Ham vs Butt

> hams (picnics?)

Nope. A whole shoulder is the combination of a boston butt (the top piece of the shoulder, usually to include a little piece of neck muscle known to many as the "money muscle") and a picnic (sometimes called a shoulder, or picnic shoulder) at the bottom end, the whole thing being from the front leg of the pig.

The ham is actually from the back leg portion of the pig.

butts for me, but ham does ok, fresh hams are hard to find plus more $$$