Pork chopped: Rick Perry takes heat for barbecue blast

Los Angeles Times ^ | September 27, 2011 | Robin Abcarian

[PJ-Comix]

Reporting from Greenville, S.C. — Rick Perry is learning all kinds of ways that words can come back to haunt a guy.

There’s his famous “Ponzi scheme” remark about Social Security from his book “Fed Up!,” which former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has used to bludgeon the Texas governor in their last couple of debates.

And now Perry’s in hot water in North Carolina for a remark he made all the way back in 1992, when he was Texas agriculture commissioner and Houston was hosting the Republican National Convention.

[DTxAg]

Reasonable people lose their collective minds.

Amen.

[Rutabega]

I snorted so loudly that I had to explain to my two tweens all about the business. :) hahaha!

[Rebelbase]

"it ain’t the meat, it’s the method."

"That's what them short-rib feller's say".

[CobraJet]

Barbequed whole, it looks like a terrier dog.

[Hugin]

Taste varies greatly with wild hogs. A lot has to do with what they've been eating. Here in CA you get very lean, sweet meat from younger pigs in the winter when they are eating a lot of green grass. In the fall, pigs that are eating barley are especially fat and tasty. Medium sized sows are the best tasting. A lot of people go out to shoot a big, tough old, testosterone filled trophy boar, then tell everyone how awful wild pigs taste (and smell).

[CobraJet]

Possum on the half-shell

[IMR 4350]

Wild pig taste great if you know what your doing.

You have to trim all the fat off most of the time because the fat can have the taste of what the pig was eating.

If the pig has been eating acorns, it’s bitter like an acorn. You can’t cook around bitter, so trim it.

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[mnehring]

Actually barbeque isn't barbeque unless it is pork.

We need to get you down to Texas, STAT. Q here is beef and nothing but beef. We have our own pork, we call it a whole hog roast, but it doesn't classify as Texas BBQ. Ribs are called ribs, pork butt is called butt, but only Beef Brisket is called BBQ here.

And by the way, what is up with those mustard or vinegar sauces(sic) you call BBQ sauce?

[mnehring]

Most feral pigs are nasty (as opposed to wild hog which is good). Feral pigs also carry a lot of parasites. In some areas of East Texas, they have gotten so bad, we have hunting parties out on people’s farms but we just leave the ones we shoot for the buzzards.

[RegulatorCountry]

Odd that Rick Perry, of all people, would bring up roadkill in a political context. I suspect he has that taste in his mouth rather frequently of late, lol.

Of course, we Tarheels wouldn't rightly know what roadkill tastes like. Maybe Mr. Perry should seek out and compare notes with someone who does.

Rudy Giuliani, maybe.

[luvie]

Texas BBQ is very different from southeastern BBQ. I understand where he was coming from. :)

I guess I like both kinds, but prefer BBQ’d beef. REAL BBQ, not just boiled meat with some sauce poured over it.

Just sayin’......

[mnehring]

:->

[yarddog]

This was in Florida. My neighbors had a pack of dogs and all the dogs had scars and cuts but the neighbors somehow avoided being cut. They would wait until the dogs had them bayed then run in and grab the hogs by the hind legs.

One of the reasons they penned them for a few months was to get the boar taste out of them after they were de-boared.

I did eat bacon once from a wild boar and it had a strong taste that I did not like. If I was hungry it would have been OK though.

[mnehring]

It could be worse, remember Huckabee admitting to cooking squirrel in a coffee pot at college? Them Arkansas people are weird.

[luvie]

He’s just snoozin’. :)

[Hugin]

Here in CA, we’ve had feral hogs ever since the Spanish came. Then in the 1920s someone introduced wild Russian boar to hunt on their ranch near Big Sur. Now pretty much all the hogs are hybrids, which are very tough, disease resistant and tasty. Best of both worlds, as it were. IIRC, the feral pigs have 36 chromosones, the Russian boar have 38, and the hybrids have 37. They can all interbreed.

[yarddog]

Any high quality meat, cooked well and seasoned properly will naturally mean good eating.

Being from the South tho, if it isn’t pork, it just isn’t real barbecue.

[Allegra]

Seriesly?

Is anybody really trying to make an issue of this?

LOL

[mnehring]

The feral pigs in East Texas (and a lot of other areas of the South) are very different. They are first or second generation from the farm and generally rut in swamp and backwater areas.

We do have wild hogs and other wild pig species that is what you are describing. The feral pigs I’m referring to is a recent, and nasty infestation almost like rats.