I like pigs but do not own any and I would like to dedicate this post to them. So please feel free to share images, stories or facts about pigs any breed will do and of course a little bonus any swine themed coins or banknotes. 🐷🐖
When I was a child, I had a relative who ran a farm. The highlights of the visits were when he'd feed the pigs. He'd load up a big bucket with all the table scraps, as well as milk and donuts from the local grocery store. He'd dump it in a long trough and they would mob it like, well, pigs.
I thought they were adorable, but my relative always warned us not to get too close to them because they could be very dangerous. Still, I loved watching the pigs, especially at feeding time.
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When I was a child, I had a relative who ran a farm. The highlights of the visits were when he'd feed the pigs. He'd load up a big bucket with all the table scraps, as well as milk and donuts from the local grocery store. He'd dump it in a long trough and they would mob it like, well, pigs.
I thought they were adorable, but my relative always warned us not to get too close to them because they could be very dangerous. Still, I loved watching the pigs, especially at feeding time.
There is an old barn near where I grew up and I grew up listening to tales of how a farmer once got eaten in there by a pack of pigs!!!
When I was a child, I had a relative who ran a farm. The highlights of the visits were when he'd feed the pigs. He'd load up a big bucket with all the table scraps, as well as milk and donuts from the local grocery store. He'd dump it in a long trough and they would mob it like, well, pigs.
I thought they were adorable, but my relative always warned us not to get too close to them because they could be very dangerous. Still, I loved watching the pigs, especially at feeding time.
There is an old barn near where I grew up and I grew up listening to tales of how a farmer once got eaten in there by a pack of pigs!!!
The mafia in the US used that method to dispose of bodies sometimes.
When the grandchildren were small, they always watched the children's series "Pepa Pig" on TV.
So I bought Peppa alive -the little one who grew up.
It turned out that he is the best watchman of the yard and the whole garden and with a better sense of smell than a dog.
The dog could only concentrate on guarding his master's coins and collection - by lying by the burning fireplace and watching the situation.
I've also tried weed killers so I don't have to mow regularly:
How do they fit together?
Pepa the pig took over all responsibility for running the household and garden and regulating all visits to our house. He started deciding who can join us and who can't.
He refused to guard his master's coins and preferred to chase the sheep around the garden, so I said goodbye to him - and he had to leave the house.
Plus two cats and in the past also a hen and a rooster - however, he attacked me from behind so in the air when he flew at me, I tore him apart.
In Denmark we have this, salted and smoked, which we fry in a frying pan and serve with a white parsley sauce and white potatoes. Of course, there's mostly fat coming out of that, which we put aside to be used on our open sandwiches. In France it can not be found at your butcher!
This is a Danish national dish (flæskesteg) , and of course no longer available in France!
The French do not want the pig fat. I wonder what they do with the fat, maybe they use all of it in their patées?
In Denmark we have this, salted and smoked, which we fry on a frying pan and serve with a white parsley sauce and potatoes. Of course, there's mostly fat coming out of that, which we put aside to be used on our open sandwiches. In France it can not be found at your butcher!
This is a Danish national dish (flæskesteg) , and of course no longer available in France!
The French do not want the love pig fat. I wonder, what they do with the fat, maybe they use all of it in their patées?
I am trying to cut down on my meat consumption as it is not what it used to be. I believe that it is over processed and unhealthy. If there is any fat in my house though I will eat it with my stuffing.
Fortunately, where we live most of the farms have their animals outdoors most of the year - cows, sheep, horses, but not pigs (since there are many wild boars). It's so wonderful to see how the animals feel comfortable, how they sometimes sleep on the side fully stretched. Funniest to watch are sheeps, in the summer heat they find a cold rock and use it as a pillow, sometimes as a recliner (imagine that they sit upright just as people do). They also taste great.
Proper smoked belly - bacon should have strips of meat in lard like the stripes of the ADIDAS logo.
When I was on an exchange visit with the Royal Army of Belgium in the town of Huy, they regularly served fried bacon, nicely sliced and baked to a crisp, on a plate in the morning, with eggs.
There was a French woman there and she claimed that it was also her favorite dish.
The difference will probably be between the inhabitants of the cities and the remote countryside - where the tradition of smoking meat or, as in Italy, drying it, has a long tradition.
