October 9, 1983
Today we
made sausage for the first time. We took
a 4 lb. pork roast from the fridge to use for the experiment. Larry cut the meat from the bone while Sarah
watched (she was 4). He showed her the
bone which had a ball and socket joint. She knew it was from a pig leg and played with
it, pretending to make it walk. Off and
on while we were busy making the sausage, she would go back to the bone and
walk it across the cutting board. Later,
Sarah went outside and when she returned, she announced, “Mom, I saw the pig,
too bad he wouldn’t stand-up so I could see his broken leg.” I then realized what she’d been thinking –
this bone and accompanying meat had come from our pig out in the barn and she
went out there to see what it would look like with its “broken leg”. We then explained that the meat we used was
from a pig we had previously butchered and that the pig in the barn was still
getting around on all 4’s.
(Sarah was about 4 in the picture.)
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