Pulled Pork burger..

In Canada, I came across this style of cooking pork called "pulled pork".

Initially, I wondered what it meant... does it mean that the pork is stretched so that it's thin and when cooked, it's crunchy? Wait... that's bacon. Or... is it that pulled pork means cooking only the tendons of the pig? Hmm... It doesn't sound right.

So curious me went to check it out. Recently, I was at "The Hand Burger" at Raffles Place Shopping Centre at City Hall, and I remembered what it meant. For people who don't know what pulled pork is, here it is:

Interesting when you see that "pulled pork" implies something akin to "yakiniku" in Japanese food, or like... shredded pork...

It made me think... why do we only use "pulled" as an adjective for pork. I have never seen "pulled chicken" or "pulled beef", but only "pulled pork." I did a web search, and found this:

"Pulled pork is a form of barbecue originating in Mexico. It is known as Carnitas in Mexico. It is a method of preparation in which pork, usually shoulder cut (sometimes referred to as Boston butt) or mixed cuts, is cooked using a low-heat, long-cook method. With these extended times at low temperatures, the meat becomes tender enough that its weakened connective tissue allows the meat to be "pulled", or easily broken into individual pieces"
-From Wikipedia

Interesting to see this theory. In essence, when I did a dictionary search, "pull" as a verb or an adjective did not include the definition for "pulled pork". It is rather interesting to see that "pulled" here borrowed the meaning of the original meaning of pull, which is

"remove [transitive] to use force to take something from the place where it is fixed or held"
- From Longman Dictionary.

But it is not included inside. Perhaps in time, when this dish has extended to all parts of the world can we see that it will be in the dictionary too.