• @cosmicrookie
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    5611 months ago

    Real Bacon PSA: bacon slices have different thickness depending on what country you’re in.

    • @xX_fnord_Xx
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      511 months ago

      Yup. UK Bacon is much thicker than US bacon, and Canadian bacon isn’t what most people would consider bacon at all.

      • @cosmicrookie
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        611 months ago

        I live in Denmark and what they call Danish Bacon in the UK, you can’t buy in Denmark because it’s too thick

        • @xX_fnord_Xx
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          11 months ago

          Interesting! I wonder if it is just a finger pointing name, much like syphilis was The Spanish Disease to many, but The Italian/French Disease to others.

      • @[email protected]
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        Also Canadian Bacon isnt “All Bacon Bought in Canada” if you go and just buy “Bacon” while in Canada, you get the bacon you’re expecting, you only get the ‘not bacon’ when you buy “Canadian Bacon”

        • @xX_fnord_Xx
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          211 months ago

          Good to know! I figured Canadian Bacon monicer was an Americanism.

      • @[email protected]
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        211 months ago

        Canadian bacon isn’t what most people would consider bacon at all

        In Canada we call it ham.

    • @supercriticalcheese
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      311 months ago

      You don’t get it unsliced, so that you can ask the supermarket to slice it for you as you like?

      • @cosmicrookie
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        411 months ago

        The expensive supermarket might have a butcher department, but most regular supermarkets only have prepacked and pre-sliced bacon. Maybe millionairs have it freshly sliced, I don’t know. I have heard that some countries you can have your minced meat made freshly too! There is no chance you can have that here. Never seen it anywhere (or maybe I show the wrong paces - think Lidl, ALDI etc)

        • @[email protected]
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          511 months ago

          It’s actually wild the difference in quality of product between different grocery stores (even the same chain) depending on how rich the area they’re in is.

          • @acetanilide
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            311 months ago

            And price And selection

            Even if the stores are blocks apart

        • @supercriticalcheese
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          Okay in Italy most medium and at times small supermarkets have a place where you can get your prosciutto crudo, salame etc…

          Elsewhere in Europe there is frequently a butcher department if the supermarket is big.

          In Greece nearly all supermarkets have a butcher department, except maybe Lidl, where are you going to get your whole lamb for Easter BBQ? :)))