Posted on 09/27/2014 1:49:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Spaniards love their pork. I’ve always wanted to try “lardo”, a smoked bacon like delicacy that is supposed to be very delicious. I havent found anybody that imports it.
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Micro-evolution stopped moving the species forward...???
Gee, at least evolution could have made the bacon tastier...if that is possible...
Amazon sells Lardo:
The 16th is now "ancient?"
There wouldn’t have been any pigs in Iberia from the 600s until perhaps the 1100s, for reasons that I suspect could be guessed by anyone here.
Just like 60 is now a “senior citizen.”
There were pigs in Iberia. Not all of the peninsula was conquered, and there were some places that were under the Arabs for only a short time.
Hey, if I had a 500 year old pig, I’d consider it ancient. And of course, it would be kinda mean to eat it at that point.
Our wild pig here in the Southern US is descended from the Iberian hogs brought by the Spanish to Florida and the Southwest.
And most of the population even in Moslem ruled areas was Christian, so there were pigs.
There are churches that have been in continuous use through the Moslem occupation. There is even a Catholic rite (a version of the liturgy) that is native to the Moslem ruled Christians and is official to this day, the Mozarabic rite.
Short time is relative.
Even Zaragoza, in the far north, was Moslem for 400 years.
Nearly all of Spain was Moslem controlled for at least 200 years. Only small areas, and those remote and poor, were never conquered.
there are also pigs (wild) in the Golan.
500 years = “ancient” ??
Asturias was never conquered, and other parts of Northern Spain were conquered briefly, reconquered many years later when a different band of Arabs swept through, and then in many cases were simply vassals - that is, they paid trribute (in money, goods or young men and women) but were ruled by their own kings and did not follow Islamic law or customs. Pigs abounded...
That's not the way Ezekiel Emmanuel sees it. That pig is over 75, it's not contributing, it's gotta go.
He ate altogether too much.
Well, they were still there, but they were disguised with burkahs.
And when there was a merry mixup, no one could tell the difference.
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