Absolutely 100% false, I’ll cook a 4 pound pork collar (aka CT butt) this weekend to prove it.
I talked to the board member in charge of the rep committee about this very subject on Saturday at a contest. There are zero current rep advisories in effect for pork.
I am fully aware of the current rules. You’d think judges should hold themselves to the same standards.
Please email the board and get up to speed before spreading more misinformation.
" There are zero current rep advisories in effect for pork."
Again, from the 2021 Rep advisory:
4.10 Pork Collar
Question: Is the cut known as “pork collar” a legal cut for purposes of entry in a KCBS contest?
Opinion: No. Rule 10 states:
PORK: Pork is defined as Boston Butt, Picnic, and/or Whole Shoulder, weighing a minimum of four(4) pounds. After trimming pork shall be cooked whole (bone in or bone out); however, once
cooked, it may be separated and returned to the cooker at the cook’s discretion.
The KCBS Board of Directors has adopted the National Pork Board’s definitions which define the standard for cuts of Boston Butt (item 406 bone in or without bone), Picnic (item 405 bone in or
without bone) and/or Whole Shoulder (item 403). Pork Collar is not included in these approved “American” definitions of food service cuts of pork. Therefore, pork collar is not an acceptable cut to be approved at meat inspection or turned in for the purposes of competition under the rules of
KCBS. In the event a pork collar cut is turned in it shall receive a score of 1 by all judges in all criteria as a foreign object being a non-approved cut of meat.
BOD February 11, 2011; Updated April 2019 with 2014 Pork rule
Say what you will, but there is the advisory from 2021 and the Rep corp is bound to administer them as rules because they are current rule.
Ralph Williams told you there are no Rep advisories for pork?
Ed