[Sca-cooks] Re: Chinese Roast Pig

[Steve]

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And this all happened when Marco Polo was visiting and some noodles were
drying over a pot of water and when the house burned down the noodles fell
into the water which was boiling from the fire.  Mr. Polo saw this and
brought pasta back to Italy right?

Æduin

At 07:09 AM 12/03/2001 +1100, you wrote:

> > From: Maire
>
> > > Some knight in China sat on a pig??? <g>
> > I haven't heard the roast pork story....tell, please?
>
>That is probably the one about a Chinese man whose house burned down - with,
>of course, the pigs inside.  The man tasted the flesh of the pig and it was
>good and he spread the word to his neighbours who then burned down their
>houses with their pigs inside ...  Luckily, they hit upon a more efficient
>way of roasting pork at some time or we would still be burning down our
>houses for a nice bit of roast piggy.
>
>Gwynydd
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