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Well, if you want to play that game, Cyn, the word "bacon" is from Middle English, but it comes from Old French, and is related to "back": meaning the back of the pig.
So "bacon" can refer to cured meats from the pig back, which is what back bacon is.
Just because Americans have popularized the fattiest cut of the pig back, it doesn't give them exclusive use of the word "bacon."
And of course it's not the same thing. It's not trying to be. That's the point.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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