On Thursday, September 11, 2014 11:48:22 AM UTC-4, Janet wrote:
> In article >,
> says...
>
> > seeing that and having recently had a discussion of British bacon
> > (unsmoked) versus American bacon (smoked, a.k.a. British streaky bacon),
> > I thought, "Well, it's not pork belly, but it does have a nice fat
> >
>
> If I could just correct your error re British bacon;
>
> We can buy streaky bacon smoked and unsmoked. We can also buy back
> bacon, smoked and unsmoked. Smoked and unsmoked are equally available
> regardless of cut.
>
> Unsmoked bacon is salt-cured.
>
> http://www.donaldrussell.com/unsmoked-back-bacon.html
>
> Janet UK

Ah, thanks! I'll get it all sorted out one of these days :-)
This was useful too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_bacon

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Silvar Beitel