Sow belly

Sow belly

The cut of pork that, when cured, became bacon. Late-twentieth-century dictionaries refer to sow belly as bacon.
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The boys would bring me my breakfast of soda biscuit and sow belly. I have walked majestic and solemn at midnight and drank water that would make an engine foam in 15 minutes.
My fondest memories are of coming in from a long day of riding and having a meal of good old sour dough biscuits, red beans, and sow belly.