Why is the pig on the bacon package smiling?

[SoGone]

It doesn't help that he's wearing a chef's hat.


Assuming you over in Europe know about Thanksgiving and turkeys, the other day I saw an inflatable Tom Turkey that smiled and waved (you know, like those insipid inflatable snowmen and Santa Clauses that speckle people's yards). I hate those things and the people who buy and display them.

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This will be an american thing right????!!!!.... Smiling pigs in chef's hats???? Tom Turkey??? You don't do acid by any chance do you???!!! (either that or some other hallucinogenic stimulant)!!!!....

[SoGone]

You mean, over in the UK you don't have the brand of bacon that has the smiling pig???

You can't see it that well in this picture, but it's in the lower left corner:

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Sugardale bacon???!!!... Never heard of it!!! It has to be danish bacon to be the best!!!!... Anyway maybe we should stop talking about this, we don't want to upset sun!!!!

[SoGone]

Isn't that part of the point (to upset sunshine)?

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no, sun is ok.... it's this Andrew guy that's the pain!!!!

[SoGone]

Yeah! Ban him!

[mark]

hmmmm - but where's the captain when you need him???!!!!

[SoGone]

He's tired of dealing with spammers and bad posters.

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who are the bad posters btw???

[SoGone]

I hear that Andrew guy has bad opinions and an annoyingly verbose posting style.

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Well he definitely talks rubbish 99% of the time but it would be kinda quiet without him - with only sun and a few emoticons for company!!! It's like one extreme to nother around here - you writing out your thesis and sun writing in one word/one emoticon answers!!!

[SoGone]

Well, you know what they say about variety.

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