If you're making mouthwatering pulled pork, you're using pork butt, and it's one of the best pork cuts to smoke as ... butt and the shoulder. These are also known as "blade roast" and "arm roast ...
Pork shoulder becomes supertender when it's cooked slowly over low heat, which makes it a natural choice to braise, grill or cook inside a smoker or ... of the pork butt and the picnic shoulder.
because preserved pork shoulders were shipped in the colonial era from Boston in barrels with the size designation “butt.” The lower part is (more obviously) labeled shoulder, shoulder roast ...