Canadian bacon is much leaner than bacon or pancetta. In Canada, "peameal bacon" is Canadian bacon that was originally rolled in a coating of ground-up dried yellow peas to help preserve it.

So back to Canada because the confusion about the name likely comes from a meat they call “peameal bacon.” It is from the same cut of pork, but isn’t smoked and the curing is done with a ...

But there is a real Canadian bacon; it's called peameal, and is a cured pork loin rolled in cornmeal, which you slice up and fry and boy, is it good! No one is going to mistake it for ham.

Some of the most common ones include back bacon and peameal bacon. Why peameal bacon, you ask? Well, according to Kitchen Project, the name came to be because "manufacturers would dry and grind ...

Oh, Canada. Home to hockey, flannel/denim combinations, and peameal bacon, also known as Canadian bacon. Widely considered the most Canadian thing you can eat, peameal is cured and salted pork ...

Thin rounds of peameal bacon are sauteed then cut in strips and served on top. • Why it's hot? Paul's family ran chip trucks in Canada, selling made-to-order fries on the streets. The Poutine ...

We probably chose to ignore peameal bacon after it was used as one of the props on Great White North by those hoseheads Bob and Doug McKenzie. The thing about those characters is that as parodies ...

Confused? So was I when I went to Toronto a few weeks ago and visited the wonderful St. Lawrence Market, where all the butchers were selling something called peameal bacon. It appeared to be lean, raw ...