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3 unusual facts about pork


Ohio Brew Week

Some examples of the contests held this past 2011 OBW are "Best Ohio Craft Beer Based Bar-B-Q Sauce", "Best Sauce 'In Show'", "Best Use of Budweiser Genuine BBQ Sauce", "Best Vegetarian BBQ", "Best BBQ Chicken", and "Best BBQ Pork".

Trichinosis

Pork can be safely cooked to a slightly lower temperature provided that the internal meat temperature is at least as hot for at least as long as listed in the USDA table below.

Pork: Freezing cuts of pork less than 6 inches thick for 20 days at 5 °F (−15 °C) or three days at −4 °F (−20 °C) kills T. spiralis larval worms; but this will not kill other trichinosis larval worm species, such as T. nativa, if they have infested the pork food supply (which is unlikely).


Anwar Kharral

He is not a very devout Muslim because he takes drugs at parties, drinks, partakes in premarital sex & even eats pork; although he does pray five times a day and believes that homosexuality goes against his religion.

Aoste, Isère

The pork products produced in Isère department and especially the Jambon Aoste (Aoste Ham) are manufactured exclusively in this Groupe Aoste factory which was owned by the industrial group Sara Lee Corporation who ceased their activities in deli products and resold the operation to the American buyer Smithfield Foods through which it passed to the Chinese group Shuanghui in September 2013.

Arequipan cuisine

Chairo is a beef broth marinated with yellow hot pepper, garlic, onion, spices, black chuño (a root), pieces of cured meat, tongue of lamb and patasca (a pork and corn stew).

Battle of Pork Chop Hill

Pork Chop Hill, itself, was one of several exposed hill outposts in front of the Main Line of Resistance (MLR), defended by a single company or platoon positioned in sand-bagged bunkers connected with trenches.

The first battle was described in the eponymous history Pork Chop Hill: The American Fighting Man in Action, Korea, Spring 1953, by S.L.A. Marshall, from which the film Pork Chop Hill was drawn.

Bite the cartridge

One of the alleged causes of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 were rumours that the grease on these cartridges designed to keep them dry was, variously, pork or beef fat (pork being abhorrent to Muslims, cows being sacred to Hindus), thus their refusal to bite them.

Bringing home the bacon

"Bringing home the bacon" was historically a reference to the winner of a marital fidelity contest who was awarded a "flitch" (side) of "bacon" (pork).

Bun cha

Bún chả is a Vietnamese dish of grilled pork & noodle, which is thought to have originated from Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam.

Chicken fried steak

Chicken fried steak resembles the Austrian dish Wiener Schnitzel and the Italian-Latin American dish Milanesa, which is a tenderized veal or pork cutlet, coated with flour, eggs, and bread crumbs, and then fried.

Chistorra

In the Aragonese Pyrenees there are two different sorts of txistorra; one of them made only of pork meat and another made of lungs, boned pig head and the pancreas, called berika.

Daniel W. Mills

He moved to Corwin, Ohio, in 1859 and engaged in the mercantile, grain-shipping, and pork-packing businesses.

Dongpo

Dongpo pork, Hangzhou dish made by pan-frying and then red cooking pork belly

Franconia

Food typical for the region includes Bratwurst (especially the famous small Nuremberger Bratwurst), Schäuferla (stewed pork shoulder), Sauerbraten, dumplings, potato salad (typically made with broth), fried carp, Obatzda (seasoned cheese spread), Presssack (a type of Head cheese: pressed or jellied pork trimmings, like tongue, cheeks, etc.).

Fried-brain sandwich

Feasting on Asphalt episode 2, "I Smell Pork." Originally aired August 5, 2006.

Fuzzy's Grub

It offers traditional British food, being essentially a take-away carvery, specializing in roast meat meals and roast meat sandwiches, as in a Sunday roast (Scotch roast beef, horseradish, roast potatoes, Yorkshire pudding, gravy, pork crackling, etc.).

Gyūdon

Yoshinoya moved its business to a similar dish made with pork instead of beef, which it named butadon (豚丼).

Jing Jiang Rou Si

Jing Jiang Rou Si (simplified Chinese:京酱肉丝; traditional Chinese:京醬肉絲; pinyin: Jīng jiàng ròu sī), Sauteed Shredded Pork in Sweet Bean Sauce,

John D. Dingell, Sr.

He had also engaged in the construction of natural gas pipelines, was a wholesale dealer in beef and pork products and an organizer and trustee of Colorado Springs Labor College.

John W. Langley

Langley was elected in March 4, 1907 as a Republican to the Sixtieth and to the nine succeeding Congresses where he became known as "Pork Barrel John." He served as chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Sixty-sixth through Sixty-eighth Congresses).

