Bacon or Rashers???

dave1982

Bacon and cabbage

Sausage and rashers

Wetai

Rashers.
But I'd call the ones that are more like strips bacon, and the cut-like ones I'd call rashers.

Ickle Magoo

Rashers

rashers of bacon, shortened to bacon...never heard them called anything else until moving here and now I can't say rashers without puting on an exaggerated culchie accent ' raaaaaaashers'. :pac:

suzzi

hungry now....might have a sausage sambo with a bit of the other stuff on it!!!...yum,yum.......

The Internet Explorer

Rashers

COME ON LADS ! !

starbelgrade

Rashers only started to be called bacon when the "BLT" arrived in the country.

If you go into a deli & ask for a bacon sammmich, they'll know what you want, but if you go into a butchers and ask for bacon, they won't presume that you mean rashers & will ask you what cut of bacon you're after.

Nerdkiller1991

Makin' bacon!

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Rashers

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kupus

bacon strips = american
Rashers = Ireland
bacon = said by people born in Ireland during the nineties (probably)

but saying that she fed him on potatoes
And a soup she made with nettles
And a lot of hairy bacon that she boiled in a kettle...nom nom nom

Run_to_da_hills

Bacon is the red pig stuff you boil with cabbage and potatoes, Rashers are those thin strips of pig that you fry with eggs and sausages.

Overheal

bicardi19 wrote: »

I personally call it Bacon.

Sorry, but no.

Bacon is Bacon.

Rashers are Rashers.

Now, Rashers by their divine grace have a little piece of bacon on them, but they are not themselves bacon. It's like calling a Ferrari a Tyre.

GavRedKing

Rashers FTW.

pickarooney

Sad story
My Ma brought over some rashers a few weeks back. There were enough to gorge on and to freeze for later. My son turned off the freezer so everything melted and I was forced to try and eat all the delicious rashers before the went off. I had to leave some for the next day. I woke up late. My rashers are dying a slow, salty death now and I'm hungry.

Sooopie

OMG would totes love a rasher sambo now - on thick white toasted bread, lashings of butter, grilled tomato & ketchup

Liam Byrne

Francis Rashers wasn't a particularly good poet.

And me, Bottler, Razor, Bacon, Whacker, Hatchet & Pockets all agree that once you fry/grill it, it's no longer called bacon.

kingtut

Both exist. A rasher is a slice of bacon :cool:

/end thread

shewhodoesnot

What exactly is the difference? My ex prefers to say bacon, but I personally don't care, as long as it tastes nice! :P








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DominoDub

Always laugh when I see this advert --- watch out for the Dirty way your one says "RAAAAASHERS that taste great":p

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5OuSNOs3Ek

orourkeda

Bashers

Sunnyisland

Its rashers in this house ;-)

AeoNGriM

bicardi19 wrote: »

I personally call it Bacon.

I always thought rashers were a specific cut of bacon. Anyone got any insight into the inner workings of swine terminology and can shed some light?

kingtut

AeoNGriM wrote: »

I always thought rashers were a specific cut of bacon. Anyone got any insight into the inner workings of swine terminology and can shed some light?

As per my post further up this page that is correct. A rasher is a slice of bacon. So whilst it technically is bacon the name of what you eat is a 'rasher'.

kingtut wrote: »

Both exist. A rasher is a slice of bacon

/end thread

Daniel S

Anyone who is Irish and calls it "bacon" should be shot.

And not in a Jeremy Clarkson way. Actually shot.

Bacon is like a thick version of a rasher.

recyclebin

Bacon and cabbage
Rashers and sausages

Bacon is boiled
Rashers are grilled or fryed

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I call it rasher for back bacon but I call it Bacon Strips from streaky bacon, damn you epic meal time.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Is there a difference?

usernamegoes

Rashers

Rasher is a unit of quantity of bacon. Unless you say I'll have a tin on toast instead of beans on toast, I don't know why you'd use bacon and rasher interchangeably

duiggers

Rashers all the way baby!

drquirky

Robdude wrote: »

All I know is there is a huge difference between the bacon I used to buy in the US and the rashers I buy here

Honestly- why do you even bother living here?

barneygumble99

is bacon not the collective term for some parts of pig meat , others being ham , mutton etc. its rashers all the way with me , big thick ones with ketchup mmmmmmmmmmmm