Eatin' High on the Hog

Cover of Canadian Bacon

What the heck is Canadian bacon?


I've wondered about it for years.

Americans talk about our bacon as if it drops on

the tundra like frozen manna.

I finally asked Travis Erwin of  Bacon, Beer & Books. 

He's from Texas and posted a pretty funny blog about

Canadian food yesterday which you can read here.

This is how he described Canadian bacon to me:

What is called Canadian Bacon here is not like our regular

bacon:

It's sort of like ham and some pizza places just substitute

ham but what I call real Canadian bacon is different.

It has the look of ham but is thin sliced or shredded and is

best when crispy on the edges with just enough saltiness to

bring out the fine pork flavor.
 

The light dawned. 


I think.

But what say you, my fellow Canuckians?

Are we talking something exotic, delicious and totally

unavailable in Canada or are we talking ...

 

Oh YUCKERS ...

 

humble peameal bacon??

 

Holy Crap

I don't eat mammal sandwiches, mammal lasagne, mammal burgers or mammal anything anymore if I can do so politely and I'm someplace where there is a food option.

I do eat poultry, probably because chickens are so mean and I eat fish because ... well,  I guess they just aren't cuddly enough. 

I tried the complete vegetarian thing but when my fingernails started peeling away I knew for me, it wasn't going to be an option.

However my foray into the world of vegetables did leave me with an amazing respect for people who can do it.  Especially the vegans.

I stand in awe of the Vegans.

Therefore I was quite happy to see Holy Crap on the top shelf of my local grocery store.

I know that I am probably the last person in the world to try

"The world's most amazing breakfast cereal"

 which is vegan and is

"made in paradise

on the Sunshine Coast, British Columbia, Canada".

(Apparently, in B.C., they are only allowed 10 French words for every 200 English words on their cereal boxes because the only French I could find was "la plus incroyable cereale petit dejeuner du monde"."

Holy Crap is made of hemp hearts and all kinds of organic stuff - except wheat.  It is wheat free.

It looks very different from my usual Quaker Oats.  I guess the little roundish things are the hemp hearts. 

And I agree with you completely. How many hemps had to die so that I could try a vegan cereal?

But then there is so little of it in your bowl - you only eat 2 tablespoons of Holy Crap at a time, so one has to assume there are still vast herds of hemps grazing across the B.C. interior at this very moment.

So how did it taste?

Holy Crap!

You should try it.