Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Zingerman's Praise the Lard Gift Box

The whole roasted pig and my very prim and proper friend's wedding. Fantastic.

cyberroo at 3:19PM on 12/21/08

Pork belly at Bouchon in Vegas. So succulent.....

Jeana at 3:22PM on 12/21/08

First pig roast at our son's 2nd birthday party.

finsbigfan at 3:23PM on 12/21/08

BBQd pork ribs at my Uncle's...

Pork sausage...

Anything bacon...

too many fond memories to choose from

LauraJ at 3:27PM on 12/21/08

cooking bacon daily for the entirety of the summer of 2004, for blts, fried green tomato sandwiches with bacon, straight bacon, etc etc, so that both house and body were infused with a bacon-y essence all summer long.

eater at 3:34PM on 12/21/08

I love my BBQ'd ribs....LOVE 'EM!

SueZeeQ at 3:34PM on 12/21/08

Helping to butcher an entire hog from start to finish. Amazingly, I craved pork immediately after.

kyle25 at 3:42PM on 12/21/08

The first time we butchered pigs

beanish at 3:43PM on 12/21/08

My fondest memory is the first time I ever tried chinese roast pork (with the crispy bubbly skin with a thick layer of fat under neath the skin). It was amazing and I've been a big fan ever since.

ag3208 at 3:45PM on 12/21/08

The one and only time my family butchered a pig we had the greatest fresh sausage I've ever tasted.

LUCRETIA at 3:45PM on 12/21/08

I haven't had pork ribs since my father passed away in 1993. He never wrote down the recipe for his sauce. Dad would always shovel a path of snow from the patio door to the grill in the middle of winter so he could make them all year round.

shuffer at 3:47PM on 12/21/08

My first taste of pork belly, at Vidalia in D.C., a few years ago. It was an epiphany!

chanterelle at 3:49PM on 12/21/08

grandma used to make swiss cheese, bacon on onion roll sandwiches- ok not very healthy but yummy becuase she coated it with lots of bacon

sandy89 at 3:51PM on 12/21/08

mom making bacon adn french toast- it was great

thumber at 3:53PM on 12/21/08

I just had an amazing bacon cheeseburger. Maybe it is a little boring, but when it is perfectly medium rare, with cheddar melting over the bacon, it really is a hard lunch to beat.

brittj8585 at 3:54PM on 12/21/08

The first time I went to a pig roast...a co-worker of my stepmother had one every year on her farm-like property in rural Maryland. Gorgeous setting, GORGEOUS pig! ;-)

Since then...snout @ the Big Apple BBQ Block Party...pork belly w/fermented black beans at my favorite Sichuan restaurant...and then some. I hate to say it, but I think my Jewish genes crave it more than some other people! Heehee

Curlz at 3:56PM on 12/21/08

On Sunday mornings before church my mother would put a pork roast smothered in saurkraut in the oven to slowly cook. When we got home the house would smell so GREAT! she would serve it with mashed potatoes and corn. that was the best pork ever!

debiwelbon at 3:58PM on 12/21/08

Thick bacon Sunday mornings at Grandmas

susan1215 at 3:59PM on 12/21/08

I love the peppercorn thick bacon slices my mom always bought at the deli. She cooked then with a huge bacon press to keep the slices nice and flat and cook them thoroughly! YUM

ImaDevlsh1 at 4:01PM on 12/21/08

Sunday dinner with ham, potato salad, black eyed peas and cornbread. With sweet tea, or course.

herrinfamily at 4:01PM on 12/21/08

Pork at a Luau on Maui.

karen r at 4:01PM on 12/21/08

My fondest pork memory is the Brady Bunch episode when Peter Brady says, "Pork chops and applesauce." Thanks for the giveaway!

cmgnbox01 at 4:02PM on 12/21/08

Turkey, mash potatoes and corn,

sbetancourt at 4:03PM on 12/21/08

whole, pit roasted pig on the summer solstice.

laila at 4:03PM on 12/21/08

The one I will have when I win this contest.

caleb at 4:03PM on 12/21/08

Headcheese ravioli made from my own mulefoots.

