[Originally published in the Porkopolis Notebook in 1998.]
Sorry folks, this one’s bogus. That’s a fine example of a Hampshire boar, right, while the Belted Galloway, left, is definitely of the bovine persuasion, not “a really big pig” as some of our younger visitors have suggested.
Curiously, many registered breeders of Galloways credited the beast as the inspiration for the Oreo cookie, a claim RJR Nabisco vehemently denies.
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