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Recipe calls for "unsmoked streaky bacon"
Donald Martinich wrote:
> In article
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> "Greg" > wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> I'm in Sydney, Australia. Help.
>>
>> Greg.
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> streaky = pork belly in the USA
> bacon = cured pork in the UK- Can be the whole carcass.
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> To me, this translates as unsmoked, cured pork belly or, in the USA,
> salt pork.
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> D.M.
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Yes. And in the United States I see it in Asian stores.
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Jean B.
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