Mike Sula at 4:04PM on 12/21/08

Hawaii, luau, sixteen years old.

captunderp at 4:05PM on 12/21/08

Tossing apples to the porkers at my aunt's house.

lisagee at 4:07PM on 12/21/08

Eating barbequed pork ribs for the first time. It was so yummy and messy.

annemarie56 at 4:10PM on 12/21/08

my first whole hog roast at Church

veggieout at 4:11PM on 12/21/08

Tete de cochon at TFL

palmsey at 4:11PM on 12/21/08

beating my uncle at our rib "throwdown" challenge this summer.

valser at 4:12PM on 12/21/08

When my grandmother would make pork sausages and bacon for breakfast.

HappyHusky1 at 4:13PM on 12/21/08

The Rib BBQ celebrating my 40th birthday. The next day, there rib bones strewn for blocks around, and many happy dogs.

paints at 4:14PM on 12/21/08

Going to a pig roast as a kid roasting a whole pig

mmiller at 4:15PM on 12/21/08

Last night's spaghetti broccoli rabe carbonara, with home-cured guanciale. Cheeky!

dikaryon at 4:17PM on 12/21/08

Discovering kalua pork while on vacation in Hawaii, and coming home to recreate a decent version. Brought home 4# of Hawaiian sea salt just for this.

dulcey11 at 4:19PM on 12/21/08

Running the Pine Mountain Trail in Georgia followed by a huge plate of chopped pork and fresh pork rinds from Whistlin' Pig BBQ.

wedge at 4:20PM on 12/21/08

An early date with my ex-husband (married 30 years) when he and friends roasted an enormous pig. Best meat I've ever tasted. May have influenced my decision to marry and have two children, so I'm blaming my incredible daughters and my boorish husband on a pig.

PerkyMac at 4:21PM on 12/21/08

Helping my grandma make pork sausage when I was a child.... every step straight from scratch!

inkystuff at 4:21PM on 12/21/08

My favorite pork moment was the first time I attempted to cook a Pork Tenderloin. I called my mom every 5 minutes to get instructions. She lived over 600 miles a way but I called her over 20 times. It was almost as good as cooking it in her kitchen. It turned out excellant. It melted in your mouth it was so tender. It continues to be my specialty and I cook one for every Holiday or Pot Luck Supper I go to.

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moonshadow43 at 4:21PM on 12/21/08

Learning how to make homemade pork sausage links form my grandmothers.

dbaxgirl51 at 4:22PM on 12/21/08

Sunday pork roast with the whole family.

Pierogi at 4:23PM on 12/21/08

Farm cured Tennessee country ham cooked in the oven in a covered pot with coca-cola, sliced thin and served on biscuits.

Oh to have those days back again...

johncb at 4:24PM on 12/21/08

Recreating my grandfather's beloved dining hall food: bacon, peanut butter and mayonnaise sandwiches.

MegB at 4:26PM on 12/21/08

The BBQ pork ribs at our wedding reception. The food turned out perfect.

mnsteph at 4:26PM on 12/21/08

Eating a roast sucking pig. Mmm...

cochon at 4:30PM on 12/21/08

really good bacon

dobbsgirl at 4:33PM on 12/21/08

I was 8 and decided I wanted to be like the 'cool' kids and go vegetarian. Then my father said that meant I couldn't have bacon and ham for breakfast, items that topped my egg sandwich everyday since I was 5. I didn't know that was meat but I knew it was the most delicious thing I put in my mouth... I was never cut out for the cool crowd anyways.
PORK RULES!!

zeekar at 4:33PM on 12/21/08

The first time I made ribs that didn't taste like cardboard. Slow cooking does wonders!

wizzy at 4:34PM on 12/21/08

my mom making homemade pulled pork

chromiumman at 4:35PM on 12/21/08

Bacon and eggs for breakfast, when I was 5.

gb944 at 4:37PM on 12/21/08

I remember going to the butcher shop with my father--and listening to him talk to the butcher about all the different types of homemade sausages they had in the shop--one could almost drool just hearing the descriptions.

