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muckefuck ([personal profile] muckefuck) wrote2008-12-03 08:49 pm

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A very special boyfriend is one who knows just what to say to you when you come home after a long day.

In this case, it was, "You can peel the hamhocks if you like."

[identity profile] richardthinks.livejournal.com 2008-12-04 03:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Adam Smith, IIRC, only wrote about beef, but his conclusion was that it must be the finest thing, since all the greatest and most enlightened people surrounded themselves with it.

But then, he was a Scot. Had he been a middle-European (or Chinese), pork would certainly have been the common coin of the Wealth of Nations.