Tuesday, September 23, 2008

"I'm Not Leaving Until I Eat This Thing"

This story about pig lips was vulgar. First of all I love animals so I hate hearing that they are being killed. I know that pork and bacon is good but just hearing about their testicles, lips, and feet being cooked and eaten really grosses me out. Pig lips may be unique and delicious with beer and chips but you won't see me eating one anytime soon. This story was very detailed and a little nasty but kind of cool to hear about their family buisness of cooking pig parts and selling them. One son in the family was even taking over the buisness when it was time. They die the pig lips different colors and sell them according to season which was supposed to make them more appealing and delicious which sounds interesting. Anyway, even though it was disgusting, it was kind of interesting to hear about people and their lives in Mississippi as pig producers and killing them and selling them as a living. I don't think I have ever thought about people doing that as a living and a family buisness of that type but it was an interesting profile. Anyway the man who is eating the pig lips at the end of the bar wanted to eat one just to dry the pink juices in the foil before he left that evening. So all these thoughts were going through his head in this story, I don't blame him for feeling nausceous before he ate it. But he crumpled it in chips and then took a bite and he actually wasn't that disgusted. Then he stared at the pigs feet and you had to assume that he was thinking about eating it. I guess the moral is to be open to new things and a great example of a profile.

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