{"id":1036,"date":"2008-01-24T09:27:31","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T14:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/24\/canadian-bacon\/"},"modified":"2008-01-24T09:27:31","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T14:27:31","slug":"canadian-bacon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/24\/canadian-bacon\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Bacon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A brief rant:  why the heck did Canada get saddled with being the worldwide source of peameal bacon for the Americans?  Who decided it would be called &#8220;Canadian bacon&#8221; forever?  It&#8217;s not called that anywhere else in the world.  In fact, I would take a guess and say that most Canadians would probably just prefer regular old bacon to peameal bacon for breakfast.  If we were peameal gobbling gluttons I could understand the label, but that&#8217;s just not the case.  Do we refer to burgers from McDonalds as American Big Macs?  Of course we don&#8217;t, because that would be silly.<\/p>\n<p>Now cut that out, Yanks.  Don&#8217;t get me all riled up like that.  With this Canadian bacon-induced blood pressure of mine, I&#8217;m liable to pop any second now, it&#8217;s not healthy to be all excitable and agimatated.  Yes I said agimatated, I make up words when I&#8217;m frothustered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brief rant: why the heck did Canada get saddled with being the worldwide source of peameal bacon for the Americans? Who decided it would be called &#8220;Canadian bacon&#8221; forever? It&#8217;s not called that anywhere else in the world. In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/24\/canadian-bacon\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-stupidity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-gI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}