"gtr" > wrote in message news:2012062908442612622-xxx@yyyzzz...
> Not to offend the political vegetarians (though I doubt the proviso will
> take), but has any one eaten suckling pig? Perhaps at some noteworthy
> soiree or other?
>
> I never have, though I saw a few while working as a musician at events
> where we came in through the back door and were admonished never-ever-ever
> to speak to the clientele. The piglet always seemed pretty creepy layed
> out like that without any abstraction to cloak it as an animal to be rent
> assunder by the savages. Kind of like a holiday Turkey if you not only
> left the head, neck and feet on, but configured them to look
> "entertaining" with a plum in the beak or something.
>
(snippage)

I haven't personally eaten suckling pig. But I do remember when we lived in
Bangkok my parents attended the Marine Corps Ball. They "won" the
centerpiece, which was a whole roasted suckling pig. The "decoration" was
battery operated electric light bulbs where the eyes should be. They came
home from the ball (most assuredly drunk) and left the pig on the kitchen
table. At the time, they employed a live-in cook and a maid; they had
quarters with a kitchen & bath behind the house. When they came in the next
morning one of the women saw the pig on the table and started screaming. LOL
No one actually ate the pig. IIRC, my father cut it up and fed the meat to
our dog.

Jill