[Sca-cooks] fat or skinny period pigs

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Note that pigs weren't just left to their own devices in the country. One  
medieval king's son was killed when a pig in the Paris streets spooked his  
horse.
 
Jim  Chevallier

Contributor, Savoring Gotham
A Food  Lover's Companion to New York City
Editor-in-chief: Andrew F. Smith  and Foreword by Garrett Oliver
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In a message dated 3/4/2016 8:09:51 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
talana1 at hotmail.com writes:

My  thought would be that medieval swine that foraged most of the year and 
were  driven out when ready for slaughter, would be fairly lean.  If kept, 
or  penned before slaughter, there would be an opportunity to fatten them up  
first