pork bellies
Fatty pig cuts
Pork bellies are cuts of meat from the underside of a pig—the same cut that becomes bacon when cured and smoked.
The term appears most often in financial contexts, where pork belly futures were once a staple of commodity trading: He made his fortune trading pork bellies in Chicago.
Fresh pork belly has become fashionable in restaurants, served braised or roasted.
- meatAnimal tissue for food
- commodityFungible traded good
- commodity tradingBuying and selling raw materials
- futuresContracts for future delivery
- lardonsDiced cured pork fat
trading · bacon · streaky bacon · ribs · pancetta · pigs · futures contracts · brine · smoked · Eddie Murphy · swine · hogs · market speculation · hedge · cured · fatback · fat cap · cured meats
- commoditiesgold, silver, oil, crude oil, natural gas
- commodities tradingcommodities, commodity markets, commodity prices, futures, futures contracts
- meatsbeef, chicken, ham, mutton, lamb
- cropsmaize, wheat, rice, corn, potatoes
- Tradablescommodities, equities, securities, currencies, derivatives
pork belliespork loin
Cut from pig's back
tenderloin · pork chops · ham · pork shoulder · back bacon
pork bellieswheat futures
Contracts for grain delivery
corn futures · soybeans · gold · coffee futures · precious metals
pork bellieslean meat
Flesh with little fat
turkey breast · pork tenderloin · eye of round · white meat · chicken breast