why is the meat from a pig called different names eg pork, ham, bacon?

Answer 1

because all those are different parts of the pig, and different types of cuts. bacon look nothing, and tastes nothing like pork chops for instance

Answer 2

Bacon is salted pig, pork is unsalted. Ham is...done in different ways. I'm not going to get into the various ways of making ham right now.

Answer 3

All pig meat is named pink meat, how ever what's made out of pink meat (pink meat products) have diverse names. The call relies upon on the way it rather is processed, and the place it rather is decrease from. as an occasion, ham is decrease from the buttock of the pig and is many times smoked. Sausage is many times small bits and products of pink meat that are "left over" from the different cuts of meat, and then it rather is floor up and spices are extra to make sausage. As on your question, some consumer-friendly names of pink meat products are Ham, writer 1st baron verulam, pink meat sausage, pink meat chops, pink meat roast, pink meat ribs, pink meat shoulder roast, pink meat rinds... and the checklist is going on. Over all any subject that has the be conscious pink meat in it rather is from a pig.

Answer 4

there are different types of pig that are bred 2 give us different types of meat, eg, porker pig 4 pork, learnt this at college many yrs ago.

Answer 5

Pork = fresh pig, or frozen these days.
Bacon = cured pig, smoked, salted etc.
Ham = the upper hind leg cut off at the hip joint & cured separately.

Answer 6

Depends where the meat comes from in terms of the animals parts and how it is cooked or cured.

Answer 7

because some come from different parts of the pig...the same applies to beef like you can get sirlion, rump etc.

Answer 8

What a great question I have always wondered that,

Answer 9

cause meat from a cow is called steak, hamburger, ribs

Answer 10

just like cow - steak, hamburger, ribs, roast