Amazing facts about the origin of popular products. (The final) 7. Canadian bacon Canadian bacon is a ham made from the back muscles of a pig, unlike American bacon, which is usually cooked from meat on ribs with fat. The phrase "Canadian bacon" has even become proverbial in the Western Hemisphere — however, culinary historians claim that Canadians unfairly appropriated the fame of the inventors of lean ham, which first appeared in Britain and Ireland a couple of centuries before the Europeans arrived in Canada. So here, too, the championship turned out to be just a legend. #RandomThoughts
