If bacon is a cut of meat, say from the back, doesn't a cow have a similar cut of meat on its back?
2006-10-19 02:49:31 · 28 answers · asked by Stuart C 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
You can make bacon out of any type of meat (lol...not sure if there is soy bacon but I'm sure the idiot vegetarians are trying their best). Take a fatty piece of back meat and cure it and smoke it. Or, some of the "diet" bacon you see out there is pressed turkey. Actually, that's real bacon (tastes totally different than commercial bacon). Most stuff in the grocery store has just been treated with nitrates. Some health food stores sell the real stuff (it's black, not red) which is a hell of alot tastier than commercial bacon. The best bacon, of course, is made yourself (some of the hunters make deer bacon). The curing mixture is pretty cheap but the time to make it is rather long.
2006-10-19 02:58:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Bacon is from the belly and sides of a pig. Pigs eat different food than cows. The glands flavor the meat just like carrots taste different from potatoes. Pigs meat the fat is aeperate from the muscle with cows the fat is mixed in. They were made that way to adapt to different feedins situations. Pig fat has a lower melting point than tallow. It tastes different You can eat cow bellies , byt it tastes different. Also bacon is treated with salt, sugar and smoke for flavor
2006-10-19 03:05:45 · answer #2 · answered by jekin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bacon is not the name of a cut of meat, it's a preparation of pork meat that has been thinly sliced. That's why you get back bacon or streaky bacon, they're from different parts of the pig.
2006-10-19 02:59:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Same reason you can't get bananas from an apple tree.
Bacon is not only a type of cut, it is specific to pig meat.
Other "bacons" are just called that because the product is made to resemble bacon. Marketing.
2006-10-19 02:59:18 · answer #4 · answered by sonyack 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bacon is the accepted unique name given to that particular pig meat product.There may be similar products available from other animals,depending on their muscle and skeletal structure,but they also have unique names depending on the source.
2006-10-19 05:56:28 · answer #5 · answered by Devmeister 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon
Bacon is any of certain cuts of meat taken from the sides, back or belly of a pig, cured and possibly smoked.
The defining element is the cut, so "turkey bacon" and "beef bacon" and other non-pork substitutes exist for specialist markets.
2006-10-19 02:51:47 · answer #6 · answered by Bobby B 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
yes, but it wouldn't be bacon, it would be beef back.
Bacon is defined as being pork preserved in a particular way, if you take away the fact that it is pork/pig, it isn't bacon any more.
It's like asking why you can't get granite made of cheese.
2006-10-19 03:59:29 · answer #7 · answered by Theonlygolux 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
surely this is the same as asking why cant you get steak of another animal but a cow, surely they can get the same cut off a pig, but then its called pork isnt it?
2006-10-19 04:13:17 · answer #8 · answered by joelclyne 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
bacon is pig, a similar cut from a cow is a steak ie sirloin,chine,
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2016-02-15 17:38:21 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