inside, despite the fact that it actually came from the
shoulder of the hog. To this day, the term is widely
used. Depending on what part of the country you
come from, you’ll see pork shoulders labeled
shoulder, butt, Boston butt, or blade roast, while the
lower part of the front is sold as picnic shoulder.
Ironically, you’ll never see pork shoulder labeled
“Boston butt” in Boston itself. Had our forebears
deigned to ship pork in 10-gallon barrels, we might
have found ourselves spooning slow-cooked pulled
Boston firkin into our BBQ sandwiches, or perhaps
making our Italian sausages out of Boston puncheon,
from 84-gallon barrels. Or, if those shoulders were
shipped to New Mexico in 18-gallon barrels, they’d
be chowing down on chile verde made with Boston
rundlet.
So then the question is, what do they call the
anatomical butt of the pig? That’d be the ham.
nandana
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