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[pattypeep]

I have never made pulled pork, but I believe I understand how it's done. My dh had lunch yesterday with a friend at a fairly new BBQ place in our town. I asked him how he liked it and he said he ordered a pulled pork sandwich and it had bits of bone in it that he had to pull out of each bite. I told him that I didn't understand how one could get bone in pulled pork. I would have brought it to the attention of the café, but he didn't. For those that cook a lot, can you suggest how this might happen? I wondered if they didn't "fill it" with something else.

[Barbarainnc]

When I cook a Boston Butt, there is one big bone, I pull out before I pull the pork. Maybe the meat just cooked so long the bone fell apart in the meat. Or they just chopped the bone into the pork?? I sure would have said something about all the bones in the pulled pork.

[Sunshine Kate]

On 9/24/2014 Barbarainnc said:

When I cook a Boston Butt, there is one big bone, I pull out before I pull the pork. Maybe the meat just cooked so long the bone fell apart in the meat. Or they just chopped the bone into the pork?? I sure would have said something about all the bones in the pulled pork.

I have made pulled pork many times and also eaten it in restaurants. I've never experienced bones.

I would have said something about bones also and probably ordered something else.

[Nightowlz]

That's what I thought one big bone. I have never ate a pulled pork sandwich that had bone in it. I would have definitely said something. I never buy those large butt's. There is just the 2 of us & I buy these smaller boneless pork butt's. They also don't have all the fat the big ones do but enough to make it good. I like these because they only weigh about 3-4 lbs. I'm making pulled pork for dinner.

[Sooner]

That place is cooking something other than pork butt. Unles they have taken a big meat saw to it or something. Butt does NOT have bones that would fit in a bun. Find another bbq place or simply ASK them about it. Maybe it is cut with some chicken meat in it?

[luvsbulldogs]

I always buy the pork butt that has the bone in for more flavor but it is important to remove the bone before pulling the pork. Also as OP said they may have cooked it too long and the bone fell apart.

[KYToby]

If it was pulled pork, I do not see how it could have had bone. Is he sure it was bone? If it had been cooked too long at too high a heat, it could have been burnt ends.

[HonnyBrown]

Everyone is correct about that one big bone in the Boston Butt. That's what we do at home.

Restaurants, however, may do something different. They may have purchased the meat from a meat packer (bulk) who mechanically processed the hogs. When the whole hog was cut, the machine got too close to the bone.

[brewhaha]

My DH likes to have his pork pulled too.

[pattypeep]

On 9/24/2014 brewhaha said:

My DH likes to have his pork pulled too.