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Pork chop
Pork chop: a loin cut of pork sliced perpendicular to the spine, sold as rib, loin, blade, sirloin, porterhouse, or T-bone chops; cooked to 145°F with a 3-minute rest and safe when pink at temperature.
Pork pie
Pork pie: British cold pie of chopped pork and jelly in hot water crust pastry; the Melton Mowbray variant (PGI, uncured grey pork, 30% minimum meat) is its protected regional form.
Pork pie hat
Pork pie hat, also written porkpie, a soft hat with a flat low telescoped crown and narrow upturned brim, named for the British pork pie pastry; 1860s women's wear, later Buster Keaton's and jazz legend Lester Young's signature hat.
Pork ribs
Pork ribs are cuts from the pig's rib cage: baby back ribs from the loin, spareribs and St. Louis cut from the belly, plus rib tips and country-style. USDA safe temperature is 145 degrees F with a 3-minute rest; slow cooking melts collagen into gelatin.
Pork rind
Pork rind, also called chicharrón, cracklin, or pork scratching, is dehydrated pork skin deep-fried until puffy and crisp. High-protein, zero-carb snack; U.S. sales near $273 million in 2018.
Pork roll
Pork roll, also called Taylor ham, is a smoked, cured processed pork loaf from Trenton, New Jersey, created by John Taylor in 1856, renamed under the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act, and eaten as the state's signature pork roll, egg, and cheese sandwich.
Pork tenderloin
Pork tenderloin (filet de porc, solomillo de cerdo) is the lean, boneless psoas muscle of the pork loin, weighing ¾–1½ lb, cooked by dry heat to 145°F with a 3-minute rest.
Pornography in Europe
Pornography in Europe: production, distribution, and consumption of sexually explicit material across European countries, regulated variously through prohibitionism, partial liberalisation, and self-regulation, with EU Digital Services Act enforcement against Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX, and XVideos and rapid adoption of mandatory age verification since 2025.
Poroporoaki
Poroporoaki is a Māori term for a formal farewell, meaning as a verb to take leave of someone and as a noun the farewell speech itself, most often heard at the tangihanga.
Porridge
Porridge, called oatmeal in North America, is a thick hot cereal made by boiling oats or other grains in water or milk; known regionally as congee, kanji, and dakjuk, with Neolithic origins and beta-glucan fiber linked to heart health.
Port wine
Port wine (vinho do Porto) is a Portuguese fortified wine from the Douro Demarcated Region, made by adding aguardente to stop fermentation, 18-22% alcohol; world's oldest demarcated wine region, styles include Ruby, Tawny, Vintage, LBV, Colheita.
Porter (beer)
Porter is a dark, well-hopped beer style that developed from London brown beer around 1720, named for the porters who drank it. It powered the first industrial-scale breweries, spawned stout as a stronger variant, declined after World War I, and revived in craft brewing.
Portillo's Restaurants
Portillo's Restaurants: Chicago-area fast-casual chain founded in 1963 by Dick Portillo as 'The Dog House' in Villa Park, Illinois, with $1,100; now over 100 restaurants in 11 states, Nasdaq-listed as PTLO, known for Italian beef and Chicago-style hot dogs.
Portuguese cuisine
Portuguese cuisine: the national cooking of Portugal, Mediterranean in base and Atlantic in fish, built on bacalhau, azeite, cozido à portuguesa, regional dishes from caldo verde to cataplana, convent sweets, and cod cooked in hundreds of ways.
Posset
Posset: historic British drink of milk curdled with wine, ale, or citrus, sweetened and spiced; layered grace, custard, and alcohol; obsolete by 1800, revived as lemon posset dessert.
Post Consumer Brands
Post Consumer Brands, Post Foods + MOM Brands merger (2015), Lakeville, Minnesota-based Post Holdings subsidiary making cereal (Honey Bunches of Oats, Pebbles, Malt-O-Meal), Peter Pan peanut butter, and Nutrish, 9Lives, Kibbles 'n Bits pet food; #3 in US RTE cereal.
Postcard
Postcard: rectangular card mailed without an envelope, image on front, message, address, and postage on back; also called post card; first issued by Austria in 1869; golden age 1898–1915; collecting it is deltiology.
Postum
Postum is a caffeine-free instant roasted-grain beverage of wheat, wheat bran, and molasses, invented by C.W. Post in Battle Creek in 1895, discontinued by Kraft in 2007, and revived in 2012 by Eliza's Quest Foods; its wheat base contains gluten and its Matcha flavor contains caffeine.
Pot roast
Pot roast is an American beef dish, also called Yankee pot roast in its New England vegetable version: a tough cut such as chuck or brisket browned, then braised slowly in a covered pot with a little liquid until tender, an Americanism in print since 1881.
Pot-au-feu
Pot-au-feu, French "pot on the fire," is the traditional French boiled beef and vegetable stew, broth served first, meat second; national dish of France, attested from the 17th century.
Potassium sorbate
Potassium sorbate (E202, INS 202), the potassium salt of sorbic acid (C6H7KO2, CAS 24634-61-5), is a widely used preservative inhibiting yeasts and molds, effective at acidic pH, GRAS in the US and authorized in the EU.
Potato chips
Potato chips, or crisps, thin fried or baked potato slices popularized as Saratoga chips from 1853; low-sugar varieties like Atlantic, acrylamide mitigation, and US per capita use of 18.1 lb distinguish the snack.
Potato pancake
Potato pancake: a thin flat fried cake of potato, flour, and egg, known as latkes, Kartoffelpuffer, draniki, placki ziemniaczane, boxty, and gamjajeon; grated or mashed potato base, spread across Central and Eastern Europe after the potato's 19th-century adoption.
Potato salad
Potato salad (Kartoffelsalat) is boiled potatoes with a dressing, from German vinegar, broth, or mayo versions to American mayonnaise salad; oldest known recipe is Austrian, 1621.
Potlatch
Potlatch, from Chinook jargon for 'to give', is the ceremonial feast of Northwest Coast Indigenous nations such as the Kwakwaka'wakw and Tlingit, where hosts distribute or destroy property before witnessing guests; banned in Canada 1885–1951, revived after repatriation of confiscated regalia.
Potter's wheel
Potter's wheel: rotating horizontal disk for hand-shaping clay (throwing). Invented 5th millennium BC Near East; simple, kick, belt-drive and direct-drive electric types; speeds 30–240 rpm by stage.
Pottery of ancient Greece
Pottery of ancient Greece: fired-clay vessels from c. 1000 BCE onward, including Attic black-figure and red-figure wares, updraft kilns, three-stage firing, and vase typologies used for dating.
Poultry Products
Poultry products are foods manufactured from poultry, including raw carcasses, cuts, nuggets, patties, and canned items. Regulated by USDA's Poultry Products Inspection Act (1957) and graded A, B, C; US sector sales $81.7 billion in 2025.
Pounamu
Pounamu, also called greenstone or New Zealand jade, is the treasured nephrite and bowenite stone found only in New Zealand's South Island. Prized by Māori for tools, weapons and adornment, traded nationwide, and owned in its natural state by Ngāi Tahu under the 1997 vesting act.
Pound cake
Pound cake, also called quatre-quarts, is a dense butter cake named for its original one pound each of flour, butter, sugar, and eggs, first documented in 1747 England and traditionally leavened only by beaten egg.