Let's talk pigs.. they get a raw deal. All y'all and your bacon jokes, bacon lip balms, bacon ice cream, bacon donuts.. you get the picture.
A pig is not bacon.. no! It's a wonderful animal. Check out some of these pig facts!
"Pigs snuggle close to one another and prefer to sleep nose to nose. They dream, much as humans do. In their natural surroundings, pigs spend hours playing, sunbathing, and exploring. People who run animal sanctuaries for farmed animals often report that pigs, like humans, enjoy listening to music, playing with soccer balls, and getting massages.
Pigs communicate constantly with one another; more than 20 vocalizations have been identified that pigs use in different situations, from wooing mates to saying, "I'm hungry!"
Newborn piglets learn to run to their mothers' voices and to recognize their own names. Mother pigs sing to their young while nursing.
According to Professor Donald Broom of the Cambridge University Veterinary School, "[Pigs] have the cognitive ability to be quite sophisticated. Even more so than dogs and certainly [more so than human] 3-year-olds."
Pigs appear to have a good sense of direction and have found their way home over great distances. Adult pigs can run at speeds of up to 11 miles an hour.
Professor Stanley Curtis of Penn State University has found that pigs can play joystick-controlled video games and are "capable of abstract representation." Dr. Curtis believes that "there is much more going on in terms of thinking and observing by these pigs than we would ever have guessed."
Pigs are clean animals. If given sufficient space, they will be careful not to soil the area where they sleep or eat. Pigs don't "sweat like pigs"; they are actually unable to sweat. They like to bathe in water or mud to keep cool, and they actually prefer water to mud. One woman developed a shower for her pigs, and they learned to turn it on and off by themselves.
In his book The Whole Hog, biologist and Johannesburg Zoo director Lyall Watson writes, "I know of no other animals [who] are more consistently curious, more willing to explore new experiences, more ready to meet the world with open mouthed enthusiasm. Pigs, I have discovered, are incurable optimists and get a big kick out of just being."
How wonderfully wonderful! Now, GO - Sponsor a pig!
Now, we're going to save a couple pigs in our redux of a popular christmas breakfast.. "The Christmas Casserole"
Largely filled with eggs and meat, we're going to conjure up a casserole filled with Vegg and vegan 'meat'. And you know what? It's going to be AWESOME.
This is part one in my two part series of 'Christmas day food ideas'... Obviously, we'll start with breakfast. It IS the most important meal of the day!
Let's do some numbers:
Christmas Casserole Wilbur's Holiday Jumble
Calories - 577 384
Total Fat - 26 12
Cholesterol - 173 0
Sodium - 1015 707
Total Carbs - 13.4 9.6
Fiber - 0.5 8
Protein - 21.5 8.9
WW Pts - 10 4
Okay!
Now, I'm not sure when this is going to go down. I'm thinking Sunday sounds good to make a breakfast brunch, eherm.. for myself I guess. However, there is always Saturday when I go to the who knows what number annual Fuqua Holiday Cookie Bake-Off. Wonder if the family would be willing to give this holiday jumble a try? We'll see.
For now.. it's time to concoct the perfect recipe.
Remember - go love some pigs!
Music enjoyed while blogging:
Sheri's Shoobop
Current Craving:
Indian food - moreover, mushroom matar.
Current Motivation:
I got nothin'.
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