...

Yep. Here's a link to argueably the best back bacon in Canada!!! JM Schneiders Back Bacon with nutritional requirements and all...(remember kids..don't overheat!!!) One of my old jobs was to load trucks full with this shite. Fun, eh?

funny that, in our house that bacon was called 'the good stuff'... never really knew it as anything else!

They do say that bacon is the closest meat in taste to human flesh.

I did hear alot of screaming and yelling in the slaughter room come to think of it?? As long as they're Americans I thought it was OK.

Easterners. Tssch. "peameal bacon" Tssch. It's back bacon.

Demi, try the German "Kassler". It's relatively similar.

Whew! Thanks Showem, I had never heard of Pealmeal Bacon, so I thought, I missed out one something, then I saw Canuck's link, and realized that was our 'good stuff' bacon or, yeah, as you said, Back Bacon.

or is that just an Ontario thing?

Is this the South Beach Diet?

Maybe it is an Ontario thing...never knew that. You Westies...get with the program

The "good stuff" is both for me but I love normal non-peameal bacon...

@canuck

I'm on The Abs Diet by David Zinczenko. "The six week plan to flatten your stomach and keep you lean for life." It's really good and I'm only into week 2. I can eat 3 meals and 3 snacks each day. Work out 20 minutes three times a week. Drink delicious Smoothies. There are 12 powerfoods (almonds and other nuts, beans and legumes, spinach and green veggies, low fat dairy products, oatmeal, eggs, turkey and other lean meats (including Canadian Bacon), peanut butter, olive oil, whole grain breads and cereals, protein powder, raspberries and other berries. I bought the book from Amazon and really like it. It's not really a diet but a lifestyle change. It has loads of good info. I've found everything but the Canadian Bacon. I went to the Metzgerie (sp?) and they said something about pork filet? Looked similar but I'm not sure. Any more suggestions?

Shouldn't that be "Moore" Demi?

sorry, it's Friday and I've very, very warm here

You said it my Ontarian sistah *high five*

Peameal Peameal Peameal

I actually really hate that word

You may have missed it earlier in our little bit of Canadiana arguing, but I suggested Kassler might be an equivalent cut.

darn easterners just don't know what they are talking about!!!

ok now when your in canada and you go down to the old grocery store and you buy bacon, isnt it usually treated with maple syrop? cause thats the kind of stuff i miss here. is there anywhere you can get it here, cause the bacon here is alright, but not the same.

back bacons good too though.

Danish unsmoked back bacon. 'There can only be one.' With apologies to Sean Connery.

I have lived in Canada my entire life (well, until now) and Never have I heard Back Bacon called Peameal Bacon. wtf?

***note to self: READ BEFORE POSTING.

no worries kat still appreciating the long since demised demaurier so all will be always forgiven.

Must be an Ontario thingy then...we always called it Peameal bacon...

Hmm, just thinking about it make me hungry (still dieting...but on Atkins type diet so can have Peameal bacon) hmmmm

but real bacon that is treated with maple syrop??? someone must help me. I am on withdrawl!

If you pour just a tablespoon of syrup into the pan when the bacon is nearly done, you get the same result. Just don't do it too soon or the sugar burns in the pan. Even better, rub your bacon around on your plate in the syrup that is running off of your stack of pancakes. Mmmmmm HUNGRY

Maple Leaf has Maple flavoured Bacon- its yummy! Like all maple flavoured stuff in Canada.

hmmmm, now I am really hungry!

Don't think you can get any of that here...sigh!!

No, but the Mini Mal by me, has Maple Leaf Chicken Wings, Niagra something (sort of honey garlic) and Rocky Mountain BBQ. They are about 2.99 for a 500g bag.

You know, it would stand to reason that if "canadian bacon" is acceptable, then all "ham" in general should be too, provided its not too fatty...

This diet sounds like a rehash of the South Beach and partially the Atkins diets. There are 2 ways to lose weight: consume less than you use (calories to calories burned); or deprive your body of quick energy "carbs" so it is forced to burn its own fat as fuel. Package it up, label it, hype it up, stand it on its head: every diet in the world will be fundamentally one of these two methods.

Peameal bacon and back bacon both sound nasty. From now on I will now simply call it "America Jr. bacon."

Damn, I wish I had a comeback for that Mr. America...I mean DW Just got in from work so my brain is in it's non-witty mode.

It's really good bacon though! Not nasty at all! Mmmm...I miss the food from home! Countdown til Christmas flight...

@ sk8rgrl

If you want you can call American food by its Canadian name; Canada Sr. BBQ, Canada Sr. cheese, etc.

There's no such thing as "American Cheese" where I come from... It's got real names like Cheddar, Mozerella, Brie, etc.

I can't even think of ONE instance where I'd say "American...anything" relating to food...hmmm...So I can't even use the "Canada Sr. thing

Remember being in Florida as a kid, and we went to Pizza hut, and they had Canadian Bacon on the Pizzas, my dad asked about that, and they said, they will only use Canadian Bacon.

Living in the land of the pig and us canucks are longing for bacon.

Hmmm.

Where i come from, 'American Cheddar' refers to the lowest quality, cheapest orange dyed cheddar flavoured cheese you can buy. I must admit, however, that a lot of American sliced bacon is darn good. I could always find it much thicker there. Sliced bacon in Canada is a bit on the thin side. That said, I'd happily eat it up right now in either case, thick or thin. I want BAAAACON...

Whats the difference between Canadian Bacon and German Bacon?
Please i cant believe this post gets so many reviews!

BACON IS BACON PEOPLE!

No offense...but there is a BIG difference between Canadian back bacon (Peameal bacon) and German bacon...

Not the same product

thats like saying american beer and german beer is the same. i am kinda saddened by this lack of culture.

Ah...Peameal bacon is one of the few things us Canadians can take credit for

...that is except for Tim Hortons which is now owned by Wendys (American firm)

Still making me hungry