Donald Trumpâs Pledge to Defend Article XII of Constitution Raises Eyebrows. To the list of eyebrow-raising moments at meetings between presumed Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and congressional Republicans on Thursday add this: an exchange about the U.S. Constitution. At a closed-door meeting with House Republicans, Mr. Trump took a question about the U.S. Constitution.
If you get it whole, pork belly is one big, long cut of meat, weighing up to 12 pounds. Think of it as a big slab of bacon. You can actually buy pork belly to make your bacon. Once you brine or cure it, and smoke it, it becomes bacon. But the pork belly you are seeing on menus and in food magazines is different.
Pork is divided into large sections called primal cuts, which you can see illustrated in the pig diagram above. These primals are then broken down further into individual retail cuts, which is what you find at the store. The most tender cuts of pork are from the rib and loin. It's where we get the expression high on the hog â the most desirable cuts of meat come from higher up on the animal.