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Difference between ham and bacon

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Pork is the fresh meat you get from a pig, ham is pork which has been preserved with salt or a salt solution (brine) and then cooked, usually boiled or roasted.

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Bacon IS pork.Pork consists of any meat cut from the flesh of a pig. Bacon is nearly always cut from the belly of a pig and is made by drying, curing, boiling, or smoking long, thin (or sometimes thick) cuts. Many religions believe pork, including bacon, is unfit to eat. One reason behind this is due to the Old Testament listing pigs as "unclean animals".

Leviticus, Chapter 11

1 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

2 "Speak to the Israelites and tell them: Of all land animals these are the ones

you may eat:

3 any animal that has hoofs you may eat, provided it is cloven-footed and chews

the cud.

4 But you shall not eat any of the following that only chew the cud or only have

hoofs: the camel, which indeed chews the cud, but does not have hoofs and is

therefore unclean for you;

5 the rock badger, which indeed chews the cud, but does not have hoofs and is

therefore unclean for you;

6 the hare, which indeed chews the cud, but does not have hoofs and is therefore

unclean for you; and the pig,

7 which does indeed have hoofs and is cloven-footed, but does not chew the cud

and is therefore unclean for you.

8 Their flesh you shall not eat, and their dead bodies you shall not touch; they

are unclean for you.

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14y ago

Bacon is pork belly, very fatty. Ham is the leg of the pig that has been preserved through curing, usually using salt or sugar. Pork is the meat of the pig as it comes off of the pig. Bacon and Ham are subsets of Pork.

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Both bacon and ham are meat from a pig. The difference between the two is where the meat is taken from the pig. Bacon is from the loin, back and belly while ham is from the thigh or rump.

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Ham is from nasty old dried pig . Bacon can be from nasty old dried ham or it can be just turkey .

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13y ago

Bacon is meat from a different part of a pig

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