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I especially enjoy it on a gold platter carried by four dwarves and served by a naked albino girl who slices it with a crystal sword and releases the live doves from inside of it.
The only way I would find a suckling pig disturbing is if the host said no seconds. I mean, something SOOOO good, you just have to have seconds (even if you really don't need them).
I have served it several times over the decades, and there are always some people who can't stand the thought of it. America has both the most adventurous and the pickiest eaters in the world. In the interests of peace and harmony, don't let the two factions dine together.
Since there is never enough meat on a roast suckling pig, the abstainers do us all a favor.
The flesh of a young pig is sweeter than the older porkers. However, it is the chef who must deal with watching the little oinker turn brown, basting it every 20 minutes or so. It looked a bit like a little puppy sleeping for a bit, but I quickly banned that thought...and turned the pan around so I could see its snout and ears.
I am about to order some wild shrimp with their heads on. I guess I am just a terrible American, I like real foods, not watered down, factory farm versions of things.
Not disturbing in the slightest. I am an omnivore and as such eat meat. I eat animals. Animals have faces and feet. Some of them even began their pre-meal lives being rather cute and fluffy. It would be rather hypocritical to still want to eat meat but refuse to accept where it comes from.
Suckling Pig tastes gorgeous. As long as it was humanely reared for it short life then I have no problems with it.
A neighbour of mine will quite happily eat chicken mc nuggets ( goodness knows what conditions the chickens have been reared in) but refuses to eat chicken on the bone because it reminds her of its origins. I do find that really quite pathetic.
count me in with those that think it tastes great and have no aversion to it.
I'm under no illusion to where my food comes from. Could be my country upbringing, but it's a part of it.
Pig roasts were very popular where I grew up. Would start the day with some breakfast and setting up the party. People would then drink, eat, play games, etc until the meat was gone. Then at night usually have a bonfire. Next morning you'd come by and help clean up.
My brother has uncles in law that are farmers. They are of mexican descent, but it's still pretty much the same. This year he went over and shot a small pig. After it was shot he pulled aside his one son who was old enough to deal with such things to help clean it and work on preparing it. They got to eating it right away and did more of a mexican preparation, but not a bit of the animal was wasted right down to the skin.
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Suckling Pig
