To: chajin
Well, they were still there, but they were disguised with burkahs.
And when there was a merry mixup, no one could tell the difference.
20 posted on
09/27/2014 4:43:03 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
I wonder if the attitude towards Iberian pigs in Muslim-ruled Spain was similar to the attitude towards wild boar in Edo-era Japan. In Japan, Buddhist priests were supposed to not eat meat, but they could eat fish/seafood, so they would catch wild boar and call it yamakujira, or "mountain whale," thereby breaking Lincoln's rule that calling a dog's tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. It wouldn't surprise me if Iberian pigs were cooked and eaten as "Andalusian goat" or some such absurd made-up name.
21 posted on
09/27/2014 5:11:24 PM PDT by
chajin
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