 What’s
the highest known price ever paid for a hog?
$105,000
is the highest price known to be paid for a hog, on
March 5, 1998, at the Houston Livestock Show. The
Grand Champion barrow exhibited by Brittany Muery, a
4-H member from Bastings, Texas, was sold to a group
of Houston businesses.
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 What
did President Harry Truman have to say about hogs?
“No man should be allowed to be president who does
not understand hogs.”
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 What’s
the origin of the saying “pork barrel politics”?
The phrase is derived from the pre-Civil War
practice of
distributing salt pork to the slaves from huge
barrels. By the 1870s, congressmen were referred to
as regularly dipping into the “pork barrel” to
obtain funds for popular projects in their
home districts.
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 Did
you know that...
As popular as pork is in America, it is not the
United States, but China, that is the number one
producer and consumer of fresh pork in the world. |
Did you
know that...
In
ancient China fresh pork enjoyed royal status.
Around 4000 B.C., the Chinese people were ordered
to raise and breed hogs by a royal decree from the
emperor of China. |
Did
you know that...
The ancient Chinese were so loath to be separated
from fresh pork that the departed were sometimes
accompanied to the grave with their hogs. |
What's the origin of the saying to “go whole hog”?
The expression came from the 18th century, when the
English shilling was at one time called a “hog.”
Thus, a
spendthrift, one willing to spend an entire shilling
on the entertainment of a friend in a pub, was
willing to “go whole hog.” |
Did you know that...
Pork is the world’s most widely eaten meat. |
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The
longest single sausage was over a mile long.