Funny Picture Thread [14]
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I agree, turkey is not as tasty as pork. Too bad the custom demands turkey. In the Middle Ages when Greece was occupied by Ottoman Turks, in the island of Crete they deliberately ate a lot of pork because Muslim Turks could not confiscate it. So they used to eat pork rather than turkey (which was virtually unknown in Greece then) on Christmas. This custom is kept up until recently. My mother is from Crete and she remembers that my grand mother was always cooking pork on Christmas.
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I agree, turkey is not as tasty as pork. Too bad the custom demands turkey. In the Middle Ages when Greece was occupied by Ottoman Turks, in the island of Crete they deliberately ate a lot of pork because Muslim Turks could not confiscate it. So they used to eat pork rather than turkey (which was virtually unknown in Greece then) on Christmas. This custom is kept up until recently. My mother is from Crete and she remembers that my grand mother was always cooking pork on Christmas.
It's not only on Crete. In England it's usually a bird (turkey, chicken, duck, or goose) for Xmas day and ham or pork for the day after.
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It's not only on Crete. In England it's usually a bird (turkey, chicken, duck, or goose) for Xmas day and ham or pork for the day after.
My grandfather (the husband of my Cretan grandmother) when asked what he would like for dinner replied "whatever you want, as long as it's pork"!
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My grandfather (the husband of my Cretan grandmother) when asked what he would like for dinner replied "whatever you want, as long as it's pork"!
That would have been dangerous if Grandma's name was Circe
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A Guy
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