Is this Correct ?

[bunky]

I'm new here and want to make sure I'm right,

A pork shoulder is also a butt ???

And there is Beef Brisket as Well as Pork Brisket?

What is a packer ???

 

[fatback joe]

The butt is the top portion of a shoulder with the lower portion often called the picnic portion...........the whole thing is generally referred to as a whole shoulder in the bbq community.

The brisket is basically the chest muscle of the animal..........I don't recall seeing a pork brisket sold...........but yeah, you could have that cut off of any animal I guess..........horse brisket, dog brisket.............anyhow, beef brisket is the most common around where I am anyhow.

Packer or packer cut (atleast my understanding) is the full brisket with the flat and point (or deckle) still attached. Flats (or atleast parts of them) are what you see in those little corn beef package thingys. A packer is the whole ball of wax and will be larger than the flat.

Hope that helped.

 

[bbq bubba]

Good explaination Joe!!

 

[vlap]

How are those dog briskits Joe?

 

[fatback joe]

Mostly depends on what you have been feeding the dog.

 

[vlap]

HA! hehehehe

 

[Dutch]

Tried some dog meat once (shudder) and found it to be a little "ruff" going down!

 

[pigcicles]

hahaha that's funny... kinda have a little bit of a bite Dutch?

 

[fatback joe]

And it always has a great "bark"

 

[Dutch]

Well, short story made long-I was the NCOIC of a security detail that was guarding an isolation camp for the snake eaters –er- I mean the Special Forces guys- They had 4 or 5 newbs that were getting ready to head out for some Survival training. One of their Instructors brought in a couple of dogs and said "Here's dinner" and proceeded to dispatch the mutts and cook 'em right there. Since my guys were attached to the SF unit for the duration of the training, we ate what they ate and a lot of guys went hungry that night. The comment that the Instructor made was "Folks will find eating dog meat objectionable; but I find starving to death is highly objectionable!"

 

[shellbellc]

Wish my story were at least that admirable...I was in Korea, after throwing a "few" back we went to get something to eat, they had bulgogi (cow) and cowgogi(sp?) I got confused as to which was beef and wound up ordering the dog...half way through realized it and everything came back up! Not from the taste, but from the thought of it...