Suekey at 4:38PM on 12/21/08

I have two pork related memories. The first, for my 13th birthday I asked to go out to a restaurant called Rodizio's, a sort of Brazilian meat grill place. It was the first time I ever had turkey wrapped in bacon. Probably the first time I had ANYTHING wrapped in bacon. I can recall how animal fats just exploded from that two-species agglomeration. It was really thrilling, and proved to me that meat could go well beyond cold cuts and roast.

The second experience would be having real Kalua pig. My sister used to dance with a Polynesian troupe, made up mostly of a family from the islands. Once every year they'd dig an enormous ditch in their backyard, special order the leaves, get a whole pig, everything. I've never had pork like it before or since.

HungryDaruma at 4:38PM on 12/21/08

I have many great childhood memories of pulled pork sandwiches at Pierce's Pit BBQ outside of Williamsburg. We'd go down to see the decorations close to Christmas most years and then hit the Pottery Factory and Pierce's. Somehow all three stops were required for it to be a good trip even though I'm seriously allergic to the eucalyptus that permeates the Pottery Factory.

rudbeckia at 4:39PM on 12/21/08

Grilling thick slices of pork belly in Flushing

plantainsandkimchi at 4:43PM on 12/21/08

I LOVE BLT sandwiches. I remember one particularly good one I enjoyed on Nantucket with really good white toast, crisp bacon, lots of lettuce and plenty of tomatoes. Was it ever GOOOOOD!

designingwoman at 4:43PM on 12/21/08

While I could be torn between a nice garlic-laden pork roast, some pulled pork from when I lived inn North Carolina, or a messy plate of ribs, my favorite pork experience is both simpler and a bit more unique.

My family is Hungarian-American, and for as long as I remember, our Fourth of July augmented the usual hamburgers and hot dogs with kielbasa and one of my favorite pork products. We "shoot soluna" - a central European version of fatback (smoked a bit) that is held over a wood fire until dripping, then allowing it to drip it on some good rye bread, upon which one might add some sliced tomatoes, onions, cukes, and peppers. And then, since I've become the prime shooter of the family, I take the veggie-laden bread back to the fire and drip a bit more of that lovely pork fat on the final assembly.

If you're interested, I've got a small flickr set devoted to the preparation of this delicacy.

fpatrick at 4:43PM on 12/21/08

Grilling pork belly (Korean BBQ style) in a small restaurant near Hongdae, Seoul.

g r a c e at 4:45PM on 12/21/08

My first Cuban sandwich ... pork delight!

poke87 at 4:45PM on 12/21/08

Baby luau kalua pig, straight from the imu. Mmmm.

piepie at 4:46PM on 12/21/08

grilled pork steaks with dry seasoning my mom made, so good.

cassnles at 4:53PM on 12/21/08

I will never forget a whole pig pork roast picnic someone held for a wedding anniversary party once. A small pig, on a spit...it was fantastic! Was a brave guy who decided to try it.

Granny Debra at 4:53PM on 12/21/08

My dad's BBQ ribs off the grill which is delicious!

yellowlabs at 4:54PM on 12/21/08

the men at our church roast a whole pig 2-3 times a year-women bring side dishes-it is so good

bison61 at 4:54PM on 12/21/08

When I was nine, my parents bought a piglet in the summer then had a butchering in the yard come fall. I avoided the carnage outside but stayed by my mom's side in the kitchen all day while she cut the larger pieces down and packaged them up for freezing and fed chunks through the grinder before seasoning the resultant mass for breakfast sausage. Into the oven went the fatty skin, and out of it came incredible smells all afternoon, and crunchy bits of cracklin's that eveing. We also cooked down a pot of applesauce and a fresh shoulder; supper for everybody was fresh hot pork, fresh hot bread and fresh hot applesauce. I will never forget that day! And all things porcine have been my favs ever since.

