How did pork belly get the name bacon?

Bacon comes from the pork belly.

Pork belly is simply uncured bacon. It comes from the same cut of meat.

Bacon is a sub-class of pork Pork is any meat from a pig, bacon is the meat from the belly and sides

american bacon is pork belly, canadian bacon is smoked ham

Most commonly pork belly

Pork belly just means the belly section of a pig - you get bacon from the pork belly, and Chinese cooks use pork belly to make sweet and sour pork. On the stock market, pork belly futures are a big commodity because the meat freezes well and can be stored until the market goes up.

Pork belly. Smoked then sliced

ham, but its what most of the world considers bacon, what we call bacon is call pork belly in most places

Komodo dragons do hunt and eat wild pigs. However, bacon is cured pork belly meat, so despite the fact that the Komodo dragon eats the pork belly, the meat is not cured and thus is not considered bacon.

Bacon ribs come from near the belly of the pig where the bacon comes fron pork ribs come from higher up the rib cage.

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.

Bacon does not come from a turkey. Bacon comes from the Diaphram of a pig. Actually pork bacon come from the belly or side of the pig. I'm not sure exactly where turkey bacon is on the turkey, but bacon is just a certain kind of muscle on an animal. Knowing that I would assume that on a turkey it could more than likely be in a similar location as on a pig. I am not completely sure though. Real Answer: Turkey Bacon comes from the thigh of the turkey. Because of the leaness of the meat it is chopped or ground up and formed into strips to look like pork bacon. Pork bacon comes from the pig belly. They usually cut the meat and fat from the pork belly. The left over skin if deep fried is then pork rinds.

A "pork belly" is the side meat behind the ribs on a pig. They make bacon out of it.

there's a great wikipedia entry on pork belly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_belly it's usually braised, or salt-cured and smoked for bacon.

beef bacon is pork and beef mixed(mainly pork) pork bacon is pork and bacon but they are VRY VERY VERY simalar

Pork bellies are not bacon but they can be made into bacon. Pork shoulders are also made into bacon.

Pork belly is a boneless cut of fatty meat[1] from the belly of a pig. Pork belly is popular in Asian cuisine, and forms a part of many traditional European dishes such as the Alsatian Choucroute garnie, the Swiss Berner Platte, and the German Schlachtplatte. In the United States, bacon is most often made from pork bellies.

As the name suggests, the part of the pig that pork belly comes from is the stomach. For best results, pork belly should be grilled or barbecued.

It's the belly,it's usually salted or smoked Bacon is prepared from several different cuts of meat. It is usually made from side and back cuts of pork, except in the United States, where it is almost always prepared from pork belly (typically referred to as "streaky", "fatty", or "American style" outside of the US). The side cut has more meat and less fat than the belly. Bacon may be prepared from either of two distinct back cuts: fatback, which is almost pure fat, and pork loin, which is very lean. Bacon-cured pork loin is known as back bacon.

If you mean Bacon, it is pork.

Bacon is made from the alternating layers of fat and muscle from the abdomen of the pig, which is called a pork belly or pork side. Because of this, you can't remove bacon from a pig until after it has been slaughtered and dressed (internal organs removed).

Pork belly is the same part of the pig as bacon, although it is neither smoked nor cured. It's high fat content makes it extremely rich and savory.

Pork is the meat from Pigs, bacon is produced from pork.

Yes, bacon is made out of pork.

no one, its been around for thousands of years across the globe, its just curred pork belly