Pork belly
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Belly meat with rind and bone
The pork belly is the name given to the pieces of the rear ( caudal ), lower ( ventral ) chest of the domestic pigs that are well streaked with fat and streaked with ribs . The rib bones (with the surrounding tissue) of the upper third are (comparable to the rib in cattle, used, for. Example, for spareribs ) as peeling rib , sparerib , Leiterchen and the rest as pork belly offered that as bacon also streaky bacon is processed . Pork belly canboiled , fried or preserved by curing and air drying or smoking .