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Jan 27th 2009 | 4:34 am

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G77

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Re: British food in Canada

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Dead but complete.

Deep fried pigs trotters for supper then! Waste not want not eh?

Jan 27th 2009 | 4:36 am

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Re: British food in Canada

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It's more than that, the curing's different somehow and back bacon just isn't available. It seems though that making bacon (literally making bacon) is simple enough so I've ordered a pig and will give it a go.

Something I would also like to try. Good luck.
Will you blog your progress on this?

Jan 27th 2009 | 4:44 am

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Re: British food in Canada

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Deep fried pigs trotters for supper then! Waste not want not eh?

We already buy all manner of trotters and tales and offally bits for the dog so I thought we'd probably use the whole thing, why not give it a go?

Jan 27th 2009 | 4:45 am

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Something I would also like to try. Good luck.
Will you blog your progress on this?

I expect so. Especially if it's a complete disaster!

Jan 27th 2009 | 4:47 am

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Re: British food in Canada

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Originally Posted by dbd33

...back bacon just isn't available.

Where on earth do you shop?

Back bacon is readily available virtually everywhere.

Perhaps you have a different definition of back bacon than the rest of us.

Jan 27th 2009 | 4:48 am

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Re: British food in Canada

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Where on earth do you shop?

Back bacon is readily available virtually everywhere.

Perhaps you have a different definition of back bacon than the rest of us.

Bacon like what my Mum gets from Sainsburys, that's what I want. I can't find it and I think I'm a pretty resourceful seeker out of food items.

Jan 27th 2009 | 4:50 am

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Re: British food in Canada

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Where on earth do you shop?

Back bacon is readily available virtually everywhere.

Perhaps you have a different definition of back bacon than the rest of us.

I think the UK definition of back bacon is different to the Canadian....

UK back bacon to me is bacon that has a streaky portion attached to the round bit - for want of a better explanation....

All of the back bacon I've seen here is purely the round part....

Jan 27th 2009 | 4:50 am

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Re: British food in Canada

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Where on earth do you shop?

Back bacon is readily available virtually everywhere.

Perhaps you have a different definition of back bacon than the rest of us.

Youve been here too long steve!

Not

Jan 27th 2009 | 4:52 am

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Re: British food in Canada

UK/Irish back bacon :-

Canadian back bacon :-

EDIT: Dammit Iain, you're too fast!!!

Jan 27th 2009 | 4:53 am

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Re: British food in Canada

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Originally Posted by dbd33

Bacon like what my Mum gets from Sainsburys, that's what I want. I can't find it and I think I'm a pretty resourceful seeker out of food items.

It will probably be more salty than that which you would buy from sainsburys.
(I think)

Jan 27th 2009 | 4:57 am

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Re: British food in Canada

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We already buy all manner of trotters and tales and offally bits for the dog so I thought we'd probably use the whole thing, why not give it a go?

Holy crap why give all the good stuff to the dogs,,,pigs tail slowly boiled with saurerkraut and boiled spuds and musterd mmmmmm yummy

trotters the same.. Cook the whole haed for braun or head cheese as its called here.

Jan 27th 2009 | 5:00 am

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Re: British food in Canada

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It will probably be more salty than that which you would buy from sainsburys.
(I think)

We're nervous about that but it's not as if pork bellies are a premium cut, if it doesn't work the result can go into the chickens.

Jan 27th 2009 | 5:00 am

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Re: British food in Canada

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UK/Irish back bacon :-

http://www.foodsubs.com/Photos/irishbacon.jpg

Canadian back bacon :-

http://www.foodsubs.com/Photos/canadianbacon.jpg

EDIT: Dammit Iain, you're too fast!!!

The botttom pic i would call gammon ?????

Jan 27th 2009 | 5:01 am

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Re: British food in Canada

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Youve been here too long steve!

Both are back bacon.

One has some of the streaky bacon left on the other not, and they may be cured differently.

So in a sense we are both wrong.

From wikipedia "In Britain, bacon made from the meat on the back of the pig is referred to as back bacon or back rashers. It usually includes a streaky bit and a lean ovoid bit, and is part of traditional full breakfast commonly eaten in Britain and Ireland. In the United States, back bacon is called Canadian-style bacon or Canadian bacon, but this term refers usually to the lean ovoid portion."