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pulled pork

pulled pork

5 2.4
Pork cooked slowly until soft and shredded, often served with barbecue sauce
  • noun
  • /pʊld pɔrk/
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  • For dinner, they served flavorful pulled pork on soft buns with barbecue sauce.
  • pulled pork sandwich
  • pulled pork barbecue
  • pulled pork recipe

No one would sit in a pig slaughterhouse and go, I'm sure glad I eat pulled pork.

Examples

  • Three pulled pork tacos, please, extra hot sauce.

  • Pulled pork sandwiches with coleslaw and a side of pickles were a perfect reward for an experimental day in the kitchen.

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  • We brought you a pulled pork plate.

  • You like the pulled pork sandwiches, huh?

  • Best pulled pork sandwich in the whole wide world.

  • You name it, I like both their pulled pork and ribs.

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  • Feel like pulled pork for dinner, Fluffy?

  • Waffle fries with pulled pork, really good pulled pork on top.

  • This menu has barbecue pulled pork, Angus beef meatloaf, and a Cuban black bean and pork bowl.

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  • Loguidice and Snooks had another company install a simpler design on the truck, and their food, which ranges from pizza and pasta to pulled-pork sandwiches, is winning praise.

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How Tender

pulled pork
5 2.4
roast pork
3 1.0
tough
31 1.7

Surface Forms

pulled pork singular
pulled porks plural

Morphology

pulled + pork

The noun phrase is compositionally built: a B1 learner who knows 'pork' and understands 'pulled' as the past participle of 'pull' can infer pork that has been pulled/apart (i.e. shredded). However, the specific culinary process (slow-cooking, barbecue context) and the conventionalized sense 'pulled' = 'shredded and served as barbecue' may not be fully predictable, so the expression is only partly transparent.

Etymology

The dish pulled pork gets its name from how cooks make it. The pork is cooked slowly until very soft and then people pull it apart with forks into thin pieces, so the name means 'shredded pork'.