Boston butt - wikipedia Boston butt American cuts of pork. Boston butt is derived from the blade shoulder ( colored dark green in the diagram ) Pork shoulder with bone and rind Boston butt or pork butt is the American name for a cut of pork that comes from the upper part of the shoulder from the front leg and may contain the blade bone. Boston butt is the most common cut used for pulled pork, a staple of barbecue in the southern United States. When smoked and cured, the cut is sometimes called a picnic ham, as the resulting meat closely resembles a ham taken from the hind leg. In Louisiana cuisine, cured, smoked, and spiced pork shoulder is called tasso ham. In the United Kingdom, Boston butt is known as pork shoulder on the bone, since regular pork shoulder normally has the bone removed and then rolled and tied back into a joint. History of the name and cut Grilled moksal In pre-revolutionary New England and into the American Revolutionary War, New England butchers tended to take less prized cuts of pork like hams and shoulders and pack them into barrels for storage and transport, known as a butt. This particular shoulder cut became known around the country as a Boston specialty, and hence it became the `` Boston butt ''. In the UK it is known as `` pork hand and spring '', or simply `` pork hand '', or, as noted above, `` pork shoulder on the bone ''. In Latin American Spanish the cut is known as paleta de puerco, and is the main ingredient in the Mexican dish carnitas and in the Caribbean dishes lechon asado and pernil. In Mexican Spanish, this cut is also known as the espaldilla ( literally `` little back '' ). In Argentina, this cut is incredibly popular and is known as bondiola. In Korea, the cut is known as moksal ( 목살 ; literally `` neck meat '' ). References Jump up ^ `` Cuts : Shoulder ''. TheOtherWhiteMeat.com. National Pork Board. Retrieved 16 October 2009. Jump up ^ Ethan Trex ( July 30, 2009 ). `` How 9 Cuts of Meat Got their names ''. Mental Floss. Jump up ^ Lourdes Castro ( 10 November 2009 ). Eat, Drink, Think in Spanish : A Food Lover 's English - Spanish / Spanish - English Dictionary. Random House Digital, Inc. p. 259. ISBN 978 - 1 - 58008 - 954 - 8. Retrieved 28 October 2012. Jump up ^ `` Carnitas ''. Archived 2011 - 09 - 27 at the Wayback Machine. Food Resource, Oregon State University. Accessed October 2012. Jump up ^ Zweiban, Randy. `` Mojo Marinated Pork Cubano ( Lechon Asado ) Recipe ''. Chowhound. Retrieved 2016 - 12 - 08. Jump up ^ John Giuffo ( December 26, 2013 ). `` Pernil, The Puerto Rican Christmas Pork Poast, Is Your New Holiday Favorite ''. Forbes. Retrieved December 25, 2014. Pigs Kingdom Animalia Phylum Chordata Class Mammalia Order Artiodactyla Suborder Suina Family Suidae Subfamily Suinae Genus Sus Domestic Breeding Shows Farming Intensive farming Sty Pannage Toilet Hog oiler Gestation crate Cross-fostering Swineherd As food Bacon Ham Lard Pork Scalder Slaughter Suckling Blood Religious restrictions Scottish pork taboo Cuts Back bacon Boston butt Fatback Ham hock Pig 's trotters Pork belly Pork chop Pork jowl Loin Tenderloin Ribs Spare ribs Pork rind Pork steak Ear Tail Other uses Bladder Racing War Wrestling Truffling Wild and Feral Wild boar Heraldry Hunting In the Philippines Razorback Pigs in culture Iron Age pig Flitch of bacon custom Miss Piggy Pigs in Space Porky Pig Piglet `` The Three Little Pigs '' Animal Farm Old Major Napoleon Snowball Squealer Babe Babe : Pig in the City Bad Piggies My Brother the Pig Charlotte 's Web The Sheep - Pig Peppa Pig Super Pig Fair, then Partly Piggy Jakers ! The Adventures of Piggley Winks Olivia ( character TV series ) Pink Floyd pigs Pinky and Perky Preston Pig Rasher Porco Rosso Spider - Ham Spider pig The Tale of Little Pig Robinson The Tale of Pigling Bland `` This Little Piggy '' Toot & Puddle Huxley Pig Wibbly Pig Zhu Bajie Other List of pigs List of fictional pigs Piganino Pigasus ( politics ) `` When pigs fly '' Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Boston_butt&oldid=853491451 '' Categories : Cuts of pork Hidden categories : Webarchive template wayback links Articles containing Korean - language text Talk About Wikipedia Deutsch 한국어 Suomi Svenska 粵語 中文 Edit links This page was last edited on 5 August 2018, at 04 : 41 ( UTC ). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution - ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia ® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization. About Wikipedia

Question: why is it called a boston butt roast
Answer: known around the country as a Boston specialty, and hence it became the "Boston butt"