Citations:pigmeat

English citations of pigmeat

Noun: "the meat or flesh of a pig, used especially for food; pork"

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• 1954 — William Golding, Lord of the Flies, Penguin (1988), Perigee Books, →ISBN, page 151:

  A fire burned on the rock and fat dripped from the roasting pigmeat into the invisible flames.

• 1987 — P. V. Tarrant, "Discusion - Session II", in Evaluation and Control of Meat Quality in Pigs: A Seminar in the CEC (ed. P. V. Tarrant), Kluwer Academic Publishers (1987), →ISBN, page 238:

  Pigmeat is unique among fresh meats for the large number of electrical and optical probes designed to measure pork quality.

• 1993 — Simon Louvish, The Silence: Another Levantine Tale, Interlink Books (1993), →ISBN, page 70:

  My zealous co-religionists always suspect, on El Al in particular, that they are being served pigmeat as part of a secular Zionist conspiracy to condemn their souls to limbo.

• 1993 — Paul Wexler, The Ashkenazic Jews: A Slavo-Turkic People in Search of a Jewish Identity, Slavica Publishers (1993), →ISBN, page 176:

  The use of non-kosher food in magic is a clue that the practices were of non-Jewish origin, and suggests that the prohibition against consuming pigmeat may not always have been maintained in the European Jewish communities.

• 1994 — Andrew Bergman, Sleepless Nights, Donald I. Fine (1994), →ISBN, page 49:

  The tropical smells of rice and beans and roasting pigmeat suffuse the halls and the lobby.

• 1995 — George Reigel, "Updates", Field & Stream, September 1995:

  The real purpose of this exorbitant barrel of pigmeat is to placate West Virginia politicians who complain their state doesn't get enough pork.

• 2000 — Robert Ackrill, Common Agricultural Policy, Sheffield Academic Press (2000), →ISBN, page 140:

  Of the commodities illustrated, the only one not supported heavily by the EU is pigmeat.

• 2000 — China Miéville, Perdido Street Station, Del Rey (2000), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  The militia tore down the swinging, dripping carcasses of goat and pigmeat and yanked at the suspended conveyor-belt of hooks until it ripped from the damp ceiling.

• 2001 — Lee Langley, Distant Music, Vintage (2002), →ISBN, page 299:

  'Oh, Gideon, you know why. I do think that on the day you're taking the kosher plunge you should keep off the pigmeat.'

• 2006 — Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development, Agricultural and Fisheries Policies in Mexico: Recent Achievements, Continuing the Reform Agenda, OECD Publishing (2006), →ISBN, page 132:

  The progressive termination of subsidies given for the use of feed products increased costs of production, and reduced some incentives to pigmeat production.

• 2008 — Philip Garcia, Raymond M. Leuthold, & Thorsten M. Egelkraut, "Issues and research opportunities in agricultural futures markets", in Debt, Risk and Liquidity in Futures Markets (ed. Barry A. Goss), Routledge (2008), →ISBN, page 81:

  Aulton et al. (1997) investigated the efficiency of three UK futures markets and the results provide evidence of long-run efficiency for wheat and pigmeat, but not for potatoes.