CBC "exploding pizza" logo rendered in fried baloney

Here is the infamous "exploding pizza" logo for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation rendered in what looks like fried baloney or possibly ham (AccordionGuy thinks it's bacon, but I differ). No idea whence it came, but hell, it deserves a home here.

(Thanks, Fipi Lele!)

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kevinsky

Back Bacon, what the Americans like to call Canadian Bacon, is never this perfectly round. It’s also not pale pink. It’s often got cornmeal on it. Do a Google image search if you want to see what Back Bacon looks like.

Balogna, which some like to call American Bacon, has a uniform colour, because it’s processed. You guys might as well claim it; you call processed cheese “American Cheese” so why not run with the theme?

The perfectly round, pale pink, non-uniform coloured pork product pictured here is ham.
duckyvoodoo

What makes this logo “infamous”?
Calton

So this would be the logo of the CBC: the Canadian Bacon Corporation?

Well, somebody had to say it.
mellowknees

Looks like back bacon to me!
James

Canadian. Bacon.
princessalex

Well, whatever it is that is sold in the US as “Canadian Bacon” is indeed this pink, and this round. And, it tastes decidedly different from just ham. Therefore, this is Canadian Bacon — to Americans, anyway. ;-)
JohnP

And here’s the logo rendered in perogie from by my colleague Dave Shumka:

http://radio3.cbc.ca/#/profile/Dave-Shumka
Anonymous

Maple Leaf Canadian Back Bacon:

http://www.mapleleaf.com/en/market/butcher/bacon-and-hot-dogs/bacon/back-bacon/maple-leaf-canadian-back-bacon
Anonymous

Canadian here. This is ham. Bacon you buy in stores here is thin, long, rectangular strips which is mostly streaky fat. Much like American bacon, oddly enough.

Anybody who insists on using the term ‘Canadian bacon’ pretty much ID’s themselves as non-Canadian, IMO.

Also, I was interested to hear it called the “exploding pizza.” I’d always known it as the exploding pineapple (as, apparently, did this guy: http://probablydontlikeyou.wordpress.com/2010/06/11/my-starring-role-on-the-cbc/)
jordawesome

To avoid confusion / contention, the product shown above should be referred to as “Porcine Meat Disc, Cured”
Prospero761

As someone originally from New Jersey, it looks like good old Trenton Pork Roll.
Anonymous

I believe the design is replicated from a UK crop circle.
Anonymous

I am guessing this pic was created by an American, using what Americans call “Canadian Bacon” (which is not Canadians actually eat as bacon) in an ironic sense… since it’s the Canadian broadcast logo in Canadian Bacon (as if this needed explanation).
hdon

That’s bacon.
- Ugly Canuck
  
  Pure, weapons-grade, 100% balonium.
freshacconci

Not too sure why it’s “infamous”. The old CBC logo is a beautiful example of modernist corporate identity.

As for what this stuff is: I guess to Americans, it could be Canadian bacon. However, back bacon up here is not round and is more red than pink. Sometimes it has peameal (corn meal) around it. However, to make things more confusing, peameal bacon is something different altogether. Go to the St. Lawrence Market in Toronto and get a peameal bacon sandwich, it’s sublime.

This looks like cheap supermarket sliced ham to me.
Anonymous

Maple syrup nerds debating back bacon and the cbc logo to the Nth degree. Happy holidays you hosers!
- knoxblox
  
  Mmmmmm. Bacon dipped in maple syrup! My favorite!
  
  I think if I ever wind up on Death Row, that’s going to be my final meal.
JohnP

Yeah, I don’t really know what the stuff is. I bought it because it fit in the pan, and would probably taste okay when cooked. (I’m the guy who made, shot, and ate this cbc logo)

But I can confirm that it is definitely some sort of bacon product. I’d intended to use baloney, but baloney came in larger circles that wouldn’t fit in the pan.

As for “Canadian bacon”… no clue what that is, whether it’s this stuff, or the peameal bacon.
- Anonymous
  
  looks like capocollo (sp?) to me
Anonymous

Looks Pork Roll, aka Taylor Ham. It’s mainly a NJ thing.
Anonymous

If that’s Baloney, I believe the correct term would be Newfoundland Steak.
Bevin

My mom’s family always called that “round steak.” They were poor and that was their jokey way of making dinner sound more appealing! :)
Anonymous

Canadian Bacon Cooking = CBC. It’s a pun!
Brooke vs. Godzilla

Duh, it’s the Canadian Bacon Corporation, not the Crappy Bologna Coalition.
rtresco

That’s definitely the American rendition of Canadian bacon. But this thread has taught me that Canadian bacon is different in Canada…interesting.
Anonymous

It’s not an exploding pizza but a Poppy flower. A symbol used by British, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealanders to commemorate individuals who have died at war.
Scruff

Only in America can I get Canadian Bacon on my English Muffin. Might even be able to get French Fries with it.

And @prof_jellis, Thank you for the best laugh of the morning :)
theminx

For all you supposed Canadians who say that back bacon doesn’t come in round, I can tell you I bought a pack of Schneider’s back bacon (in Vancouver) just last night and they are all round and just the right size for an English muffin.

http://www.schneiders.ca/images/products/30228_sm.jpg

For Christmas morning Eggs Benedict!
kevinsky

Huh. All these years I’ve thought that “Canadian Bacon” was just the American Name for Back Bacon, but it turns out that it’s the American name for some kind of round, pink pork product that looks like ham but is really some kind of bacon.

