American bacon is what we would call streaky bacon -- very thin strips of pork belly, and always smoked. British bacon is back bacon, taken from the back of the pig, and unsmoked. It's cut thicker, and in rashers rather than thin strips.
US bacon looks like and has a different texture and flavour to British bacon.
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Date: 2018-01-27 03:20 pm (UTC)US bacon looks like