Peppa Pig Puts Kids Off Pork

Latin Correspondent ^ | 28th January 2016

[nickcarraway]

Peppa Pig puts kids off pork by Latin Correspondent | 28th January 2016 229 SOCIAL BUZZ A traditional Colombian lechona. Photo: Pinterest.

A traditional Colombian lechona. Photo: Pinterest.

Peppa Pig, a firm favorite among kids across the globe, is causing uproar in one Colombian department.

Parents in the town of Ibagué, in the Tolima department, famed for its pork dishes and traditional gastronomy, are hitting back on social media over claims that Peppa is putting their kids off pork.

One of the region’s typical dishes includes Lechona, a whole roast pig stuffed with chick peas, rice, onions and spices – prior to being cooked in an oven for up to 12 hours.

“I stopped my kids from watching the program with that pig (Peppa), until one day at lunch time they started crying when they saw we were serving up Lechona,” Jorge González, a parent told Actualidad Panamericana.

“Ever since I was small I was told not to ‘play with your food’, so I was really worried in December when my kids asked me for Peppa Pig toys to play with, and weren’t interested in cooking.” Added another worried parent.

Head of the Tolima Police Department, Colonel Carlos Herrera explained that the force has received various complaints, asking for the sale of Peppa toys to be restricted and programs canceled. “We’ve had to explain on repeated occasions that the sale of these toys isn’t breaking the law, that we don’t have any control over national television channels.”

Officials have also expressed concern over the growing rate of mini vegetarians.

[nickcarraway]

[Calvin Locke]

My mother still talks about the whole pig-on-a-spit family party we went too back in the 1960s.

She made pork chops for Sunday dinner yesterday. But she more than 8 years old. Ten times more, plus.

[dfwgator]

[T-Bird45]

I worked on a hog farm in the summer of 1971. It got to where I didn’t care for bacon w/my eggs for breakfast. No problem after that, though.

[TigerClaws]

Muzzies in England were upset about Peppa.

[JoeProBono]

[dmz]

It got to where I didn’t care for bacon w/my eggs for breakfast.

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Sacrilege.

[txnativegop]

I never have understood the whole “apple in the mouth” thing.

[onedoug]

As for Jews there, their opinions don’t count. Little has really changed since Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” (1597).

[Dr. Sivana]

When we built our house in Illinois, I purposefully had a roast pig for our housewarming party. I wanted the children to understand at a young age that animals are food. I also brought the children to see the hung deer our neighbor killed. We got to eat some nice venison.

I knew that my messaging got through when my 6 year old daughter asked her mother in a low voice:

Mom?

Yes, dear?

Do people eat . . . bunny rabbits.

Why yes, they do.

Do they taste good?

Score!

[Lurking Libertarian]

I wanted the children to understand at a young age that animals are food.

When I was a young boy (Brooklyn, NY in the 1950s), my mother used to take me every Friday morning to the kosher chicken market, where she would pick out a live chicken and we would watch it killed and cleaned. She told me years later that she did it so I would know that food doesn't magically appear in butcher shops.