What do you call Back Bacon then?

I’ve also always been under the impression that “Canadian Refrigerator” is an American term for a snowbank outside the door that you chill beer and wine in. Is this mistaken too? (We just call it The Snowbank)
HarveyBoing

Ditto those who point out that back bacon can be round.

Fact is, while real food is never so regularly shaped, in today’s world of industrial food production, you can get all sorts of traditional “food” items in regular geometric shapes (most often round). For some reason, this seems to apply most often to pork products such as back bacon and hams.

So maybe this back bacon didn’t come straight from the pig, but that doesn’t mean it’s not back bacon (i.e. “Canadian bacon” for us unwashed Americansâ€¦all of my Canadian friends have schooled me on the nomenclature :) ).
dragonfrog

Schneiders may be willing to tell you what they’re selling is back bacon – I cannot speak for them. However, this is what proper back bacon, as sold by a self-respecting butcher, looks like:

http://www.donaldrussell.com/PUBLIC/PICTURES/PRODUCTS/ADDITIONAL/LARGE/pork_back_bacon.jpg
- mellowknees
  
  That looks freaking delicious, and not at all like what “back bacon” I’ve seen in the states looks like. Clearly, we’ve got some companies stateside that are not talking to actual Canadians before putting words on their packages. :)
mellowknees

I just want to go on record as saying that I have a Canadian friend who told me that “Canadian Bacon”, as we call it in the states, was called “Pizza Ham” in Canada. So, recently, I bought pizza for all of us one night. She asked what kind and I told her I got one with “pineapple and pizza ham”. To which she said “What the hell is pizza ham?”.

So, based on my personal experience with what Canadians tell Americans what they call certain things, I can’t say for sure what this would be called other than a) delicious, b) probably pork, and c) did I mention delicious?
Sekino

I kinda like this logo, but it’s because of childhood memories of Radio Canada being the only French channel we could reliably watch in bad weather on our old, crappy TV. It feels familiar and cozy that way.

I had absolutely no idea the logo was ‘infamous’ and referred to as the ‘exploding pizza’… I’m even happier to learn that it isn’t, in fact, pizza but exploding Canadian bacon. Makes way more sense.
Anonymous

Guys, I can’t believe you. It’s Canadian Bacon. Get it?
Anonymous

That appears to just be ham, not bacon or balogna. Come on Cory, you’re Canadian. You should know this.
Anonymous

I’m pretty sure that’s “Canadian bacon”, also known as back bacon.
Maneki Nico

Shurely that’s Canadian (peameal, back) baconâ€¦
Bahumat

That’s definitely gotta be peameal back bacon. :D

I love this picture so much.
Anonymous

Not to sound erm, anal, but it’s more commonly known as the ‘exploding asshole’. Yes, really.
traalfaz

Definitely back bacon (aka Canadian bacon)
JohnP

@Sekino

Technically the exploding pizza CBC logo is this one, which was the previous, and much more awesome logo, which was discontinued in the early 90′s.

http://ow.ly/3tOZq

What may really bake your noodle though is how this video of the effect of resonance on rice, which appears to form the original cbc logo around the 2:00 mark.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkox6niJ1Wc
Sveden

Too much texture to be baloney.
Roger Strong

“Canadian Bacon” is an American term for what Canadians call “ham”.
jamesb

It’s not peameal back bacon, its just ham. Back bacon isn’t round, not here in Canada anyway.
knoxblox

Waiter! Two hard-boiled cubic eggs and a side of round bacon, please!
Anonymous

@jamesb it’s round here in Atlantic Canada! Seeing the pic made me laugh for that reason – nothing more canadian than the cbc logo in back bacon.
Anonymous

Canadian bacon or back bacon is not ham, it’s cured pork loin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_bacon

Tastiest logo ever!
Anonymous

It’s obviously from a round pig, whatever you might decide to call it.
MattB

It’s Hockey Night on BoingBoing.
The Archaeologist

Filename says bacon. My instincts say ham.
prof_jellis

It’s RENDERED!!! harharhar
Tarpo

No way is that Balogna. Frying ham/Canadian Bacon maybe.
Anonymous

Sure, I’ve seen round back bacon. This isn’t that, though. What we have in this deliciously rendered icon is more likely some prepared ham from the supermarket — hence the perfect roundness; back bacon is more oblong.

Back bacon is bacon from the back of the animal — from the tenderloin, so I’ve heard tell. It also has that lovely yellow action around the sides (peameal or cornmeal), which normal bacon does not.

But wait — is this a subliminal message that working for the CBC means you’re fat and high on the hog; is this a threat to national funding? Is this the beginning of the next prorouging of Parliament? It is, after all, that time of year again.
uricacid

TAYLOR HAM
Anonymous

If McDonald’s calls it Canadian bacon, that’s good enough for me.

http://mcd.to/dSY2m9
foobar

This is exactly the sort of wonderful thing I come to BoingBoing for.
oohShiny

It’s not bacon. It’s what Americans THINK is what Canadians call bacon. It’s sold in the US as “Canadian Bacon” — which is not Canadian Bacon, but it’s what they call it. It’s more like slices of processed cylindrical ham. For those who don’t know, Canadian bacon is actually more like peameal bacon, or a very small, thin gammon steak. It’s otherwise known as back bacon.
Anonymous

that’s pork roll