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What is a "pig's squeal"

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winesonoma

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It's the only part of the pig that you can't use I was told. :raz:

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It's the only part of the pig that you can't use I was told. :raz:

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No, it is the sound the pig makes.

The old joke is that every part of a pig can be put to use, as food or other uses, except the squeal.

Hog snout is a delicacy favored by many in the south and in Mexico.

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Hog snout is a delicacy favored by many in the south and in Mexico.

Also used in "souse" that Susan mentions above or in variations like head cheese or german/austrian sulz.

Also in the carribean dish, callaloo...

Basically, probably use in most 'peasant' or country cuisines that use pork.

Isn't there a french version of head cheese that is made-- pate de tete?

edited to add: Here a pate de tete

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No, it is the sound the pig makes. 

The old joke is that every part of a pig can be put to use, as food or other uses, except the squeal. 

Hog snout is a delicacy favored by many in the south and in Mexico.

Okay. Yes, every part of the pig can be used, even the snout. In Lyon, they make sure to utilize every part of the animal. So it's a word game?

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. So it's a word game?

ca va sans dire...

(just joking; I saw this phrase the other day in print and I'm trying to repeat it to myself for reinforcement in order to ressurect it at the right times w/my french-speaking friends.)

mais... oui.

in terms of the correct culinary term in english; I think it's just "pig snout"

Pigs's feet are called just that; or I think from an English derivation, "pigs trotters"

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It's the sound they make...  you know, kind of a joke, the only part that you can't use for food.  Apparently the snout is used in souse.

:smile:

Yes it's the old joke. The only part of the pig that you cannot use. :raz::raz::raz:

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Chefzadi, did one of your customers order pig's squeal today? :laugh:

Nah, I have to teach it. If a customer ordered it today I would go into the dining room with a cigarette dangling from my mouth and a pure carbon steel Sabatier in one hand....

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At the Oscar Meyer plant in Madison Wisconsin, the saying is: 'Everything but the squeal'! -Dick

I read somewhere that at the Spam plant, the saying is "Thank you Hawaii"

Spam musabi rolls anyone? :blink:

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At the Oscar Meyer plant in Madison Wisconsin, the saying is: 'Everything but the squeal'! -Dick

I read somewhere that at the Spam plant, the saying is "Thank you Hawaii"

Spam musabi rolls anyone? :blink:

This is beginning to remind me of a Roald Dahl story called "Pig" in which a boy sets off to pursue his culinary ambitions. He is served pork for the very first time...

Maybe it's what I imagined chefzadi's plans were with that Sabatier!

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Then of course there's the scene in the movie "Deliverance" where the Hillbilly asked for the"pig's squeal". :biggrin:  :laugh:  :raz:

I've never seen the movie. I'm a country boy at heart. French country boy to be precise. And even now if you visit my village it's like something out of a postcard or a painting. When I mention to my wife that we could move to the country in America she always brings up the movie "Deliverance". :laugh:

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Then of course there's the scene in the movie "Deliverance" where the Hillbilly asked for the"pig's squeal". :biggrin:  :laugh:  :raz:

I've never seen the movie. I'm a country boy at heart. French country boy to be precise. And even now if you visit my village it's like something out of a postcard or a painting. When I mention to my wife that we could move to the country in America she always brings up the movie "Deliverance". :laugh:

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