I am a school teacher, and so for me, I couldn't give a rat's ass about the price of pork...or so I thought.
A few minutes ago I received a phone call from my brother-in-law who is the owner/operator of a large Southern Manitoba hog farm. Every seventeen weeks he receives, fattens, and ships off to market 5,000 hogs. Every now and again, during shipping time, there will be the odd hog with a limp or some sort of blemish which would make it unacceptable at the processing plant. One of the options
is destroy the animal and send it off to the rendering plant. Another option is to call anyone you know and ask if they want 500 pounds of free pork, minus the cost of private butchering.I spent the last few minutes with my hands waving in the air like a little schoolboy shouting out, "Pick me, pick me."
I just may have to buy another deep freeze to store all of this "other white meat" but at least I know what I'll be eating this summer. Anyone for a pork BBQ?
8 comments:
I'll be there but only after the heatwave that we're sending your way passes.
Bring it on...I'm ready for some HOT pork on a bun.
I'm guessing that this whole vegetarian fad isn't really your thing :-)
Yes, you're correct Kyk. In the frozen north we need a little more than crunchy carrots and fried romain to keep us from freezing solid in our tracks. Give me meat or give me death...even if it begins in the colon.
You can have your pork, give me a cow anyday!
Janice: Have your cow and eat it too.
Kind of reminds me of our family BBQs where there would be nothing but burgers and Tang...and not a salad in sight.
mmm...tang!
I always think of Homer saying.."sure there is some kind of MAGICAL animal that gives us bacon and ham"
Pick me pick me.
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