A Trespass of Swine
the Porkopolis blog
Considerations of humanity and hogritude, because an insufficiency of pigs is one of the great faults of all that the gods have made manifest to man.
21st August, 2010 – 9:46 AM
Swine are sentimentalists in this essential sense – they are thoroughly soaked and swept away merely by the scents that awash their snouts. And it is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy turnips. the Porcine Oracle
23rd April, 2010 – 9:30 AM
Saturday, April 24th is National Pig-in-a-Blanket Day in the United States. To celebrate, Porkopolis.org is offering a favorite variety, the Mangalitza. This is not a food entry on cabbage rolls or informal U.S. cuisine; it’s a blanket statement and a shaggy hog story… Literally, Pigs in Blankets Or shear swine, all cry and no wool; [...]
Also posted in Expressions, Food, History
Tagged Austria, bacon, euphemisms, extinction, fishing, France, Hungary, Lincolnshire Curly Coat, Mangalitza, Pig-in-a-Blanket, prosciutto, Samuel Butler, sheep-pig, Switzerland, wool
17th March, 2010 – 4:30 AM
The morn’s mornin’ to you on this fine St. Patrick’s Day.