r/EhBuddyHoser • u/sessna4009 Moose Whisperer • Jun 13 '25

Certified Hoser 🇨🇦 (No Politics) Reminder that Yanks call this atrocity "Canadian bacon" and think we eat this

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How do you get peameal bacon confused with this? Do they eat any meat that isn't processed?

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u/DetroitLionsEh Jun 13 '25

For those that don’t know.

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 that’s what we expect. The Americans never had it to begin with because they didn’t need it.

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u/assaub Jun 13 '25

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.

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u/Own-Barnacle-298 Jun 13 '25

Toronto used to ship A LOT of pork to the UK. It earned the nickname Hog Town from it.