"Danny Wilde" <fuzakenbo@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Ryan Ginstrom" <ginstrom@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > That's
> > why I was so pleasantly surprised when I moved to Okinawa. Here, in just
> > about any supermarket you can buy actual, hand-cured bacon, either by
the
> > side or pre-sliced and sold hakari-uri. And the taste is fantastic -- 
like
> > what Americans used to eat in the 50s or earlier. Piggy bliss.
>
> That sounds good. I wonder why this only happens in Okinawa.

While I'm not a pork historian, I would imagine it's because Okinawa's
culture developed largely independently of Japan's for many centuries, until
the 1800s when it was annexed by the Satsuma clan; then during the 25-year
American occupation, the Okinawans developed a taste for such things as
bacon, spam and root beer.

-- 
Regards,
Ryan Ginstrom
ryang@gol.com