Daniel_

Simple Rule (in England):

A rasher of mostly meat with a fatty edge = Bacon

A strip of half meat half fat = Streaky Bacon

American Bacon is (in my own experience) cut so thin as to be almost flavourless and cured less than I like.

As the concept is from middle English (as pointed out above), surely the ORIGINAL idea of bacon must be the English one. The NEW idea of bacon (that it should be flavourless fatty pap cut so thin as to be usable as tracing paper) has as much traction in this country as NEW COKE in yours.

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