It goes by a lot of names: beef belly, beef navel, navel brisket, or beef plate. This is anatomically equivalent to pork belly, the same cut that is smoked and sliced for bacon, so it has the same banding with alternating layers of muscle and fat.

The beef belly is better known by its industry term – navel. The navel cut is what the brisket joins into, just a little further down the body. Just like pork, it's rippled with seams of fat that when cooked correctly transform to golden rendered ribbons.

Beef tripe is most often obtained from the first three of the four stomachs of beef cattle (rumen, reticulum, and omasum). The most tender and mild flavored is called honeycomb because one side has a honeycomb pattern.

Beef belly, also referred to as beef navel or plate, is the fatty cut from the underside of the cow just behind the front legs. It is the same cut as pork belly only bigger.