peameal
In Canadian usage, peameal is shorthand for peameal bacon — a wet-cured, unsmoked back bacon historically rolled in ground yellow peas (now more commonly cornmeal).
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In Canadian usage, peameal is shorthand for peameal bacon — a wet-cured, unsmoked back bacon historically rolled in ground yellow peas (now more commonly cornmeal). It is a distinctly Canadian, particularly Ontarian, product. A Toronto specialty, the peameal bacon sandwich served on a kaiser bun is considered a local icon. The term also survives in the older, rarer sense of ground peas used as fodder or meal.
He ordered a peameal sandwich from the St. Lawrence Market stall and ate it standing up.
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(Canada) peameal bacon.
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(rare) peasemeal.
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