Everyone is eating pork loin because it is less than $2 a pound.
Weirdly, in spite of all the pork loin being bought , ham hocks are scarce and extremely high priced. Maybe they are worth more as smoked dog chews than in the meat dept.
ham hocks are scarce and extremely high priced.
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Yes hocks are muscle meat and one of the best parts of a hog. My mom boiled them to make a broth, in which she then slow boiled up large potato dumplings. These were large full hand sized potato dumplings stuffed with bits of fat back, onions, ham or bacon. The broth would became thick from slow boiling the potato dumplings, which was served as a gravy over the cooked dumplings and the meat off the hocks. I got my hands on some pork hocks from a butcher a while back and they’re in the freezer waiting to be boiled up.