Kongbap

Ričet, a European barley, bean, vegetable and pork stew also sometimes associated with prisons

Larb

The consumption of larb and lu made with raw pork has led to several cases of human Streptococcus suis infections in Thailand, some of them with a deadly result.

Lechón

Lechon or Lechón, a pork dish in several regions of the world

Lucanica

Apicius documents it as a spicy, smoked beef or pork sausage originally from Lucania; according to Cicero and Martial, it was brought by Roman troops or slaves from Lucania.

My Name Is Mud

The video features Claypool playing the character of Abercrombie speaking directly to the camera, intercut with footage of the band performing outdoors, silhouetted by sunset, and scenes of Bob Cock visiting a health spa, at which he takes a mud bath and sits in a crowded sauna before accepting and drinking a glass of Pork Soda, referencing the album of the same name.

Omnibus spending bill

Often, omnibus spending bills are criticized for being full of pork (unnecessary/wasteful spending that pleases constituents or special interest groups.).

Pachamanca

Pachamanca is a traditional Peruvian dish based on the baking, with the aid of hot stones (the earthen oven is known as a huatia), of lamb, mutton, pork, chicken or guinea pig, marinated in spices.

Pljeskavica

Leskovačka pljeskavica (pljeskavica from Leskovac) is one of the most famous types and is usually made of beef or pork, very spicy and served with onions.

Pork pie

This was alluded to in a Labour Party broadcast during the 1997 UK general election, entitled 'John Major's Pork Pie Factory'.

An annual competition is held in April at The Old Bridge Inn, Ripponden, Yorkshire to find the best pork pie.

Pork pie hat, so called because of its resemblance to pork pies.

Pork ribs

McDonald's McRib patties contain pork meat mostly from non-rib sections of the hog.

Pork roll

The band Ween recorded a song 'Pork Roll Egg and Cheese' on their album The Pod.

Pork Tornado

Pork Tornado is a band co- founded in 1997 by Phish drummer Jon Fishman and Dan Archer record producer/engineer including Phishs "Lawn Boy" (guitar, vocals), Joe Moore (saxophone, vocals), Aaron Hersey (bass, vocals), and Phil Abair (keyboards, vocals).

Porkchop Cash

Floyd Womack of the National Football League's Seattle Seahawks received the nickname "Pork Chop Womack" from his mother because she thought that her son looked like Porkchop Cash.

Puchero

In Philippine cuisine, pochero is composed of the following ingredients: 1/2 kilo chicken, cut into parts, 1/2 kilo pork, cut into cubes, 1/2 kilo beef for stewing, cut into chunk cubes, 8 cups water 6 minced cloves garlic minced, 5 pieces Saba banana, 5 pieces boiled potatoes, quartered, 5 pieces boiled sweet potatoes, quartered, 4 pieces chorizo bilbao, 2 tablespoons oil,1 teaspoon salt, 1 bundle onion leeks,1 cup chickpeas, 1 sliced bundle cabbage and a Pinch salt & pepper.

Reading Terminal Market

One of the market's stands, Tommy DiNic's Beef and Pork, was featured on Travel Channel shows Man v. Food and Adam Richman's Best Sandwich in America.

Saint-Esprit, Quebec

The main agricultural activities include tobacco and Sugar Maple cultivation, milk production, and breeding of lamb, pork and poultry.

Smithfield, Virginia

Currently, Smithfield Foods, a Fortune 500 Company that owns Smithfield Packing Company and others, is the world’s largest pork processor and hog producer.

Spare ribs

In County Cork, Ireland, pork or beef spare ribs are boiled and eaten with potatoes and turnips.

St Briavels

Today the Pavilions hold a very popular and well established monthly 'Local Produce and Suppliers Market', a local farmers' market offering a fine selection of organic vegetables, rare breed pedigree pork, award winning local cheeses, cider, wine, honey and a range of delicacies otherwise usual to London's specialists, Fortnum & Mason.

Valladolid, Yucatán

The typical dish of the region is “Lomitos de Valladolid” which is a pork dish in fresh tomato sauce; Cochinita pibil meat marinated in achiote, which comes from the Bixa orellana bitter orange, and spices, wrapped in Banana leaf and barbecued or baked in a pit; "lechon al horno", "bistek de cazuela", "relleno negro" which is turkey cooked with a paste of charred chillies and vegetables with bits of hard-boiled eggs, "frijol con puerco" and chicken in escabeche.

Wallchart

The subjects of later wallcharts included Pork and Apples, and Private Eye, perhaps doubting the usefulness of these items, satirised the growing trend with spoof advertisements for wallcharts on "Britain's Best-Loved Wasps" and "Britain's Favourite Wallcharts" as well as a cartoon depicting "Hadrian's Wallchart" (subject: Barbarians).


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