I had to laugh the other day- a lady was asking the Walmart “butcher” if they had salt pork and he didn’t even know what it was...
I also checked the price in my local Walmart several weeks ago. Can you believe $3.00 a pound??? And to think our locals just throw it away? We don’t use much, but the things we put it in are much improved by the addition. My mother used to have salt fish dinners and she would always render out salt pork to use as gravy on boiled potatos. My family would wonder what was going on if I served salt fish. I also remember (just barely) when lobsters were so plentiful that they could be found crawling on the rocks here in Maine. People called them scavengers of the sea and they weren’t very popular. Our family could swap a couple roast chickens for a bushel of lobsters. Lobsters now sell for about $10.00 each around here.