Talk:Bacon History/@comment-203.166.254.231-20131120145503

I have been doing a lot of research on pirates, which brought me to buccaneers.

Early Spanish explorers would release livestock(usually pigs, sometime cattle) on small islands they came accross.

This livestock would flourish, providng fertile hunting grounds and a source of fresh meat for the journey home and to future sailors who passed by.

French sailors in the Caribbean had learned from the indigenous people of the area, a method of smoking meat(usually that of large sea mammals) on a rack the natives called a buccan.

These frenhcmen took this new skill, setting up camps on various islands where they would hunt

the wild pigs of the Spanish, smoke it using the buccan and sell the smoked meat to passing sailors. From this use of the buccan, these French hunters became known by the french term boucaniers, and then later the English changed it back to buccaneer. I've been trying to find out if there is any connection between the word bacon and buccan, it's seems very logical but i can't find any solid references between the two. The buccaneers meat tended to be more like jerky than bacon.