Sunday, October 26, 2003
Pigs love pie
We stopped at a farm stand this afternoon to buy some pumpkins to carve for Halloween. Nearby the pumpkins was a fenced-in area with several goats, hens and a single pig in separate pens. The pig was busy gobbling down an entire cherry pie. The owner said that all his pigs have loved pie. Not surprising. Who doesn't love pie? 
. The pig gets to eat all of the pies that haven't sold. He'll eat any type of pie except peach -- apparently peach is too sweet.
In contrast to this pig's discriminating taste in pies, his predecessor would eat anything. Tin cans, old shoes, cardboard, whatever he could get his teeth on. Apparently indiscriminate pigs are nothing new, years ago it was common for New England farmers to dump their household trash into the pig trough and let them chow down. Pigs must have pretty tough digestive systems to process all of this "roughage". This reminds me of a movie reference from Snatch where Brick Top is telling an associate how he uses pigs to dispose of bodies (Brick Top: You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes). Yikes.
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