>Quoth Todd Moody <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: I'm new as well
>On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Ryan Hughes wrote:
>> Re: Bacon
>>
>> I, as well as many of us, eat 'uncured' bacon. (no preservatives)
>> It is absolutely delicious!
>> After you eat it for a while, cured bacon tastes bad.
>
>Bacon without chemical additives is still cured.  Uncured bacon
>is an oxymoron, since bacon is by definition cured pork belly.

This is a semantic issue as well as a chemical one.
It used to be a "natural" food maker couldn't make ketchup
without adding sugar, since by FDA mandate ketchup contained
sugar. That changed, probably under lobbying pressure,
because nobody wants their stuff labeled "artificial ketchup".
Same went for mayonnaise. I suspect the same applies to bacon,
tho the gray area seems larger.

Look in the grocer's case and you'll see "Cured with..."
before the impurities listings, this on most bacon packages.
Somebody might contact the FDA to see what constitutes
"cured", but I think there are better things to do.

Nevertheless, bacon sold as "uncured" is different from
"cured", and is arguably paleo regardless of word quibbles.
This caveman sure enjoys it!