> 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.
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> Brian

The link BOB posted seems logical. My wife thought it was the geographic
depiction of where the cut comes from on the pig.
Looking at the situate of the pig, it somewhat resembling the outline of the
US, and that cut comes from about where Boston is. I thought see was nuts.

LT