Wendy's is bringing barbecue to a national audience with its three new BBQ Pulled Pork offerings: BBQ Pulled Pork Sandwich, BBQ Pulled Pork Cheeseburger, and BBQ Pulled Pork Cheese Fries.

The Pulled Pork Sandwiches are an easy slow cooker recipe perfect for serving a crowd. Tender slow-cooked pork shoulder is shredded, piled on soft buns, and topped with BBQ sauce and slaw. Serve them with your favorite sides like potato salad, chips, fries, or pasta salad.

A pulled pork sandwich is a barbecue dish consisting of slow-cooked, shredded pork with barbecue sauce, served on sandwich buns with various toppings, like coleslaw, sliced onions, and pickles.

Why Is It Called “Pulled Pork”? This dish is named after the preparation method for the cooked meat. The roasted pork is shredded (or pulled) into shreds using hands, forks, or meat claws. This process tenderizes the meat and releases the flavor.

Pulled pork most likely originates from what is today the American South. Spanish explorers brought the newly discovered barbacoa – both the device and the manner of cooking – north. Natives copied the design and by the time of the Colonies, slow cooking a whole hog was a Southern institution.

This process of smoking pork was first created when Spanish settlers first arrived in the United States. They watched natives building a smoky fire underneath their game and took notice of how the process kept bugs away and preserved the meat. This is known to be the earliest version of a barbeque.

Pulled pork cooking has its roots in the Southern United States, where early settlers brought pigs with them when they arrived. As cattle perished, pigs were the only animals that could survive the weather conditions, hence the reason why pork was the only variety of meat available to the settlers.

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The shoulder cut of pork, or mixed cuts, at times referred to as the Boston Butt, is commonly used for pulled pork cooking. Although basically the name pulled pork is derived by the action of being able to pull the pork by hand, other forms such as sliced, chopped and shredded are also often referred to as pulled pork.

Barbecued pork may refer to: Smoked pork, in one of a number of regional variations of barbecue in the United States. Bakkwa, a southern Chinese meat preservation method whereby meat is either minced and formed into thin squares, or cleanly sliced from blocks of solid meat.