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Originally Posted by eg1 
Pardon my pig-ignorance, but where is this happening? I am guessing France, but which region? Gascony?
I worked in a meat-packing plant for 4 summers (plus weekends in winter) when I was in high school. Swine/Cattle walked in and went out on hooks or in boxes. Not quite the same thing as this little peasant adventure, to be sure, and precious little about "respect" for the pigs ... that was an education in more ways than one not soon to be forgotten.
Maybe I'm too recently escaped from "the land" (in my case, rural New Brunswick) to see this sort of thing untainted by a whiff of Marie Antoinette in a milk-maid's dress -- but that's a reflection of my own cynical peevishness rather than any failing of Matt's or his family.
Ugh, do our pettinesses ever subside?
I worked in a meat-packing plant for 4 summers (plus weekends in winter) when I was in high school. Swine/Cattle walked in and went out on hooks or in boxes. Not quite the same thing as this little peasant adventure, to be sure, and precious little about "respect" for the pigs ... that was an education in more ways than one not soon to be forgotten.
Maybe I'm too recently escaped from "the land" (in my case, rural New Brunswick) to see this sort of thing untainted by a whiff of Marie Antoinette in a milk-maid's dress -- but that's a reflection of my own cynical peevishness rather than any failing of Matt's or his family.
Ugh, do our pettinesses ever subside?
hopefully nobody in real life finds me here 
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