[Closed] So some firemen saved some pigs and subsequently got sausages made from them..

Yup.
Apparently the sausages were delicious.

I'm going to have sausages for lunch now.

Take that veggies!

Sounds reasonable - can't even see this as a "story"

Rachel

I'm a firefighter and am currently eating a sausage butty. Not sure I would eat sausages made from pigs I had rescued though. Saying that, probably would if I was hungry.

Radio 2 sees it as a story 🙄

As a farmers son we didn't eat lamb during lambing that was it...

Apparently it's a moral issue 😆

Radio 2

There's the problem!

The Greenfell Tower victims must currently be sh*tting themselves!!

Since getting sheep I don't eat lamb anymore 😥

I agree it's a none story but can appreciate why oeople are up in arms. What's next? Cat burgers made from a cat rescued from the top of a tree? Granny burger made from... well. You can see the theme developing. 🙂

People are stupid.

Should the pigs suddenly become pets because they survived a fire!?

It's a story because it has a delicious irony innit, much like the apparently delicious sausages they enjoyed.

I don't eat meat but realise that others do.

If they'd left them another 10 minutes they wouldn't even have to cook them.

Some pigs not surviving a fire, pictured recently.

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Seems like they wasted hard working British tax payers money on avoiding having a free hog roast.

Having just been quoted the price of said hog roast, I say heads should roll....

Reality Outrage!

Most folks think the shop Iceland is actually the island Iceland.

So actually it was actually "out of the fire and into the frying pan" all along

out of the fire and into the frying pan?

EDIT: Damn! Beaten by 37 seconds. (GSOH Zokes)

tomhoward - Member

I say heads should roll....

I say sausages should roll...

Mmmmm...sausages...

dougiedogg - Member

And people are outraged!

Is that not what the pigs were raised for?

To be fair, it's a big shock to people when they learn that sausages don't grow in tescos.

When I was around 11 I was with my dad when we called in to a pig farm so he could see how the damping down was going. It had been rather well alight the night before and it's not a sight or smell I shall easily forget!

When Harvey's brewery in Lewes had a fire they brewed a special beer to celebrate the event and the work of the fire brigade in saving the brewery. A good few bottles of that were distributed to the firemen. Better than a sausage any day.

I'm outraged that we are assuming people are actually outraged by this outrage.

The only issue I have with this story is I ended up spitting toothpaste all over my bathroom mirror when I heard it on the radio this morning

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Were the outraged people vegetarians or vegans? Would it have been OK if the farm had given the firefighters sausages made from different pigs?

I think there was a vegan on the phone in. They were ethically outraged.

What, sausages don't grow on trees? 😯

If I saved a {insert edible animal here}, I'm not sure how comfortable I would be eating it at a later date. Especially if each pig was named while alive and a label was put on each individual sausage to say which pig it was part of...

You'd be more outraged if you knew which parts of each pig were in your sausage.

beefheart - Member
You'd be more outraged if you knew which parts of each pig were in your sausage.

Lips, hooves and arseholes.

Tasty, though!

Great thing about pigs is that you can eat pretty much everything but the oink.

Especially if each pig was named while alive

We name all our pig club weaners. It's usually something sympathetic like Chop or Loin mind. 😆

Lips, hooves and [b]arseholes[/b].

Isn't the arsehole just a hole? How many holes do you get in the average sausage?

Classic conflict of interest - I'm surprised the revenue haven't been after them given the generally humourless world we now live in.

A few people moaned on social media, that's all.

It's social media - what do you ****ing expect? BBC should be above this kind of crap.

Since getting sheep I don't eat lamb anymore

You've realised how much more tastyful mutton is??

Smoked sausages?

The Greenfell Tower victims must currently be sh*tting themselves!!

That made me proper lol 🙂

beefheart - Member
You'd be more outraged if you knew which parts of each pig were in your sausage.
Lips, hooves and arseholes.

Tasty, though!

Great thing about pigs is that you can eat pretty much everything but the oink.

Subject to a debate about the status of fish and molluscs I haven't eaten meat for 32 years and I can't see any thing to be outraged or even mildly irritated about in this.

I found it a bit odd that she'd served the pigs they saved, I'd also love a job where I had time to cook sausages.

I found it a bit odd that she'd Service the pigs they saved

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I hope that was a predictive text fail.

Rebecca Loos?

I also failed to edit it in time. 😳

I'd also love a job where I had time to cook sausages.

From talking to a firefighter mate of mine there does seem to be quite a bit of dossing around, playing pool/cards/practical jokes, eating, sleeping that goes on when they are not on actual shouts or doing training/maintenance etc.

Cushy job apart from the crap pay, grim work and possibility of being burned alive.