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Real Bacon PSA: bacon slices have different thickness depending on what country you're in.
Yup. UK Bacon is much thicker than US bacon, and Canadian bacon isn't what most people would consider bacon at all.
I live in Denmark and what they call Danish Bacon in the UK, you can't buy in Denmark because it's too thick
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.
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"
Good to know! I figured Canadian Bacon monicer was an Americanism.
In Canada we call it ham.
You don't get it unsliced, so that you can ask the supermarket to slice it for you as you like?
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)
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.
And price And selection
Even if the stores are blocks apart
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? :)))
How thick do you like them?