PORK, it’s the meat of kings. It’s made from pig – try it with onion rings. PORK sure goes with everything, 'coz It’s made from swine that’s why it sure tastes fine.
Name the countries that consume the most pork per-capita.
Funny.. almost all of these countries are in Europe, and yet the two countries that are not in Europe are so far the only two that everyone has guessed.
You can try to look it up if you want to. I got the information from FAOSTAT. It's not in a neat and easy-to-read list format like on most Wikipedia pages.
I knew Austria and Germany had to be at the top of the list (the Wiener Schnitzel, Schweinebraten, etc.), haha. I also knew my home country (Slovenia) had to be on the list because a lot of people over here really do eat pork a lot (I personally don't like it all that much, but yeah).
The only two I missed were Vietnam and Cyprus. I'm actually surprised about Cyprus. Since there is a substantial Turkish population there (and they're muslim, so they weren't supposed to eat pork), I just assumed there was no way it could ever be on the list.
Surprised how neighbouring countries such as Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia are so far from each other in consumption of pork. I thought the culture in those was similar too? Another that might be explained by religion differences or something is Montenegro - Macedonia. Guess which one I included in my guesses? :)
I think so many are in Europe because 1) 1st world countries eat more meat in general, 2) there's fewer people with religion limiting it, 3) Countries like USA, Australia, Japan have a bigger variety of meats (and seafoods) available to them or then beef is cheaper in general as well?
I live in NYC, not exactly a food desert, yet it's very difficult to find veal and lamb, let alone rabbit or duck. Beef and chicken reign supreme and sadly crowd everything else out.
I was only in Montenegro for a few days so I don't really know, but I know from spending time in many other Muslim countries that in some places they are strictly observant about halal dietary rules and in other places really not so much or not at all. Given how heavily pork features in most European cuisine, and how secular most of the Muslims I met in the Balkans were, it wouldn't surprise me if those in Montenegro fell into the latter category.
I knew Austria and Germany had to be at the top of the list (the Wiener Schnitzel, Schweinebraten, etc.), haha. I also knew my home country (Slovenia) had to be on the list because a lot of people over here really do eat pork a lot (I personally don't like it all that much, but yeah).
The only two I missed were Vietnam and Cyprus. I'm actually surprised about Cyprus. Since there is a substantial Turkish population there (and they're muslim, so they weren't supposed to eat pork), I just assumed there was no way it could ever be on the list.
I think so many are in Europe because 1) 1st world countries eat more meat in general, 2) there's fewer people with religion limiting it, 3) Countries like USA, Australia, Japan have a bigger variety of meats (and seafoods) available to them or then beef is cheaper in general as well?
Bacon and sausages butties, Pork with Sunday dinners. I thought we'd be there for sure.