bacon

hi if you are from the uk (or you can help) what is the calories for bacon - basically maybe for a rasher or so

tia

I found this in the database under bacon - gammon rasher

you think it's what you're looking for?

thats great thanks!!!

hiya

well two grilled pieces of bacon from tesco are 120 cals

so 60 cals a piece perhaps. depends on size of rasher of course!

OK I only speak american, to me a gammon is when you beat someone soundly in backgammon and a rasher is someone with a bad itch, waht is a gammon rasher

Despite the impression given, not all Americans are stupid, and most don't demolish the Queen's English every time they open their mouths.

Gammon--as in "gammon and spinach".

And, more obviously: rasher of bacon, rasher of gammon--need more of a clue?

Slight difference in the cut, perhaps in the ratio of fat, but immaterial...

...and no excuse for waving our tattered and blood-stained flag in denigrating the tantalizing variations of our common language, and implicitly the residents of its origin.

Take it easy, I was referring to the fact that my language base was american, hence the vocabulary would be different.  Would someone from a non-food profession in England know what a chitterling was? 

I am earnestly curious about what a gammon and a rasher are!

As for my definitions before, a gammon is a term in backgammon which I play regularly, and in my job as a pediatrician, if I have a kid with chicken pox, I have used the phrase, "there's a rasher in room 8" (room 8 is our isolation room)

A rasher is a strip of bacon. A gammon rasher is bacon made from the top of the hind legs according to this site

http://www.answers.com/topic/bacon?cat=health

I was raised in an observant Jewish household so my knowledge of bacon is scanty. This is just from a bit of googling. I am working on a very boring work task, this is fine distraction.

Mark42968 - I get the language thing....

I have lived overseas for 6 years...and it has been a lesson in language for sure. In fact, it took me quite a long time to figure out that American style bacon was "streaky bacon". Prior to that, I would ask for bacon and get something more like what I would have called "Canadian bacon".

Also, even 6 years on, I still skip up and ask for a "Sausage Biscuit" at Maccas (McDonald's)....basically, that means I have just asked for a cookie with a sausage on top...gross. :-)

We, both myself and my host country friends, often have great laughs at the commonality and differences in our languages...with no insult to either side.