BobbieAnne at 4:54PM on 12/21/08

bak kwa during Chinese New Year

ahpek at 4:59PM on 12/21/08

My mom used to sing bacon song when she made breakfast on the weekends, I still sing it every time I cook bacon.

brandi at 5:00PM on 12/21/08

My favorite pork memory was my daughter's wedding rehersal-we had trays of bbq'd pork with all the "fixins" everyone loved it.

tiffnat at 5:02PM on 12/21/08

My sweetie and I roasted our first whole pig right after we left culinary school to move to the big city and invited all our friends. I got a lovely 40 lb porker from a chinese butcher a couple blocks from our new studio, and roasted it in the ground wrapped in banana leaves and burlap. It was smoky and spectacular, and with all of our culinary friends (and an instructor or two) and plenty of vino, it was surely a night to remember!
Oh, and brandi, if you see this, I must hear this bacon song of yours!!

Ravara at 5:06PM on 12/21/08

Roasting a 180 lb. hog on a spit with the neighborhood firemen...

czken at 5:07PM on 12/21/08

My fondest pork memory was when I chased that little greased pig at the fair and fell down when I went to grab him.

lawman228 at 5:08PM on 12/21/08

Eating crackly roast pork skin as a kid. At the Chinese butchers', they'd hang these huge roasted pigs from the ceiling and I'd ask my mom if it was possibly to buy just the skin and not bother with the meat.

marchpane at 5:10PM on 12/21/08

Eating BBQ ribs, at Powdrell's BBQ in Albuquerque N.M.

jword2001 at 5:11PM on 12/21/08

Eating Ham at Christmas!!

suann47 at 5:14PM on 12/21/08

Oh, the pork belly dishes that are running rampant on our restaurant menus right now... so good...

threedogkitchen at 5:14PM on 12/21/08

The first time I had Parma prosciutto

madball911 at 5:15PM on 12/21/08

pork, a few years ago i found pork loin on sale for $1.29 lb wow! i love sales.

vergie at 5:15PM on 12/21/08

the crispy skin from a whole spit roasted pig.

kathyvegas at 5:16PM on 12/21/08

eating bacon wrapped melon for the first time.

Brewer at 5:17PM on 12/21/08

BLT's during the summer for dinner.

dhorst at 5:20PM on 12/21/08

Bacon with pancakes in the morning is my favorite memory.

jkershen at 5:22PM on 12/21/08

My mom made an excellent pork tetrazzini when I was a kid, and I love pulled pork sandwiches in the summer with dill pickles and icy lemonade.
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5webs at 5:25PM on 12/21/08

We raised hogs and we would grind our own sausage with one of those old hand grinders. We also used that grinder for hamburger too. Mom's homemade sausage was so wonderful.

sonyasparks at 5:27PM on 12/21/08

My fondest memory would be anytime i could have ham instead of turkey

allancarol at 5:27PM on 12/21/08

The crunchy skin of Chinese roasted pig that's eaten on special occasions.

winkyj at 5:28PM on 12/21/08

I went to a place in the Poconos, Pa called Eggs in the Pan, and the restaurant served all of the meal in the skillet in which it was prepared. I still remember the amazing sausage and bacon nestled in the pan with the eggs.

cdziuba at 5:28PM on 12/21/08

Growing up in the hills, Dad would butcher a hog and we would have good fresh meat. Mother would can the meat to keep it from spoiling since we had no refrigration. I remember those days.

whataheyu at 5:31PM on 12/21/08

My fondest pork memory is of my Grandma making us BLT sandwiches, whenever we got the first couple of Jersey tomatoes for the season, from her garden.

peg42 at 5:33PM on 12/21/08

Two memories stand out: The ritual slaying and eating of a pig by all in a small hamlet outside Lyon, FR; and the first time I had a giant pork tenderloin sandwich at Smitty's Tenderloins in Des Moines, IA.

Rhetor at 5:35PM on 12/21/08

Roast pig at a country church benefit in Pennsylvania years ago.

