"Apology" to Americans...heheheheh...All Candians read.

[Cirdan]

How about the Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs any Canadian sports team is a bake-off 'cause I like cake.

[gollum9630]

nah, that wouldnt be fun

EDIT: who doesnt like cake, but i want to see a soccer game

[gollum9630]

how about a game between next years grey cup winner and the superbowl winner

[Lady of Rohan]

But the real question is: If you where trying to put together a dressage team, and you had players from The Toronto Maple Leafs, and from the New Jersey Devils to pick from, who would complete the most success round? (I vote leafs )

[gollum9630]

Originally posted by Lady of Rohan
But the real question is: If you where trying to put together a dressage team, and you had players from The Toronto Maple Leafs, and from the New Jersey Devils to pick from, who would complete the most success round? (I vote leafs )

ifs theres one hockey team i hate, its the leafs and there stupid fans then the Wings, Stars, Wild (u know why). My choice NJ, but only the canadains and europeans

[Lady of Rohan]

Oh! And since Gullom is such a great golie , I say that Courtis Joseph takes a few shots on him, while he's in net.

[gollum9630]

Originally posted by Lady of Rohan
Oh! And since Gullom is such a great golie , I say that Courtis Joseph takes a few shots on him, while he's in net.

id stone Cujo, he wouldnt have a chance against me

[Lady of Rohan]

Originally posted by gollum9630
Wild (u know why)

Actually, no I don't know why, and I'm not sure if I want to know........

(And the Leafs are the best (even if they do lose all the time.... )

[Lady of Rohan]

Originally posted by gollum9630
id stone Cujo, he wouldnt have a chance against me

Hehehehe... don't be so sure. I've seen him play (actually, I played against him. His daughter was on my soccer team), and hes amazing.

[gollum9630]

Originally posted by Lady of Rohan
Actually, no I don't know why, and I'm not sure if I want to know........

i hate the Wild because they knocked the Canucls out of the playoffs this year, even if it was because of the Canucks crappy playing in games 5-7

[gollum9630]

Originally posted by Lady of Rohan
Hehehehe... don't be so sure. I've seen him play (actually, I played against him. His daughter was on my soccer team), and hes amazing.

but youve never seen me play, i play against 20 and 30 year olds that live for soccer right now and i do as good as any other goalie. You dont paly with his daughter anymore

[gimli7410]

Originally posted by Sheeana
Hah. Brutus is the reason I'm not a dog person. *Looks fondly at all the scars that mangy bastard gave her* Besides, he wasn't a bandana dog... he was a sunnies dog.

yea rottweillers can be tough. my aunts friend owns two rottweilers(one coincedently named brutus) and it bit him and it was deep. he has scars all oveer from those two fighting

[Lady of Rohan]

Originally posted by gollum9630
but youve never seen me play, i play against 20 and 30 year olds that live for soccer right now and i do as good as any other goalie.

Ok, I was just saying that Cujo was good, 'sall.

You dont paly with his daughter anymore

Don't rub it in.

[Khamûl]

I just thought of another good thing from Canada: Canadian bacon. Mmmmm....

[jerseydevil]

Originally posted by Khamûl
I just thought of another good thing from Canada: Canadian bacon. Mmmmm....

You're NOT supposed to mention anything good about Canada - and we have pigs too.

[gimli7410]

Originally posted by Khamûl
I just thought of another good thing from Canada: Canadian bacon. Mmmmm....

thank you. see these are the americans i liek unlike some others. *cough*JD*cough*

[gimli7410]

Originally posted by Khamûl
I just thought of another good thing from Canada: Canadian bacon. Mmmmm....

thank you. see these are the americans i liek unlike some others. *cough*JD*cough*

EDIT:double post

[Khamûl]

I just found this: Your old pal Canadian bacon probably isn't.

Your old pal Canadian bacon probably isn't

April 2, 2002

BY SYLVIA RECTOR
FREE PRESS COLUMNIST

The other day I found out I'd been frying up a fraud.

What I've always called Canadian bacon isn't Canadian. I wonder whether it's even bacon.

After all, what is bacon, anyway?

