fat meat
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fat meat (also fatback) noun Fatty meat from the back of a hog, usually salted; bacon. [DARE labels this term "chiefly Midland, also South" in the U.S.]
1949 Kurath Word Geog East US 70 Less common terms [for salt pork in the South and South Midland”] are fat-back ... and fat-meat. 1977 Hamilton Mt Memories 103 Kate would fry strips of fat meat—we called it bacon—and make gravy by stirring flour into the drippings and adding milk. 1990 Oliver Cooking Hazel Creek 13 When a settler wanted a mess of [green beans] during the winter they were unstrung, broken up, washed & put to soak for awhile, and then cooked like fresh green beans with fatback or streaky lean for seasoning.