LT wrote:

>
> Probably a silly question, but why is pork shoulder called Boston
> Butt? I doubt they eat more in Boston than other parts of the
> country, and it's comes from no where close to the butt of the pig.


My own guess years ago (they don't label them that way here anymore)
was that it was some sort of joke saying that people in Boston didn't
know one end of the pig from the other. I've seen lots of other
explanations though, so that doesn't seem to be correct.




Brian