I'm Glad I Didn't Think of This Until After Breakfast

According to someone's online Twitter post (so no idea if it's accurate), "A bill was proposed in 1910 to release hippos into the Louisiana bayous as a way to clear out invasive river plants and solve a critical meat shortage. It was backed by former President Roosevelt & The New York Times, which praised hippo meat as tasting like 'lake cow bacon.'"

Which begs the obvious question:  If lake cow bacon is made of lake cows, what is Canadian bacon made of?