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Why is it "Canada goose" and "Canada thistle," but
"Canadian bacon" and "Canadian hemlock?"
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Welcome, chulm. I'd say that there's no clear answer to your question. It probably depended on who was doing the naming, and that's that!
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Most often the geese are called just "Canadians". The thistle is a nuisance that gets blamed on Canada, obviously unjustly. In US, bacon was made only from belly meat which wasn't good for anything else. The Canadian bacon made from pork loin is so much nicer it deserves a name giving credit to its originators.
The hemlocks I have never heard mentioned, and have no idea why they were so designated.
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Sorry Bill...Canadians do not have Canadian bacon. It is really weird that it is named that.
Whenever a Canadian goes to the U.S. and sees that on the menu she/he'll think it is bacon in strips - and is extremely disappointed when that round piece of meat is on the plate.
In November I won a crisp 100$ bill because I knew that Canadian bacon was not. (100$ American ... that translates into 155$ Canadian- yahoo!!)
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Dear belMarduk: I assisted at an autopsy on an American major with a dozen bullet holes in his back. I could tell that the ammo had been American. Sotto voce I asked sgt. who brought body in:"What did he do wrong?" Whispered reply: "He took all the Canadian bacon out of the C Rations for himself."
Canadians may not think so, but those American soldiers thought Canadian bacon was worth killing for.
According to both Dave Rons (of the Canadian Ministry of
Agriculture) & Rene Shoop (Owner of Meridian Meats), the
definition of Canadian Bacon contains 4 words: "Whole
Smoked Pork Loin."
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Heck, what would I know - I'm an Aussie. We don't have any of those Canadian things you mentioned. However, tis not my purpose to answer your question, tis only my intent to WELCOME  you aBoard! Glad you're here - I've learnt something already!
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But that's just the thing Bill, for some reason, what we call back-bacon became called Canadian bacon in the States.
Nobody, but nobody, calls it Canadian bacon. It is identified as such so people from the States will know what it is. When Mr. and Mrs. Everybody walks into a butcher shop here, they'll ask for back-bacon.
Plus, I don't know about the other provinces but you don't find back-bacon in the grocery store - not yer big seller. It's just the regular old strip bacon.
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You know what this reminds me of? My parents have a summer cottage on a lake called Lac St Paul. The lake has always worn that name. The residents called it that, the neigboring counties and towns knew it as that yet some government official decided it should be called Lac Moreau. For years all the maps were wrong. They finally fixed it about 10 years ago.
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Dear belMarduk: at least nobody's getting killed over it.
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at least nobody's getting killed over it.
Heh heh, Dr Bill, try telling that to the pig! [oink-e] 
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