On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:24:57 -0500, Sqwertz >
wrote:

>On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:37:44 +0200, ChattyCathy wrote:
>
>> Funny, whenever somebody mentions bacon I always think pork. But your
>> lamb bacon looks wonderful. Hope it tasted as good as it looks?
>
>Everybody in the U.S. considers bacon to be pork, which it is by all
>definition. It's the belly of the pig in any form (cooked, smoked,
>raw). It's the back/loin of the pig in some other countries.
>
>"lamb bacon" is really an oxymoron. But there's nothing else to
>call it. Everybody would know exactly what it is without ever
>having heard the term before. Unlike those awful posers like "beef
>bacon" and "turkey bacon", which are not bacon at all (Beef bacon is
>usually brisket, and turkey bacon is just... so completely wrong).

I'd never heard of beef bacon until a few weeks ago. There's an
upscale restaurant in the burbs here called Vie that has a wood fire
grilled burger with beef bacon. It looked pretty good on the TV but
for 13 bucks I'd have to pass.

Lou