@graf@skylar@qwerty Canadian bacon, aka back bacon, is a portion near the pork loin. However, traditionally, ham is a leg cut that is preserved by curing or smoking. In a processed form, ham becomes generalized into a block of pork meat from various parts of the pig.
@graf@skylar@qwerty A leg cut and a back cut are not the same. Back bacon was only renamed here to Canadian bacon because of imports of the cut from Toronto to America.
@graf@skylar@qwerty Processed ham is every part of the pig that is meat-based and crammed together.
When it is not processed meat sludge, the actual butcher cut called a ham is the leg of the pig. Whereas the back is known as the loin.
So, by the process of butchering, what became known in America as Canadian Bacon is a part of the loin section of a pig.
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