Your “All-American” breakfast on American Airlines includes Canadian bacon…
Appropriately shared by @FakeOscarMunoz, the parody account of United CEO Oscar Munoz, the menu clearly features this apparent paradox.
https://twitter.com/FakeOscarMunoz/status/1098043493967110144
Now I can already anticipate an AA rebuttal. I picture it in a Napoleon Dynamite-type voice saying something like, “American is not the same as the United States of America! My goodness how American-centric, uhh…USA-centric you are.”
I recognize there are some who believe that it is “unfair, imperialistic, and U.S.-centric it is for U.S. people to steal the terms ‘America’ and ‘American’ to refer specifically to their country and themselves.” I just laugh. John Adams, the second President of the United States, used the term before 1800. And we haven’t stopped since. I mean, are we going to call ourselves United Statesians?
But I’m just having some fun here. I know that the very term “Canadian bacon” is an American USA term for bacon that is cooked, cured, and trimmed into thinly-sliced medallions. In Canada, the term “Canadian bacon” doesn’t even exist…they call it “back bacon” instead.
CONCLUSION
So I guess my point is simply this: to avoid confusion, American Airlines should call it the “All-North American breakfast”. Or maybe it should just skip the artery clogging Canadian bacon altogether and offer some nice American made soy bacon instead. 😉
lol that’s awesome
to add to that point… our country literally has the word America in the name…. it’s our word. And the only people who think otherwise is… sensitive Americans.
Everywhere else in the world, when I say I’m from the US, they say Oh America! and call me American.
It’s strange what people come up with to be irritated about.
Correct, Canadians do not call it Canadian bacon. Similarly, in India they call Indian food just food.
Canadians refer to us as American, as well.
I figured the snapshot poking fun at the Canadian Bacon was just an opportunity to continue on to observe that the mushrooms and tomato are part of a quintessentially English breakfast, and not an American one. Canadian bacon, no matter the origin of that term, is very, very commonly served in the U.S. It’s a key component of breakfasts at both ends of the spectrum: the Egg McMuffin and Eggs Benedict!
That’s a good point! Didn’t even see that I was so amused by the Canadian bacon.
Glad they didn’t include French fries or Belgian waffles….
Canadian bacon is just low quality ham. The only people who call it CB are not Canadians but dishonest cooks.
Canadian bacon as referred to by everyone except Canadians is actually called peameal bacon (or back bacon) by all true Canadians.
Nope, Canadian bacon as sold in the US and peameal/back bacon are not the same thing. ‘Canadian’ bacon is basically ham, and Canadians don’t recognise it as bacon.
Exactly, peameal bacon is much thicker than ‘back bacon’. In addition, back bacon is usually smoked whereas peameal bacon is not.
Actually, the British coined the term “Canadian bacon” for the smoked pork imported from Canada into the U.K. before WWI. American soldiers picked up the term from their British counterparts during the war.
That’s closer to an English fry up than an American breakfast. I don’t know too many American diners that serve tomatoes and mushrooms (presumably grilled) with breakfast…
As others have pointed out, the greater irony is that the description sure sounds a lot like an English breakfast to me…
It’s missing the baked beans with tomato sauce. And sausage. And actual bacon.
So it’s a random collection of stuff from all over, a little bit English but not really, and partially misnamed? In other words, it’s all-American!
Ummmm…Canada is in North AMERICA.
FYI, French Fries are not French….
Canada is not in North America?