What the heck is Canadian Bacon.

[ak1]

OK, as a Canadian, I have to ask.... Why is your smoked pork loin called Canadian Bacon????? 

Us Canadians don't make that stuff.

 We have "Peameal Bacon". A cured/brined pork loin, rolled in ... properly ground yellow peas, or cheaply corn meal.  No smoke.

 

[daveomak]

Us Canadians from the south, had to have something to acknowledge our northern kin... low fat, all meat pig... cured and smoked.... to put on a flat bread with hollandaise sauce... kind of a "kicked up" biscuits and gravy.... that's from our southern kin....

 

[msuiceman]

http://www.realcanadianbacon.com/po...con_isn't_what_most_Americans_think_it_is.htm

someone probably brought the idea or smoked product from england home with them, and called it Canadian bacon, name stuck.