Canadian bacon
Laurence Horn
laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Fri May 12 20:13:56 UTC 2006
At 3:20 PM -0400 5/12/06, RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:
>In a message dated 5/12/06 2:47:51 PM, zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU writes:
>
>
>>
>> i've never heard this usage of "Canadian bacon". in the u.s. usage i
>> know, "Canadian bacon" refers to back bacon (as canadians and u.k.
>> speakers call it), which is bacon from pigs, but considerably less
>> fatty than the usual american bacon ("streaky rashers"). i *think*
>> canadians use "Canadian bacon" to refer to a type of unsmoked bacon.
>>
>
>maybe i just assumed it was beef because it was so different from regular
>bacon. I have never checked a dictionary, general or specialized, about this.
>
'cured rolled bacon from the loin of a pig', according to the AHD.
No listing in the OED. (I can hear Barry chortling.)
Larry
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