It is due to the fact that people needed to store food for the winter, to think that the last 75 years have been in a person's life when there are refrigerators, freezers, etc. - Even though I haven't been able to eat for 4 years and only drink mixed food - I try to follow the traditions of my ancestors.
,, I had a broken earthenware barrel for sauerkraut - on Wednesday my son bought me a new one, and after a few years I will load homemade sauerkraut again - a whole barrel for the winter according to the procedure of our ancestors,,
I love pigs, clean intelligent animals and surprisingly affectionate at the right times.
The way we treat them is scandalous. I love making pig noises and anyone doing real pig grunts will reduce to me to hysterics in no time.
I even got obsessed with Pigs when I was 10, in 1986 a silly British Comic called Oink! came out and it was like a kiddie version of VIZ. But it was a pigs rights charter (Slightly anarchic) and one of the issues came with a record that had a song called “Don't eat pigs because they are made from ham - eat that nasty butcherman” and then featured pig grunts. Needless to say I was hooked and the magazines had posters of pigs morphed into celebrities like George Hamichael, Hamantha Fox etc (It was 1986!) - I even drew the outlines of a pig, which was their logo. Other kids started copying me and it got out of hand, when some doofus spray painted “Oink! pigs” over the school and I got the blame.
But today I still love pigs and oinking. If we were all anthromorphic (Like some Disney/Richard Scarry dystopian reality) I would definitely be a pig or a monkey!
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I love pigs, clean intelligent animals and surprisingly affectionate at the right times.
The way we treat them is scandalous. I love making pig noises and anyone doing real pig grunts will reduce to me to hysterics in no time.
I even got obsessed with Pigs when I was 10, in 1986 a silly British Comic called Oink! came out and it was like a kiddie version of VIZ. But it was a pigs rights charter (Slightly anarchic) and one of the issues came with a record that had a song called “Don't eat pigs because they are made from ham - eat that nasty butcherman” and then featured pig grunts. Needless to say I was hooked and the magazines had posters of pigs morphed into celebrities like George Hamichael, Hamantha Fox etc (It was 1986!) - I even drew the outlines of a pig, which was their logo. Other kids started copying me and it got out of hand, when some doofus spray painted “Oink! pigs” over the school and I got the blame.
But today I still love pigs and oinking. If we were all anthromorphic (Like some Disney/Richard Scarry dystopian reality) I would definitely be a pig or a monkey!
In Denmark we have this, salted and smoked, which we fry on a frying pan and serve with a white parsley sauce and potatoes. Of course, there's mostly fat coming out of that, which we put aside to be used on our open sandwiches. In France it can not be found at your butcher!
This is a Danish national dish (flæskesteg) , and of course no longer available in France!
The French do not want the love pig fat. I wonder, what they do with the fat, maybe they use all of it in their patées?
The first dish stegt flæsk med persillesovs (roast pork with parsley sauce, served with pealed boiled potatoes) is an ubiquitous dish in Denmark, it's easy to prepare and kids love it. But, even though the sauce is easy to make, some diners perhaps don't employ danes, so it tastes like glue. Hint: Always ask for a diner where they know what they are doing.
The second dish (looks really good on the image) is flæskesteg (roast pork) as Sjoelund mentioned. The dish is roasted for a long time in the oven and traditionally served with pealed boiled potatoes and a fat dark sauce made on the fluids of the roast. This particular piece of pig is only sold in Denmark (as shown in the image). Something similar is sold in other countries, but not cut like in Denmark and not prepared with sliced skin. Before roasting the sliced skin is rubbed in flake salt, then a couple of laurel leafs (Laurus nobilis) is placed on the skin and perhaps also some thyme. The dish used to be the typical Christmas roast, but the times they are a-changin', and now roast duck is quite popular at Christmas.
PS. The sliced skin is really crunchy when roasted properly and can be set aside as a snack for later, but taste the best when still warm.
Of course - well, I'll continue with the transition to coins.
,,The wild boar has appeared in human culture since prehistoric times, mostly as an important source of meat and fat, but also as a symbol of fertile power, masculinity and courage. Already on Paleolithic cave paintings from Altamira, Spain, we can see boars and their hunting. For prehistoric and ancient hunters, boar hunting was not only a way to obtain food, but also a proof of masculinity and courage.,, -
So I state that the pig has overtaken Princesses and Queens and variously Lenin and (Stalin - and that was also a good pig). Presidents -and other motifs on coins.
