• @[email protected]
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    -224 months ago

    I’m sure there’s a conspiracy among butchers to convince us that pork belly is good

    It’s a shitty cut that’s only fit for dog food 🤢

    • Unimperfect
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      124 months ago

      What is being used in the video is pork jowl, known as guanciale in Italian (basically cured pork cheek) . It has a high fat content, even compared to pork belly. Fat is flavor, so no convincing from butchers is required. Also, it’s a cheap cut, so if they want to make money off their customers, they’ll want to also sell things like Secreto ibérico, or better yet, jamón ibérico de bellota.

    • @Stupidmanager
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      14 months ago

      Is Italian not traditionally food that poor people ate? They often made due with what was available.

      And thats Guanciale, or pork cheek. Not pork belly.