Why Spain, the Country With the World’s Best Ham, Makes Such Terrible Bacon

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[Clutch Martin]

About the only part of a pig I like is the tenderloin. Roast pork tenderloin with white gravy that’s good.

Bacon is too salty for me and I just always had the feeling even when I was young that it was laden with chemicals and it didn’t appeal to me, it still doesn’t, but I like Jimmy Dean hot and spicey turkey sausage.

[Clutch Martin]

“Manatee bacon... mmmm...”

I will never look at a Manatee the same way ever again...

[tnlibertarian]

Could be worse: Could be Canadian.

Speaking of which, do you know how to keep Canadian bacon from curling in the skillet?

Take away their little brooms.

[moovova]

That’s a great series.

[moovova]

Have they tried making spam?

Spanish Spam?

Spam Español?

[skr]

Lol

[Trailerpark Badass]

My good friend married a Spanish girl, and I went to the wedding in Madrid. At the rehearsal dinner, her parents had 3 whole Serrano hams, each with a desginated slicer on duty. I swear, I ate half of one by myself, so good!

[Yollopoliuhqui]

Could be worse: Could be Canadian.

Speaking of which, do you know how to keep Canadian bacon from curling in the skillet?

Take away their little brooms.

You’ll soon be receiving a bill for my new keyboard

[Paal Gulli]

The term buccaneer was taken from the Spanish bucanero and derives from the Caribbean Arawak word buccan, a wooden frame on which Tainos and Caribs slowly roasted or smoked meat, commonly manatee.

Caribs also smoked and slow-roasted Tainos.

[BozoTexino]

The best ever. Smells like you’re smoking a brisket in your kitchen. https://shop.bentonscountryham.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=hscb

[gnarledmaw]

along with “too thick” and wanting to eat cysts (chorizo)

[pax_et_bonum]

[dangus]

That’s ridiculous. A buccaneer was the price for earrings.

Seriously: same root word as bacon (”boucain,” meaning a sort of cooking or curing rack)

[cpdiii]

English bacon is the best. It is real bacon and not the pale substitute we have in the USA.

For breakfast in Spain we would choose from a fine variety of smoked hams, cheeses etc. It was delicious. I did not ever see what we call bacon.

[mylife]

We make damn fine bacon here.

[SJackson]

Kinda. From boucan, over fire. But lots of beef cattle, wild, and smoked for preservation. And the “boucaneers” were pros, provisions was their game. Money to be made by supplying pirates and others, and a bit safer too.

[SJackson]

You might note my post 36 Spanish bucanero, other sources would say the Spanish word is barbacoa. Buccan? Or the French, boucane? The BBQers being boucaniers. Others as you alluded, boucan, the wooden bbq grill, like a Webber. One of the interesting things about early history in our hemisphere is that many interpritations come from limited sources, quoted over the centuries. I don't know if that's the case here, Arawak, French, Spanish, but it wouldn't surprise me. And it all comes out pretty much the same. Other than the manatee part. Pigs, cattle for bbq is a different thing. Though I've no doubt manatee could be preserved by smoking as well.

[alexander_busek]

Though I've no doubt manatee could be preserved by smoking as well.

But they have a tendency to catch fire.

"Oh, the huge manatee!"

Regards,

[alexander_busek]

We found out the hard way that we couldn’t bring the jamon we bought in Spain back home, had to eat it on the plane.

Did you at least try to do what Lucy and Ethel did, and hide it in the musical instruments of Ricky's band?

Regards,