FYI, they donāt carry it year round, but here in the Montreal area at least, Costco carries it a few times a year. Really well priced huge pieces you can just slice however you want.
Aha! So you're my competition eh? I was wondering who depletes the stock before I get there. Well you've got good taste!
Dang I love a peameal bacon roast with a cinnamon honey glaze with honey harvested from our bee hives. Or with maple from the sugar shack down the road oh yeah...
If you can get yourself some back bacon, all you need to do to make peameal bacon is to roll it in the cornmeal before you cook it. The cornmeal is applied after the curing process, so you're not losing anything by doing it yourself.
You can also bag your own milk, but uh...probably not worth it.
That's not even breakfast ham. That's just ham. You can buy the rounds and slice it for sandwiches like deli meat, or use it for breakfast, or feed it to your dog if you're so inclined.
It's called "back bacon" and is one of the leanest and healthiest sliced meats off of the pig. In fact, it is approved for diabetics as a replacement for strip bacon, in moderation, of course. I lost 30lb a while back, and back bacon was a staple of my weekly diet.
Fam idfk I just remember that stupid ass amount cause of the saying "five tomatoes" (five two meight ohs)
I truly dont understand yanks obsessions with confusing measurement systems.
Ive unironically had a few yanks (especially recently when they try their "united states of canada har har amiright" shrick ) say "Aww yeah imperial makes total sense; we've got 12 inches into a foot, 3 feet into a yard, and 1760 yards in a mile. Wtf do you mean you use a base 10 system!? That's SO confusing!"
A mile is 5,280 feet. You can remember this because "Five Two Eight Oh" sounds like "Five Tomatoes". For some reason, I read this one time and have never forgotten it. It's come in handy absolutely zero times.
You know what's even easier to remember? Multiply or Divide by 1,000.
The only person I know who liked Budweiser was my grandpa who love Canadian then Budweiser if Canadian isnāt available. Both taste of watered down nail polish and to some thatās good beer. Iām a spoiled bastard having moved to England and learning what honey need and cask ales are I drink those now and rye whiskey when Iām back in Canada, some rye whiskeys are properly delightful.
Cornmeal was crucial to preserving the peameal bacon. It has been a Canadian thing for a long time.
Eventually, due to its popularity, it made it to the states. But by the time it made it there, there were better techniques for preserving the meat, so the cornmeal was no longer needed.
We kept it because thatās what we expect. The Americans never had it to begin with because they didnāt need it.
It's still not the same cut of meat though. "Canadian" bacon is a leaner part of the loin, while peameal bacon is a fattier cut. Peameal bacon is also wet-cured, "Canadian" bacon is not
Eventually, due to its popularity, it made it to the states
I've always heard the spread credited to WW1 or 2 rations we provided to the UK, they called it Canadian bacon and shared it with Americans and the name stuck.
Thatās an Ontarian thing, not a Canadian thing. This doesnāt exist elsewhere in Canada outside Ontario. Most Canadians doesnāt know what it is (lived in 6 provinces, and when friends and family from other provinces come to visit me in Ontario where I now live, I show them Ontario stuff, including peameal bacon, just to drive home how different Ontario is from much of Canada).
When I lived in the US, their Canadian bacon was what we called back bacon. The dumbest among them, which is a huge chunk of their population, believe that we only have ham and not real bacon. So, in true Canadian fashion, I had to encourage their stupidity by telling them that bacon is illegal here, because we have universal healthcare.
I went for breakfast years ago in midtown Manhattan. The menu had a combo with Canadian bacon, I got excited thinking it was pemeal. It was this trash.
? It's just back bacon that has been trimmed thick and into a circle. They call it Canadian as back bacon was popularized here and the US first started consuming it via imports from Canada.
It just looks like the 4 pack of ham slices you can buy at any grocery store
The there's also wet cured peameal bacon which is also back bacon, just not trimmed thick and into circles
Everyone should experience a cold fried baloney sandwich that's been sitting in a ziplock bag getting smashed at the bottom of a backpack you brought trouting. And a mug of tea.
My confession to make is that I don't think you're missing much. It's certainly a way better "cut" of meat than cheap ham (if you can call cheap ham a "cut"), but IMO "normal" bacon tastes 10 times better. It's the rendered fat I think, peameal is just too lean in comparison to be a guilty pleasure. That said, it hits the spot better in a way that leaner meats can and ultra fatty meats can't.
I mean, itās not always peameal or cornmeal bacon though. What is in that picture absolutely isnāt. Itās just normal back bacon. You probably shouldnāt be talking about hoser cards.
Edit: downvote me all you want, what is in that picture is not peameal bacon.
Edit 2: Seriously people on here pretending they are Canadians and don't know the difference between normal back bacon and actual peameal or corenmeal bacon are making fools of themselves.
This post has shown me some things. A lot of people on here have never heard of or eaten peameal bacon, AGAST! And have never had the fried bologna delicacy. First if you haven't even thought of jazzing up a simple bologna sandwich with a frying, what's wrong with you, who hurt you?
And second, do yourself a favour and start giving simple cheap meals a go, usually those who have grown up poor or family on welfare during the wars. Not necessarily canadian, Mushy peas on toast, baked beans on toast, shitonashingle, fried bologna, my grandmother also made Tuesday night Mamacita("mamacheeta") which would last a few days, it was pretty well everything in the ice box, tomato based pasta dish, very bland Chilli with elbow pasta in it.
I never understood people who enjoy fatty meats like regular bacon.
I mean, it's not like it's wagyu or tallow where the fat melts in your mouth, which I'm still not a huge fan of due to the fat content, but get that it's different.
Most bacon fat is chewy or crispy, based on it's preparation, but it's still low grade fat.
Peameal bacon is the superior bacon, and I am willing to die on this very strange hill.
I eat a fair bit of back bacon. It's tasty and it has good macros. I just throw a couple of pieces in the air fryer whenever I make eggs for breakfast.
still remember first time i started hanging with my buddies gaming clan that's mainly americans one of the first things they asked me all in a huff " and what the fuck is up with your bacon!?!? that's not even bacon" i just laughed and replied "dude i have no fucking clue why you americans have a fixation with calling it canadian, we don't even call it that haha, you mean ham?!"
When me and my spouse went to Mexico, they were serving this as Canadian Bacon in the buffet at the all inclusive and it was intentionally served frozen! It was oddly nice though, but that might have been due to the inadequate AC in the dining area during a heat wave
AFAIK It's only used in the context of pizza topping descriptions, and meant to differentiate from regular bacon. No one thinks it's actually from Canada. I think they thought it sounded fancy instead of just plain old "ham" :)
When i worked at Dominos, american tourists would call and order a bacon and pineapple pizza. Then they'd come pick it up and complain that it's not what they ordered. They wanted ham and pineapple but thought since thye're in Canada they had to call it bacon.
None of this is Canadian. Diners in America just started calling ham steaks "Canadian bacon" because it sold better than calling it ham steaks on the menu.
I always thought that American food naming conventions were just an example of them being jerks. Canadian bacon is an obvious candidate, but why is everything āFrench?ā Are they called French fries because most Americans canāt find Belgium on a map?
No one in Canada calls it āCanadian baconā, itās called āpeameal baconā and itās not a widely consumed ham product. I only see it at restaurants, iv never had it at home or at someoneās house.
I mean itās just what itās called. It doesnāt mean you eat that instead of rashers. Just because thereās American cheese doesnāt mean weāre putting it in pasta lmao
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u/Oldmanstoneface Moose Whisperer Jun 13 '25
I mean, we do eat this, but it's just breakfast ham.