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Originally Posted by cfrizz
What pray tell is sidemeat and cracklin cornbread?
"This area that I live in is overrun by feral hogs, though"
Well then why don't you go hunting, you've got free bacon for a year!
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Originally Posted by GA Russell
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I'm not a hunter. I'm not interested in killing animals for sport for one reason.
I think that the meat of feral hogs is probably tough, due to the kinds of things that they eat out in the woods. Maybe with the right kind of preparation, it would be tender enough.
Too, when it comes to feral pigs, the hunter easily can become the hunted. A son of a friend of mine went out with his huntin' dogs to hunt feral pigs one night. One of those pigs tore up one of his big, bad hunting dogs so badly that it cost a small fortune at the veterinarian to get the dog fixed up. If you see a picture of one of the feral pigs, you'll see why they're so dangerous--for one thing, they have some scary
tusks.
One quick comment about cornbread, for the benefit of non-Southerners. It is another food that started out as the fare of poor Southerners. Back in the day, many people could not afford wheat to make that kind of bread, and for some reason it wasn't grown in the South (still isn't, I am not sure why--maybe because of the heat?). "Everyone" grew corn, however, and if they didn't they could buy it cheaply at the store. Thus, the popularity of cornbread (I don't know if it originated in the South or not). Cornbread didn't require wheat (and IMHO authentic cornbread
never has wheat in it (nor sugar!)).