It's not. Basically, bacon, like ham, is a style of smoking a pig. Typically, however, the only part of the pig that is bacon-smoked that we regularly eat is the fatty side area that is normal bacon. Canadian bacon (a total misnomer as we Canadians eat less of it than Americans do) is a different, less fatty part of the pig from a particular cut of meat (I don't know which one) on the back. In addition to side bacon and back bacon, I've also had a bacon chop -- the pork chop cut of the pig. Bacon chop is way better than back bacon. As a Canadian, I'm embarassed that one of the lamest types of smoked meat in the world is named after us; we eat side bacon for breakfast just like anyone else sane.Frukathka said:Just what the heck is canadian bacon? My dad tells me it is hot dog meat, but I have my doubts.