It is our history and we can have any relation to this animal, but no one can dispute its place in numismatics.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others and Pigs are the most equal animals of all.
Yes, excellent a great dichotomy on how revolutionary power corrupts - it was basically a send up of communism and fascism. The pigs were part of the liberation force, but became the thugs in charge (Mussolini, Hitler, Lenin, Stalin) and the farmers represented the old monarchies and order. The rabbits, sheep, cattle etc were the peasants/people.
Been a few years since I read it.
More innocently “Duck Tales” which they have on Disney Plus, seems to have only Dogs, Pigs and various kinds of ducks and hens as their characters and Pig characters are often the professional and patrician animals (Besides Ducks of course), whereas most of the dog characters are hoi polloi.
In general the pig is viewed as a rather greedy, selfish and aloofish animal in human literature (Mostly aimed at juveniles - Animal farm was an exception - although we studied it in 5th form (3rd to last year of high school)). The stereotype of a pig as fat and greedy (Mostly caused by human breeding, originally porcines (Scrofoids) were sleek and vital, a wild boar has a head almost as large as its body, a modern Tamworth pig has a body ¼ the length of its body. Domestic pigs are less likely to have tusks and are less aggressive than wild boars, peccaries and warthogs (Timon was one). Pigs are bred to be meat animals (I don't mind pigmeat, but don't like any fatty meat with excessive fat, even steaks I cut the fat off). I have some Jewish ancestry, so thus have a bit of aversion to swine flesh.
Pigs being dirty is mostly due to them wallowing in mud, which is a cooling mechanism - pigs try to be clean but can not cope well in hot weather. They also toilet in one place - however a pig can not clean itself like a cat and they must immerse in water. Like most domestic mammals, a pig can be trained basic commands and some are as intelligent as cats, dogs and bears although they remain below the level of dolphins and apes. Pigs also in optimal condition will not stop eating and will eat themselves to death, however wild pigs/boars etc seldom do this and often eat enough to survive living like most animals in a feast/famine syndrome.
Pigs are extremely fertile and will have several litters of piglets in a year. Some litters have had as many as 24 piglets, but an average is 6 - 15. Given the huge size of a sow and competition for teets, many piglets outside a commercial setting will die before adulthood. There is no parental investment by the father. He basically raps to the sow “Yo yo bi#$H I hope you took the pill, because I won't pay the bill yo!” (That is an actual rap song and may explain why 78% of African American children are born to unmarried women).
Pigs are also very clumsy creatures and often stories of large sows crushing their piglets to death are common, this was why the extremely cruel sow crate was introduced. I say this as my daughter in law had some pigs, a sow who had several piglets and most died, she smothered several of them. She was 200kg and the piglets weighed under 2kg each. One piglet was born without an anus and died within weeks after bloating up. The pigs also tore up her yard and the experiment ended!
A pigs flesh is similar to human flesh and pig organs have been successfully put on humans, pig skin grafts are common and often pigs are used in experiments in human decomposition and forensic science. Medieval Chinese innkeepers that murdered people for profit, referred to human flesh as “2 legged mutton or pork”. Papuan cannibals called human flesh “Long pork” and one tribe of Papuans who were dying of mad cow disease from eating other humans in the 1950s, were converted to eating pork and it went away!
Overall pigs do so much for us and we treat them so poorly - if anything animals become sentient and overthrow humans, its the pig we will need to fear.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others and Pigs are the most equal animals of all.
Yes, excellent a great dichotomy on how revolutionary power corrupts - it was basically a send up of communism and fascism. The pigs were part of the liberation force, but became the thugs in charge (Mussolini, Hitler, Lenin, Stalin) and the farmers represented the old monarchies and order. The rabbits, sheep, cattle etc were the peasants/people.
Been a few years since I read it.
More innocently “Duck Tales” which they have on Disney Plus, seems to have only Dogs, Pigs and various kinds of ducks and hens as their characters and Pig characters are often the professional and patrician animals (Besides Ducks of course), whereas most of the dog characters are hoi polloi.
