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"Greg" > wrote:

> Hi,
> I've just received an electronic slow cooker, and the very first recipe I've
> chosen calls for some "unsmoked streaky bacon". The butcher said that all
> bacon is smoked, and that the recipe author must be clueless.
> Also, streaky bacon is very low grade, and he said he only stocks good
> quality bacon.
>
> I'm in Sydney, Australia. Help.
>
> Greg.

streaky = pork belly in the USA
bacon = cured pork in the UK- Can be the whole carcass.

To me, this translates as unsmoked, cured pork belly or, in the USA,
salt pork.

D.M.

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