Ha ha, “A whole pig!” While I certainly agree (I have eight pieces in the oven right now :)), I want to know what you call one unit of bacon. Where you’re from might be interesting, too.
A single piece of bacon is a slice, or a strip. A rasher is a SERVING of bacon, consisting of several slices.
Unless, of course, you are someone like my husband with a voracious bacon appetite. Then a serving would be an entire side of bacon, fried up crisply.
~VOW
Probably strip or rasher. All of those are possibilities, though; I’m not sure I have a clear favourite.
“Side of bacon” sounds right to me. And a piece of bacon is a strip or a slice.
Rasher is rarely heard on this side of the pond. Slice, slices, serving.
Anyone else use a Zik-Zak Electric Bacon Straightener? It lets you be rasher with your rasher.
The smallest unit of bacon is a strip. A serving of bacon is properly referred to as ‘all of it’.
ETA: A ‘bacon straightener’? Please tell me you’re making that up, or that it’s something less stupid than I think.
Of course, they don’t have proper bacon in America anyway.
Slice. Or possibly strip. I have never heard “rasher” outside of UK usage.
I am not making it up. I saw an ad for it with a very well-known spokesman.
“Unsmoked bacon”? Um… I’ll just let that stand on its own.
Usually a piece of bacon, tho I have used slice & strip before too.
No, the primary definition of rasher is "a thin slice of bacon".
Cook your strips, slices, and/or rashers in the oven and they will always come out straight.
Why is straight bacon desirable? I don’t mind the curls. In fact, I kind of like them
What do you call an individual unit of bacon?
“Not enough.”
edit: In my brain I answered “strip” but when I thought about conversations in my real life I usually say “piece.” I’m in Florida.
Hmm… I’ll admit to being unsure, but this was not my understanding when I posted the poll. Prior to a few years ago (I’m 39), I thought a “rasher” was the whole package from the store, generally a pound. I’ve been corrected several times since then, and now I wonder if I was corrected incorrectly.
Edit : I see that I was corrected correctly:
Rasher: Australia
Straight bacon strips, like straight lines, are pre-pre-preferred by s-some.
Does not compute. The wrinkles/curls are part of what defines it as bacon. Otherwise it’s just thin pork.
Strip.
And my reaction to the poll was “Hey, so that’s what a rasher is!” I’d never come across the term except in fiction set in Britain. Those little British/American linguistic differences leave me wondering what the heck people are eating over there sometimes.