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Originally Posted by TheDoctor
Ok so what makes bacon, bacon? I thought it couldn't be bacon unless it came from a pig.
Or is it the cut of the meat not the animal that makes it bacon?
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Bacon is salt cured pork. It's background is an old German word - bacho.
All the others are salt cured meat. The reason for bacon was to cure the fat which was a high energy source during long winters.