Salt pork

[1][2] Salt pork typically resembles uncut side bacon, but is fattier, being made from the lowest part of the belly, and saltier, as the cure is stronger and performed for longer, and never smoked.

[4] Salt pork now finds use in traditional American cuisine, particularly Boston baked beans, pork and beans, and to add its flavor to vegetables cooked in water, as with greens in soul food.

[citation needed] Salt pork that contains a significant amount of meat, resembling standard side bacon, is known as "streak o' lean.

As a stand-alone food product, it is typically boiled to remove much of the salt content and to partially cook the product, then fried until it starts to develop a crisp exterior.

It may be eaten as one would eat bacon or used to season other dishes like traditional salt pork.