In general the pig is viewed as a rather greedy, selfish and aloofish animal in human literature (Mostly aimed at juveniles - Animal farm was an exception - although we studied it in 5th form (3rd to last year of high school)). The stereotype of a pig as fat and greedy (Mostly caused by human breeding, originally porcines (Scrofoids) were sleek and vital, a wild boar has a head almost as large as its body, a modern Tamworth pig has a body ¼ the length of its body. Domestic pigs are less likely to have tusks and are less aggressive than wild boars, peccaries and warthogs (Timon was one). Pigs are bred to be meat animals (I don't mind pigmeat, but don't like any fatty meat with excessive fat, even steaks I cut the fat off). I have some Jewish ancestry, so thus have a bit of aversion to swine flesh.
Pigs being dirty is mostly due to them wallowing in mud, which is a cooling mechanism - pigs try to be clean but can not cope well in hot weather. They also toilet in one place - however a pig can not clean itself like a cat and they must immerse in water. Like most domestic mammals, a pig can be trained basic commands and some are as intelligent as cats, dogs and bears although they remain below the level of dolphins and apes. Pigs also in optimal condition will not stop eating and will eat themselves to death, however wild pigs/boars etc seldom do this and often eat enough to survive living like most animals in a feast/famine syndrome.
Pigs are extremely fertile and will have several litters of piglets in a year. Some litters have had as many as 24 piglets, but an average is 6 - 15. Given the huge size of a sow and competition for teets, many piglets outside a commercial setting will die before adulthood. There is no parental investment by the father. He basically raps to the sow “Yo yo bi#$H I hope you took the pill, because I won't pay the bill yo!” (That is an actual rap song and may explain why 78% of African American children are born to unmarried women).
Pigs are also very clumsy creatures and often stories of large sows crushing their piglets to death are common, this was why the extremely cruel sow crate was introduced. I say this as my daughter in law had some pigs, a sow who had several piglets and most died, she smothered several of them. She was 200kg and the piglets weighed under 2kg each. One piglet was born without an anus and died within weeks after bloating up. The pigs also tore up her yard and the experiment ended!
A pigs flesh is similar to human flesh and pig organs have been successfully put on humans, pig skin grafts are common and often pigs are used in experiments in human decomposition and forensic science. Medieval Chinese innkeepers that murdered people for profit, referred to human flesh as “2 legged mutton or pork”. Papuan cannibals called human flesh “Long pork” and one tribe of Papuans who were dying of mad cow disease from eating other humans in the 1950s, were converted to eating pork and it went away!
Overall pigs do so much for us and we treat them so poorly - if anything animals become sentient and overthrow humans, its the pig we will need to fear.
There is a YT channel called “Mind Unveiled” and they focus on various topics they have a video on pigs that you should check out.
Moneytane There is no parental investment by the father. He basically raps to the sow “Yo yo bi#$H I hope you took the pill, because I won't pay the bill yo!” (That is an actual rap song and may explain why 78% of African American children are born to unmarried women).
Technically speaking a majority of children where I live are also born to unmarried women. Being unmarried does not mean they don't share mortgage bills with someone else. It's called cohabitation and is quite common among people in the Western world.
Hapertas - I meant totally the ones that have sex with various women and never talk to them again unless its a booty call types. The Romeos and the ones on shows like Maury.
Professional Baby daddies who hide, so they don't pay no child support.
I didn't mention the cohabitation but reject marriage scenario as marrigae is too formal and a bag for the old folks. My brother did that, he had 3 kids with a woman and stayed with her for 17 years but never married. I never said it as I am proudly gay, never been married or have any kids and never want to.
I love coins. Especially silver, gold and anything really old.
Member of the Royal Numismatic Society of New Zealand and the Auckland Numismatic Society
Professional Baby daddies who hide, so they don't pay no child support.
I understand. Well, I don't think people where I live are less horny than elsewhere, but pregnant women that are deserted by a player has some pretty decent rights here. It's impossible for a man not to pay child support. If he has no assets the welfare state will cover, but the man is in debt for life. It's pretty common that some women have their first child “by mistake”, perhaps with a player, then cohabitate with someone else afterwards. I don't think anyone is doing statistics on this.
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Meleagros hunted a wild boar. Also in the paleonite cave paintings in Spain, a scene from hunting a pig is painted.
( At least that's how I evaluated it)
