One Man's Meat, Another's Pork Rinds [Interview with Chrissie]

the Robot Vegetable veg at teleport.com
Sun Oct 27 22:33:26 CST 1996


On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, davemarc wrote:

> At 02:19 PM 10/23/96 -0700, Chrissie wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> >He doesn't
> >believe in eating pigs either. He thinks pork tastes like human flesh
> >and it would be cannibalism to eat pork.
> >
> Ummmm...what enabled him to conclude that pork tastes like human flesh?

	The term longpig refers to human meat, evidently a reference
to the length of the limbs, and came into the language from the Maori
and Polynesian peoples around 1850.  I can't address the immediancy
of his knowledge.

	veg





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