(From Granny's First Barbeque)

On Sat, 23 May 2009 13:15:20 -0400, "Felice" >
wrote:

>Well, I've had bits and piece of it before, but nothing like last night's
>spread. Senior Daughter's husband came back from a food raid on Blue Ribbon
>BBQ in Newtonville (MA) with:
>
>spare ribs
>pulled pork

I was just about to post this when I read your menu. This has to be a
regional term that has slowly spread, and I'm not certain just what it
means - other than pork pulled from the bone.

I'm fairly broad-minded, and if we would have known of the term,
"pulled pork" when I was a kid, I'd remember it. It would have
certainly joined the array of descriptive phrases of the junior high
school boys' locker room.

I don' t even recall the term when I lived in the south. Seems as
though it surfaced about twenty-five years ago somewhere, spread and
is now quite common.
--
mad

Mack A. Damia > wrote in
:

> I don' t even recall the term when I lived in the south. Seems as
> though it surfaced about twenty-five years ago somewhere, spread and
> is now quite common.

It was never called that in NC - it was just barbeque.

The term comes from the practice of cooking an entire hog in a pit. When it
was done, the diners would just pull off the part they wanted.

I think it became popular to seperate our Southern practice of pork BBQ
from the more Western beef style BBQ.

Mack A. Damia wrote:
> (From Granny's First Barbeque)
>
> On Sat, 23 May 2009 13:15:20 -0400, "Felice" >
> wrote:
>
>> Well, I've had bits and piece of it before, but nothing like last night's
>> spread. Senior Daughter's husband came back from a food raid on Blue Ribbon
>> BBQ in Newtonville (MA) with:
>>
>> spare ribs
>> pulled pork
>
> I was just about to post this when I read your menu. This has to be a
> regional term that has slowly spread, and I'm not certain just what it
> means - other than pork pulled from the bone.
>


"Pulled" is a synonym for shredded.

gloria p

On Sat, 23 May 2009 13:59:18 -0600, Gloria P >
wrote:

>Mack A. Damia wrote:
>> (From Granny's First Barbeque)
>>
>> On Sat, 23 May 2009 13:15:20 -0400, "Felice" >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Well, I've had bits and piece of it before, but nothing like last night's
>>> spread. Senior Daughter's husband came back from a food raid on Blue Ribbon
>>> BBQ in Newtonville (MA) with:
>>>
>>> spare ribs
>>> pulled pork
>>
>> I was just about to post this when I read your menu. This has to be a
>> regional term that has slowly spread, and I'm not certain just what it
>> means - other than pork pulled from the bone.
>>
>
>
>"Pulled" is a synonym for shredded.
>
>gloria p

Thanks! That's the answer!

".....pulled fowl: fowl baked, and then skinned and boned, and the
flesh cut up and put into a rich white sauce."

c, 1386 Chaucer Prol.177 He yaf nat of that text a pulled hen.
OED 2nd Edition

Substitute barbeque sauce for white sauce and a pig for a hen, and
there you have it.
--
mad

Mack A. Damia wrote:

> I was just about to post this when I read your menu. This has to be a
> regional term that has slowly spread, and I'm not certain just what it
> means - other than pork pulled from the bone.

It's a synonym for Barbecue. It's really shredded pork, but when you are
making it from the cooked hunk of pork, you pull it off with two forks.

I have a bunch of it in my freezer. It's very yummy.

--
Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.