BONUS VIDEO: Pork Chop Party Fund - mental_floss on YouTube (Ep.210.5)

All right, Mike, before we even talk about this one, I gotta put a quarter in the staff pork chop party fund

Xavier offers a history of the pig in America, with a special reference to the city of Cincinnati, otherwise known as Porkopolis

The class looks at swine from their arrival with Columbus to current meatpacking issues

Meatpacking issues. We don't know exactly how hogshead came to to be the name for a measurement of wine, 63 gallons of it to be exact, and I don't think

we want to know. Oh, that reminds me. Every time I mention hogs, I have to put a quarter in the staff pork chop picnic jar

If you've got two hogsheads, that's called a pipe or a butt. So when someone tells you that they drank a buttload last night, they are either lying

or dead. Legend has it that in 1894, stockbroker Lemuel Benedict drank some tequila and ended up with

a hangover. He wandered into the Waldorf Hotel and requested poached eggs, buttered toast, bacon

and Hollandeau sauce. and then constructed what is now known as Eggs Benedict

Oh, did someone mention bacon? We are ever closer to our staff pork chop party

This bag of groceries is often called a sack of groceries in the South, or even less commonly, a poke

as in pig in a poke. Pig! Staff Pork Chop Party Fund

Speaking of hunting, beat around the bush has been around since at least the 1400s

when hunters would literally beat bushes to scare birds or boars out of hiding

Wait, did someone say boars? Time to put another quarter in the Staff Porkchop Party Fund

Those statistics, by the way, come from the National Turkey Federation, which is apparently a thing

I mean does every animal have a national federation Because my campaign starts now to get on the board of the National Pig Federation What that Did I say the word pig Time to put a quarter in the staff pork chop party fund

When E.B. White was once asked why he wrote Charlotte's Web, he responded with a two-and-a-half-page

letter about spiders in his barn and pigs. Wait, did someone say pigs

Time to put a quarter in the staff pork job party fund. Man, that's some pig

Before he became a famous author, by the way, Sandack illustrated Mrs. Piggle Wiggles's farm

which I bring up entirely because somebody just said, Two quarters in one video, what is it my birthday

The 1909 book Passing English of the Victorian era, a dictionary of heterodox English slang and phrase

captured some great phrases that were falling out of favor even back then

For instance, they called sausages Bags O Mystery, which they are. Meredith, what kind of sausages

Pork sausages? Yep, another quarter for the staff pork chop party fun

And Scrapple, which is all the parts of the pig that you usually don't eat

like heart, head, etc. broiled, then mushed up, then, made into a loaf with cornmeal

It's like meatloaf except disgusting. Did I just say pig? Time to put a quarter in the staff pork chop party fund

Oh, and we forgot the quarter for chitlin. Gomershek is a German word that refers to excess weight gain from emotional overeating

It's literal translation, grief bacon. That's another 25 cents toward the staff pork chop party

If you like meat puns and frankly who doesn't, look no further than the Spam Museum in Austin, Minnesota

It's also affectionately referred to as the Guggenham, the Porkopolis, And the MoMA, or Museum of Meat-themed awesomeness

Wait a second. Did someone just say Guggenham and Porkopolis? That means they get to put two quarters in the staff pork chop party fund