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Let\u2019s face it, Toronto is amazing for a lot of reasons. But like most Canadians, Torontonians struggle to tell tourists about things that are uniquely Torontonian. We usually skim over it by saying something like \u2018We\u2019re really multi-cultural.\u201d Leaving the tourist thinking about what they\u2019re going to post on their Instagram now that there is nothing #Torontonian in particular to go with. But, there are things that are uniquely Torontonian and peameal bacon is the king of them all.<\/p>\n

In case you haven\u2019t tried it and are ashamed to admit, you haven\u2019t truly lived, peameal bacon (also known as cornmeal bacon) is a type of back bacon made from lean boneless pork loin, trimmed fine, wet cured, and rolled in cornmeal. It was originally developed by a Toronto ham and bacon curer, William Davies.<\/p>\n

William Davies Company was a pork processing and packing company in Toronto. By the early 1900s, it was the largest pork packer in the British Empire and it operated Canada’s first major chain of food stores. One of Toronto’s longstanding nicknames, “Hogtown”, is attributable to the millions of pigs processed annually by the William Davies Company.<\/p>\n

William Davies couldn\u2019t have had better timing. By the Victorian era, bacon was considered a necessity and demand for the Canadian export was high. In The Oxford Companion to Food, Alan Davies writes that bacon enlivened otherwise \u201cstodgy\u201d British cooking. British Food writer Colin Spencer is more generous, writing, \u201cIf the British are known for any culinary achievement it is the great British breakfast\u2026even in the nineteenth century, bacon for breakfast would become almost de rigueur, even for the lower classes.\u201d Canadian cured pork continued to be an important food product in Britain well into the Second World War, when the Bacon Agreement stipulated that the U.K. would accept no less than 5.6 million pounds of Canadian ham and bacon each week.<\/p>\n

Changing dietary attitudes and demographics mean that Canadian pork isn\u2019t as popular with Britons \u2014 or Canadians \u2014 as it once was. Still, Davies\u2019 legacy lives on. His company would eventually become today\u2019s Maple Leaf Foods, which still produces peameal bacon for national consumption.<\/p>\n

And today, you can find delicious peameal bacon in our restaurant, served on various dishes such as the Oh Canada Eggs Benedict, Best Peameal \u2018N Eggs and BOOM P-BLT.<\/p>\n

So if you\u2019re in the mood for some Toronto magic, come try some peameal bacon creations at BOOM Breakfast, the best breakfast restaurant for all things bacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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