[Sca-cooks] pork chips was: Okay, it's "Very Stupid Question" time...

Olwen the Odd olwentheodd at hotmail.com
Fri Apr 18 11:57:13 PDT 2008


The one thing I wondered is 'why the pork?'  Why not the plates or forks or something else?  Do you think it was an unhappy pork farmer or an even un-happier pig spirit?  Or maybe it was those wicked cows who encourage the eating of chickin....
 
Olwen    
 
> > > Of course. This is Number Three of the many hits on Google when you > enter "pork chips" as individual words. But when you enter the phrase > in quotes, you still get several thousand hits, most of which are > still recipes for pork chops with typos (or possibly some humorous > nickname) in the title, and the above is still Hit Number Three.> > Not too many are references to pork rinds, cracklin's, chicharrones, > or other fried pork-rind-ey product, oddly enough.> > I had assumed that what our telekinetic friend was eating was a meat- > based, entree-type dish of cooked pork, but never having encountered > this name before, there was some question, and one can only plug in > the data one has, after all. I had further assumed, based on he > majority of the other chips one tends to find on a dinner table, that > these were fried, possibly breaded or otherwise coated, disks or > fingers of pork, possibly ground, possibly not. Beyond that was petty > much what I was hoping to learn.> > It may come down to everybody thinking that what they were brought up > eating is in some range from "normal" to "universal", and that Food X > is part of a regional cuisine that other people in the region may be > unaware of. In the end, it may just be the numerical stats that tell > the true tale.> > Thanks for the info!> > Adamantius> > > > > "Most men worry about their own bellies, and other people's souls, > when we all ought to worry about our own souls, and other people's > bellies."> -- Rabbi Israel Salanter> > _______________________________________________> Sca-cooks mailing list> Sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org> http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/sca-cooks-ansteorra.org
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