BONUS VIDEO: Pork Chop Party Fund - mental_floss on YouTube (Ep.210.5)
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Apr 3, 2025
BONUS VIDEO: Pork Chop Party Fund - mental_floss on YouTube (Ep.210.5)
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All right, Mike, before we even talk about this one, I gotta put a quarter in the staff pork chop party fund
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Xavier offers a history of the pig in America, with a special reference to the city of Cincinnati, otherwise known as Porkopolis
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The class looks at swine from their arrival with Columbus to current meatpacking issues
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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
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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
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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
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or dead. Legend has it that in 1894, stockbroker Lemuel Benedict drank some tequila and ended up with
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a hangover. He wandered into the Waldorf Hotel and requested poached eggs, buttered toast, bacon
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and Hollandeau sauce. and then constructed what is now known as Eggs Benedict
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Oh, did someone mention bacon? We are ever closer to our staff pork chop party
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This bag of groceries is often called a sack of groceries in the South, or even less commonly, a poke
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as in pig in a poke. Pig! Staff Pork Chop Party Fund
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Speaking of hunting, beat around the bush has been around since at least the 1400s
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when hunters would literally beat bushes to scare birds or boars out of hiding
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Wait, did someone say boars? Time to put another quarter in the Staff Porkchop Party Fund
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Those statistics, by the way, come from the National Turkey Federation, which is apparently a thing
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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
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When E.B. White was once asked why he wrote Charlotte's Web, he responded with a two-and-a-half-page
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letter about spiders in his barn and pigs. Wait, did someone say pigs
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Time to put a quarter in the staff pork job party fund. Man, that's some pig
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Before he became a famous author, by the way, Sandack illustrated Mrs. Piggle Wiggles's farm
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which I bring up entirely because somebody just said, Two quarters in one video, what is it my birthday
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The 1909 book Passing English of the Victorian era, a dictionary of heterodox English slang and phrase
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captured some great phrases that were falling out of favor even back then
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For instance, they called sausages Bags O Mystery, which they are. Meredith, what kind of sausages
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Pork sausages? Yep, another quarter for the staff pork chop party fun
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And Scrapple, which is all the parts of the pig that you usually don't eat
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like heart, head, etc. broiled, then mushed up, then, made into a loaf with cornmeal
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It's like meatloaf except disgusting. Did I just say pig? Time to put a quarter in the staff pork chop party fund
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Oh, and we forgot the quarter for chitlin. Gomershek is a German word that refers to excess weight gain from emotional overeating
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It's literal translation, grief bacon. That's another 25 cents toward the staff pork chop party
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If you like meat puns and frankly who doesn't, look no further than the Spam Museum in Austin, Minnesota
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It's also affectionately referred to as the Guggenham, the Porkopolis, And the MoMA, or Museum of Meat-themed awesomeness
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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
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