"They are continuing to run an energy hog that is very inefficient".
He had tried this once before, on a small scale, and ended up with a hog that weighed eight hundred and fifty pounds.
Before the demonstrations degenerated into a street battle between police and protesters, Hoffman and Yippie cofounder Jerry Rubin unveiled Pigasus, a boar hog that would serve as the Yippies' presidential candidate in 1968.
Even though Tim Carroll's production cuts the mad Queen Margaret who curses Richard as an "elvish-marked, abortive, rooting hog", that still leaves plenty of other people with scores to settle.
Decked out in a black apron on a recent Sunday afternoon, Mr. Swanstrom, 27, slipped a six-inch boning knife into the carcass of a 275-pound Berkshire-Duroc hog that was splayed out in two large hemispheres on a table inside Local Pig, a butcher shop in this city's industrial East Bottoms area.
Slab bacon is taken from the side or belly of a hog that has been cured for 10 14 days under refrigeration, then cooked and smoked; it contains streaks of lean and fat, and one side is usually covered with skin.
