Pork rinds
A common delicacy is strips of heavily salted and fried fatback. Fatback was extremely popular in the South during the Great Depression because it is an inexpensive piece of meat. In the southwestern United States, fried fatback is known by its Spanish name, chicharrón.
What is fatback called at the grocery store?
Fatback, Pork Belly and Lard
Pork belly usually has both meat and fat and, when cured, becomes bacon. Fatback and pork belly are both considered hard fats.
What else is fatback called?
Through the years certain synonyms for fatback have arisen, among them salt pork, fat meat, fat pork, (dry) salt meat, salt bacon, seasoning meat, side meat, sowbelly, white bacon, and middling meat.
