And a warning from a fellow Brit: prepare yourself for the fact that at some point during our long and divided history, the Americans somehow lost track of bacon. You can't get any lovingly cooked lean back bacon at all (anywhere!), just crisply frazzled thin strips of streaky mostly-fat. Oh alright, I guess I can cope with it as it's all they seem to understand and you have to humour them as it's their loss, but it's not bacon!
(now, where's my wooden spoon gone?)
But they certainly make up for the lack of bacon with pancakes... and more especially funnel cakes!
Andre
Its funny, because if you CAN find it in the US, its often Called Canadian Bacon ...
Despite being a Canadian, I actually prefer the strips, although lean strips, most of the stuff you get is, as you say, mostly fat