Before we grapple with that larger existential issue, however, let's straighten out the misunderstanding about Canadian bacon . . . er, bacons.

The whole subject came up when I got a call from Ken Haviland, owner of the REAL Canadian Bacon Co. -- which inexplicably isn't in Canada but in Troy. His company name uses "real" in capital letters for reasons that will soon become obvious.

Haviland, who was born in Ontario, told me that the round slices of meat I buy in the grocery store for eggs Benedict aren't real Canadian bacon.

Ask a Canadian what Canadian bacon is, Haviland said, and he or she will tell you that it's peameal bacon -- which incidentally is made with cornmeal, not peameal.

Real Canadian bacon, he says, isn't striped like American breakfast bacon, which Canadians also enjoy but simply call bacon. Instead, peameal bacon is cut from a very lean, closely trimmed, pickle-brined piece of muscle that grows along the hog's backbone -- which explains yet a third name for it: back bacon.

Except for the cornmeal-dusted, 1/8-inch-thick layer of fat on one side, peameal bacon is pale pink and very lean; think eye of pork chop and you'll have the idea. The raw slices are about a quarter-inch thick, so it only needs to fry a couple of minutes on each side to be cooked through.

But perhaps the biggest difference between real-Canadian-peameal-back-bacon and not-really-Canadian American-style-Canadian bacon -- are you still with me? -- is the smoking. Or lack of it.

Both kinds are cured, but only the American-made product is smoked, which gives it a flavor and consistency much like ham. The unsmoked Canadian product has a lightly salty flavor but none of the smoky characteristics that Americans associate with bacon, so it ends up looking and tasting more like fresh pork. Even so, it's really quite tasty.

The "peameal" name, by the way, comes from the dried yellow peas that originally were ground into meal and packed around the meat to help preserve it. When corn became more plentiful, processors switched grains but not names, Haviland says.

What isn't clear to me is how everyone got confused about what Canadian bacon really is. Or was. I mean, it appears the Canadians wouldn't even have anything called "Canadian bacon" if we hadn't named it. Or misnamed it.

Haviland says that around the turn of the 19th Century, England had a pork shortage and began importing pork "side bacon" from Canada; the English smoked the meat and called it "Wiltshire sides." And somehow Americans got the idea that bacon from Canada was smoked.

Maybe then we put two and two together -- the lean pieces of peameal pork, and the misunderstanding about smoking -- and got a wrong number: the not-really-Canadian Canadian bacon.

The real deal
So now you know why Haviland named his company the REAL Canadian Bacon Co. And you can guess why he called me.

He's selling "Canadian peameal back bacon" over the Internet, so people all over the United States and the world can buy the real thing and have it shipped, frozen, to their front doors.

Although his company is based in Michigan, the product is made in Canada, imported to the United States and inspected by the USDA, which classifies it as uncooked Canadian bacon.

Haviland sells packages of slices as well as unsliced roasts, which stay tender and juicy after baking because of their brine curing. Be warned: It's not cheap.

His Web site -- http://www.realcanadianbacon.com/ -- has recipes for the slices and roasts, as well as more Canadian bacon history, a nutritional analysis and ordering information. You can telephone orders to 866-222-6601.

And about my earlier question -- What is bacon, anyway? -- I think it must be like beauty . . . largely in the eye of the beholder.

[gimli7410]

i was watching bowling for columbine and one guy of the american militia just said this

it is an american responsibility to own a gun. how are you going to protect your children, if you dont own a gun and your american, then your not responsible

what a moron! how are not responsible if you own a gun. i just think that is the stupidest thing i have ever heard anyone say

[wahine]

1) Cirdan, I agree, what are their dogs wearing?

And, CAKE!!!!

2) Canadian bacon pfffft, I perfer IOWA CHOPS!!!!

3) It's the duty for a man to be the protector, to that I agree. It's just something the men have done for...well...ever. To do so with a gun is only an option, there is always the baseball bat, the faithful plunger *don't laugh, it's been done* and of course, the Putter of doom

And, that is not exactly what he said, you are paraphrasing.

Bowling for Columbine is a propagnadists film, and I would kill the dirty fast bastar--errrr....heh...heh....mmmhmmm....