Help me identify this mystery meat

[sufunsified]

My roommates left behind an interesting slab of something in the freezer. I'm hoping it's really, really fatty pork belly so I can simmer it down into lard. The skin looks just like the pig's skin when I cured bacon, but there's no muscle tissue at all in the slab - just white stuff.

Here's some pictures of it from different angles:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/95051928...

Mysterious!

[souschef]

You could fry it and call it an "Unidentified Frying Object" :)

[cb1]

Thanks Souschef. My keyboard has now been sprayed with the grits I was eating!

[c oliver]

Perfect! Kinda like the mystery roadkill called "Unidentified Flat Object."

[tullius]

seeing this thread title I wondered if it was about meat pies you bought from a shop with a barber upstairs!

[bushwickgirl]

You have fatback.

tonka_11, whale blubber is many more inches thick, btw, or maybe you were joking and I have no sense of humor.

[tonka11_99]

It has to be Hog fat or whale blubber.

[epabella]

looks like fatty pork belly with the bacon already stripped-off.

[Caroline1]

Don't know why this struck me as funny, but I'm laughing. Can we assume the fat is "milky white?"

[c oliver]

Writing it made me chuckle. Definitely "milky white."

[sufunsified]

Ah, the same thing happened to me too! I was cutting up my pork belly and got soooo creeped out by the nipples.
Yay, either way, if my mystery meat is fatback or leaf lard, I'm a happy camper. Gonna stink up the kitchen tomorrow with the aroma of rendering fat and burning chile seeds.
Mmmmmmm homemade mole.

[epabella]

i make a distinction (semantics) and refer to the focal point of animal mammaries as udders and human mammaries as nipples. to lessen the odor, have some star anise, pepper corns and ginger in the pot as you render down the fat.

[buttertart]

I always thought the udder (on cows) was the "bag" and the "nipples" the "teats" on a cow. I would suppose a lady pig has "teats" too but certainly no udder.

[buttertart]

It's definitely not leaf lard which is the hard fat that surrounds the kidneys (as is suet on a bovine). But it certainly looks like lard material to me from whatever part of the pig, back or belly.

[ipsedixit]

Unrendered leaf lard perhaps?

[mrbozo]

Looks like fatback to me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatback