Shoulder Picnic Roast or Shoulder Butt Roast?

[smokeywray]

Walmart has both Pork Shoulder Picnic Roast and Pork Shoulder Butt Roast, What's the difference? The picnic is 1.18/lb and the Butt is 1.78/lb. I'm leaning towards purchasing 2-3 of these and I'm thinking about going with the Butts using simple logic of you get what you pay for. Is there really much of a diffence between the two? Are these prices fair?

 

[fatback joe]

Picnic and butt together make up the whole shoulder. Butt is the top portion, picnic is the lower portion. I prefer butts for smoking.....picnics seem to have a little more sinew and stuff to them, but are still good eats...........I don't think you would be disappointed if you tried one.

Prices are good for around here.......FWIW

 

[lcruzen]

Picnics are good tasty meat but more bone than butts. Like ya said ya get what ya pay for. I usually use a picnic if I want to cure for a ham.

 

[smokeywray]

Thanks, can't wait to get you guys some qview of the big upcoming smoke/grill this week.