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Fox news is reporting that an 11 year old boy killed a wild pig with a a pistol. The pig was over 9 feet long and over 1000 pounds. From the picture, it looks like a rhino.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,275524,00.html

Of course, his dad has a website now: http://www.monsterpig.com
As the caption reads, "BIGGER than Hogzilla!"


Happy weekend . . . .



-- John

They'd better watch out before Subdeacon Borislav tries to turn that hog into a big hunk of salo!

I watched the episode on Hogizille on National Geographic. They said the pig was most likely a farm breed pig which go released in the wild and cross breed with a feral pig. Anyway, that is one BIG pig!

"That's some pig."

Scary, that ain't no piggie...that's a monster hog fit for this weekend's BIG family bar-be-cue...

What kinda sauce we using ?

james

Sarma time.

The Fiorella's Jack Stack Barbecue Sauce from Kansas City!

I encourage everyone to eat there once!

http://www.jackstackbbq.com/

http://www.toprestaurants.com/missouri/jackstackbbq.htm

Did someone mention sala???????/

Alexandr

This story is probably such a fraud, and that's not a wild boar anyway. People will do anything to get in the news these days.

My brother and I were discussing salo yesterday, we were wondering if it was served cold, room temp. or if it is cooked.

For those of us who are not Eastern European and don't get alot of the posts about 'salo' here:

( and btw Dr. Eric, the answer to your questions about salo and how it is prepared as a food, is also on the Wikipedia page below)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salo_(food)

Salo in popular culture

In Eastern-European humour, salo is a stereotypical attribute of Ukrainian culture, analogous to vodka in Russian. In jokes salo is often represented as the highest object of desire for the stereotypical Ukrainian.

A Ukrainian tourist is questioned at international customs:

�Are you carrying any weapons or drugs?
�Yes, salo.
�But salo is not a drug.
�When I eat salo, I get high!

Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin wrote a scandalous book, Blue Salo (a pun with the expression "blue blood").

Salo in Chocolate

The expression "chocolate-coated salo" (salo v shokolade), originating in an ethnic joke about Ukrainians, has become clich� among Eastern Slavs, referring to an eclectic mix of tastes or desires. In the early 1990s, the joke became reality at an unorthodox, art-oriented restaurant "Lyal'ka" in Lviv, which made the dish an exclusive, expensive novelty. The BBC reported it among the World's Most Unhealthy Foods [1], failing to report its humorous irony.

In the 2000s, Odessa Confectionery Factory started production of candies Salo v Shokolade [2], [3], [4]. Popular singer Ruslana is a fan of this treat. The chocolate candies were invented as an April Fool's Day joke (Odessa being the de facto humour capital of the former Soviet Union). They are not actually salo; they contain a regular caramel filling with a small amount of rendered fat added as a salty flavouring.

GOOD GOLLY NED that pig must have been living near a nuclear power plant ^^

I've been hog hunting a few times with my friends at one of my best friend's cabin in South Georgia. The original Hogzilla was killed on a plantation/farm not but a few miles away from my friend's place!

Also, Lineville/Clay County, where this story is set, is only about 45 minutes from my house, and directly on the way to our lakehouse. I pass through there every week or two for most of the summer. LOL.

Alexis

Oh, and Orthodox Pyrohy, even though it's my nature to be suspicious, I suspect you're not from the Deep South. It's not inconceivable for a hog to get that big. Even the "average" sized ones are gigantic.

Anyway, we Southerners are a God-fearing people and not prone to telling fibs in order to get attention! (We leave that up to Yankees).

Alexis

I agree Garrett that this hog ain't no "bull"!

Here's another one:

http://www.gon.com/article.php?id=1017&cid=84

Or is it the same one?