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9 hours ago, heidih said:

 

 My favorite piece of meat is pork butt.. On the Weber off to the side of the fire. Lots of garlic and herbs.Yes strange name - urban legend perhaps : 

Some suggest that 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, which comes from the Latin word "Buttis" meaning cask or barrel.

https://forums.egullet.org/topic/138482-eg-foodblog-heidih-2011-a-slice-of-life-in-the-south-bay-of-los-a/?do=findComment&comment=1812468

 

Amusing, but highly unlikely, given that the word existed in English at least 200 years before America was colonised. It is much more likely to come from a word of unknown origin, but which exists in many northern European languages and meant "the thickest part". Yes, this is also where we get 'butt' or 'buttock' which has been in use since the 13th century.

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c 1450 Bk. Cookery in Holkham Coll. (1882) 58 Tak Buttes of pork and smyt them to peces. 1486 Bk. St. Albans A v, The marow of hogges that is in the bone of the butte of porke.

1601 Holland Pliny I. 344 A Lion likewise hath but very little [marrow], to wit, in some few bones of his thighes & buts behind.

9 hours ago, heidih said:

 

 My favorite piece of meat is pork butt.. On the Weber off to the side of the fire. Lots of garlic and herbs.Yes strange name - urban legend perhaps : 

Some suggest that 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, which comes from the Latin word "Buttis" meaning cask or barrel.

https://forums.egullet.org/topic/138482-eg-foodblog-heidih-2011-a-slice-of-life-in-the-south-bay-of-los-a/?do=findComment&comment=1812468

 

Amusing, but highly unlikely, given that the word existed in English at least 200 years before America was colonised. It is much more likely to come from a word of unknown origin, but which exists in many northern European languages and meant "the thickest part". Yes, this is also where we get 'butt' or 'buttock' which has been in use since the 13th century.

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c 1450 Bk. Cookery in Holkham Coll. (1882) 58 Tak Buttes of pork and smyt them to peces. 1486 Bk. St. Albans A v, The marow of hogges that is in the bone of the butte of porke.

1601 Holland Pliny I. 344 A Lion likewise hath but very little [marrow], to wit, in some few bones of his thighes & buts behind.

9 hours ago, heidih said:

 

 My favorite piece of meat is pork butt.. On the Weber off to the side of the fire. Lots of garlic and herbs.Yes strange name - urban legend perhaps : 

Some suggest that 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, which comes from the Latin word "Buttis" meaning cask or barrel.

https://forums.egullet.org/topic/138482-eg-foodblog-heidih-2011-a-slice-of-life-in-the-south-bay-of-los-a/?do=findComment&comment=1812468

 

Amusing, but highly unlikely, given that the word existed in English at least 200 years before America was colonised. It is much more likely to come from a word of unknown origin, but which exists in many northern European languages and meant "the thickest part". Yes, this is also where we get 'butt' or 'buttock' which has been in use since the 13th century.

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c 1450 Bk. Cookery in Holkham Coll. (1882) 58 Tak Buttes of pork and smyt them to peces. 1486 Bk. St. Albans A v, The marow of hogges that is in the bone of the butte of porke.

1601 Holland Pliny I. 344 A Lion likewise hath but very little [marrow], to wit, in some few bones of his thighes & buts behind.

9 hours ago, heidih said:

 

 My favorite piece of meat is pork butt.. On the Weber off to the side of the fire. Lots of garlic and herbs.Yes strange name - urban legend perhaps : 

Some suggest that 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, which comes from the Latin word "Buttis" meaning cask or barrel.

https://forums.egullet.org/topic/138482-eg-foodblog-heidih-2011-a-slice-of-life-in-the-south-bay-of-los-a/?do=findComment&comment=1812468

 

Amusing, but highly unlikely, given that the word existed in English at least 200 years before America was colonised. It is much more likely to come from a word of unknown origin, but which exists in many northern European languages and meant "the thickest part". Yes, this is also where we get 'butt' or 'buttock' which has been in use since the 13th century.

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c 1450 Bk. Cookery in Holkham Coll. (1882) 58 Tak Buttes of pork and smyt them to peces. 1486 Bk. St. Albans A v, The marow of hogges that is in the bone of the butte of porke.

1601 Holland Pliny I. 344 A Lion likewise hath but very little [marrow], to wit, in some few bones of his thighes & buts behind.

5 hours ago, heidih said:

 

 My favorite piece of meat is pork butt.. On the Weber off to the side of the fire. Lots of garlic and herbs.Yes strange name - urban legend perhaps : 

Some suggest that 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, which comes from the Latin word "Buttis" meaning cask or barrel.

https://forums.egullet.org/topic/138482-eg-foodblog-heidih-2011-a-slice-of-life-in-the-south-bay-of-los-a/?do=findComment&comment=1812468

 

Amusing, but highly unlikely, given that the word existed in English long before America was colonised. It is much more likely to come from a word of unknown origin, but which exists in many northern European languages and meant "the thickest part". Yes, this is also where we get 'butt' or 'buttock' which has been in use since in 13th century.

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c 1450 Bk. Cookery in Holkham Coll. (1882) 58 Tak Buttes of pork and smyt them to peces. 1486 Bk. St. Albans A v, The marow of hogges that is in the bone of the butte of porke.

1601 Holland Pliny I. 344 A Lion likewise hath but very little [marrow], to wit, in some few bones of his thighes & buts behind.