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Okay, we all know(I hope)Bonsai kittens is a prank website. But, back in the 70's I remember seeing photos of SQUARE PIGS. They were supposedly placed in crates when young and eventually grew too big and formed into a square shape. I'm guessing for easier packaging, more tender ham, convience for the farmer, or people are just sick? Does anyone know if it was true or did I see a doctored photo?
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Only "squarity" that I'm aware of is the watermelon.
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13 down: Socially conservative police officer? hmmm... who the hell thinks of these weird clues S____E___ socially conservative... straight... solid... square! three letter word for police officer... cop? Nah then I get nonsense for 7 across... pig? SQUAREPIG it fits Weirdest crossword puzzle answer ever.
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Here's something about a movie featuring square pigs, but it's a lot more recent than the 70s.
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Back in the 1970s in the UK there was a brief 'thing' about square - or rather cubic - tomatoes made to grow that way by putting a form around them. I can't remember which TV show, but it went alongside "how to amaze your friends by getting an apple inside a bottle" (by fastening a bottle on the tree so the apple grew inside it). That was back in the days when TV assumed we all grew our own fruit and veg and had an apple tree in the garden (which my family did). We were even shown how to amaze our friends by making cubic boiled eggs.
The square pig sounds like a TV show April Fools prank like BBC TV's spaghetti harvest show (Panorama?).
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I remember something I read a long time ago about square eggs (and no, I'm not talking about Lost In the Andes).
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I went into a pub once and there was a jar of square pickled eggs behind the bar - just didn't look right, tasty though, smelly bags were had by one and all.
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Come on guys, I really did see photos of pigs they kept in wood crates until the pig took on a box shape. Hasn't anyone else? I've been searching but can't find anything about it. Help Posts: 22 | From: Las Vegas, NV | Registered: Jan 2006
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Square eggs are easy, just crack them into a square form and then boil them.
I've even seen tubular eggs, where the white and the yolk is separated, poured into two concentric tubes boiled lightly then the inner tube is removed. This way, you can slice them without getting the all white snips at the end of each egg.
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quote:Originally posted by Troberg: I've even seen tubular eggs, where the white and the yolk is separated, poured into two concentric tubes boiled lightly then the inner tube is removed. This way, you can slice them without getting the all white snips at the end of each egg.
Almost correct. You start with filling the white into the space between the two tubes and pass boiling water through the inner one. When the white has coagulated enough you remove the tube and fill the space with yolk and continue boiling.
A Swedish newspaper once had an article about this, but for some reason nobody believed it. Possibly because it was entered on April 1st.
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quote:Square eggs are easy, just crack them into a square form and then boil them.
Really? Because I could have sworn they came from cuboid chickens...
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quote:Originally posted by Troberg: Square eggs are easy, just crack them into a square form and then boil them.
Or you start with a freshly boild egg and place it in an egg cuber.
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quote:Originally posted by Llewtrah: (...) "how to amaze your friends by getting an apple inside a bottle" (by fastening a bottle on the tree so the apple grew inside it).
Like this?
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I would think the square melons would be easier to carve for those amazing fruit artists...
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I'm betting the square pigs live next door to the boneless chicken ranch.
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I'm sure they have done this at some point in time - where do you think the expression "Fitting a square pig into a round hole" came from?
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quote:Originally posted by Bad Ronald: I'm sure they have done this at some point in time - where do you think the expression "Fitting a square pig into a round hole" came from?
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That's a weird looking picture. But if you could keep pigs in a crate and make them square then wouldn't veal be square too?
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quote:Originally posted by TuFurg: From the square melon article:
quote:Each melon sells for 10,000 yen, equivalent to about $83. It is almost double, or even triple, that of a normal watermelon.
Isn't $30-$40 a bit steep for watermelons? Wow.
Summer of '04, I saw a $100 cantaloupe in Fukuoka, Japan. Of course, it came in a gift box...
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quote:Originally posted by Angel With Wax Wings: That's a weird looking picture. But if you could keep pigs in a crate and make them square then wouldn't veal be square too?
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Veal doesn't come from pigs
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Here is another (worth1000) picture of a square pig.
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LMAO!! No, Rexodus. This was an actual photo with article about 1970+ Way back in the bronze age, we didn't have pc's. You had to know something about 35mm cameras to hoax photos, and the pigs weren't hairy Posts: 22 | From: Las Vegas, NV | Registered: Jan 2006
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