I had neighbors in the LA area years ago who roasted pig in the ground just like this. Very delicious.
They did have a big backyard. LOL
Nothin' like whole-cooked hog.
>>I had neighbors in the LA area years ago who roasted pig in the ground just like this. Very delicious.<<
During the last part of Carter’s administration, a neighbor in the Riverside area & I each raised a butcher pig in his backyard. I had the garden, chickens, rabbits, and ducks in mine; and the neighbor on the other side of me had our community steer, and more rabbits, in his yard.
Pig neighbor decided to pit roast his, instead of sensibly cutting & freezing it.
Fortunately, his butcher father was there when he dug it up. His dad & I very quickly cut & grilled the under done porker on three charcoal grills, literally saving his bacon.
Rooky mistake, he hadn’t gotten the pit nearly hot enough before burial; fortunately, it was hot enough that it hadn’t putrefied yet; but it would have, if we’d let let him rebury it, ‘to cook awhile longer’.