Do Boston Butts = Pork Butts?

Basically ,yes for your purposes.

The butt is the upper part of the shoulder and the picnic is the lower.

Most cooks would rather cook and pull the butt.

Shoulders run about 16 lbs and butts around 7 lbs.

Thus, it often takes longer to cook a whole shoulder.

The picnic is usually thought to be a little hammier with more tendons and connective tissue.

It is usually hard to find whole shoulders.

Sometimes they call butts" shoulder blade roasts",which means the blade bone in the butt portion.

Hope this helps a little.

Thanks Tom, I'll take that as a yes...that butts are butts, whether called boston or not.