The Pig Chef – a sinister advertising icon
The Pig Chef – a smiling swine, mouth a-watering, offering up choice preparations of the flesh of his own kind – is one of the more sinister icons of American signboard art.
Cannibal, man and pig
Think about this next time the pork is savory and your appetite keen… Human flesh is generally reported by the cannibal to taste quite a bit like pork, so that means that the pork we enjoy so much tastes like we are eating humans.
Culinary pragmatism
The necessity of nutrition – pig or man, nothing is more interesting than those things that you eat. But while idealism – perfection, utopia, beauty, etc. – is food for the soul, a different mind-set is required to feed our bodies. Our appetites can have ideals, yes, but compromise, workability, and the pragmatism of necessity often play the major role.
Acceptance and self-sacrifice?
Forget acceptance and self-sacrifice. Using the smiling swine to advertise the ham is delusion and obfuscation.
Pork and posies
Health is dictated by necessity as well as choice, where some say bread and roses, others say pork, not posies.
Gluttons and the goods of this world
Gluttons to be ringed? Just who may make that judgment and under what circumstances?
A complacent hog
Complacent hog, woman or man – when the angels, fates or devils tap us on the shoulder, how and why do we choose to listen?
A dead pig’s smile
Before that last smile , there is agony, whether in the yards of Chicago, the white towers of Smithfield or the family farm.