Blue Iris at 5:37PM on 12/21/08

The best roast suckling pig in Puerto Vallarta, Mexica. OMG, juicy, rich; it was so so good. The funny thing about it though was the menu board; it said that the special that night was "Roast Sucking Pig"! We still laugh about it.

allisoba at 5:38PM on 12/21/08

The wonderful smell of bacon that would fill our house on Sunday mornings when I was growing up. Now if I want bacon I have to sneak off to a restaurant to get it.

Thanks

fluegas5 at 5:39PM on 12/21/08

The spare ribs at the late great Moy's, a tiny Chinese take-out place in a mini mall near my parents.... sigh.... Oh, and just about any time I've ever had bacon.

Tobster1 at 5:39PM on 12/21/08

pork tamales at the Tamale Festival in Indio, Ca.

toastworthy at 5:40PM on 12/21/08

Something I had from a street cart in Italy. I was afraid to ask what it was, exactly, but I can still taste it seven years later.

TheJTrain at 5:41PM on 12/21/08

My family camped a lot while I was growing up the smell of sausages and bacon cooking on a camp fire was wonderful.

:) Thank you for the wonderful giveaway! :)

tmim123 at 5:43PM on 12/21/08

Sitting on some grass outside the Coliseum eating some prosciutto, Parmesan and bread.

dadekian at 5:44PM on 12/21/08

My most vivid pork memory is walking to the country store down the road from us, in the snow, to buy some sausage for supper. The circumstances of thes event were that this was a real, honest to goodness snowstorm. This was in SOuth Carolina, and although we got the occational ice storm, heavy, non-iced snow was a real shock. Of course the roads were all closed, phones and power were out. But we had a fireplace and a oil burner in the basement with a flat surface on which it was possible to cook. So my Mom sent me out the the store for sausage. The propriotress lived next door to the store, and we were friends, so I stopped at her house for a visit and also bought her cwonderful, homemade country sausage and trudged back home wiht it in the snow. That night, we had sausage and grits with gravy. Mmmm.

A close second is my MOther preparing Virginia Ham. It took forever, with the cleaning, soaking preparing and baking. This was a whole ham, wrapped in burlap at the market. No water injected. And a smell of ham that would last for days. I havent' seen a Virginia Ham for years, and Iif I could find it, I know it would be out of the budget, but boy oh boy, ham and baked sweet potatoes. Mmmm!

lisaray at 5:49PM on 12/21/08

Taylor Pork roll, baby!

chuckjustice at 5:50PM on 12/21/08

My fonest pork memory is when I went to my first pig roast it was so good! Now my favorite sandwich is bbq pork! Boy I could go for one right now.

pbkup at 5:53PM on 12/21/08

my dad's bbq ribs every summer growing up

arielg at 5:54PM on 12/21/08

Chowing down on pork ribs at family picnics.

amburke1978 at 5:56PM on 12/21/08

The very first time I ate BBQ pulled pork at Richmond's High on the Hog festival. What a revelation!

iainswife at 5:57PM on 12/21/08

Once, when my mom and I hadn't had meat in several weeks (because we couldn't afford it) someone gifted us with a huge pork roast. My mom cooked it on the stove with sauerkraut and apples and it was nearly the best thing I'd ever eaten in my life. The best was chunks wrapped in bread as sandwiches over the next days.

kimonkey7 at 5:57PM on 12/21/08

My grandmother making biscuits with sausage gravy, fried apples, and salt pork for breakfast.

Juleemm at 5:58PM on 12/21/08

My fav pork memory is of my first pig roast and the kindness of a Southern gentleman who introduced me to eating pork "off the pig."

AsTheNight at 5:59PM on 12/21/08

My fondest pork memory-

would probably be the homemade biscuits and sausage gravy my grandmother used to fix EVERY single Saturday morning.
She made my entire childhood so awesome with her many traditions.

freakdujour at 6:04PM on 12/21/08

Wow, I never thought anyone would ask me to pinpoint my favorite pork memory! However, I do remember the Christmas party for my husband's work where we went to a neighborhood steakhouse. I had asked about 10 different people what they'd recommend and they all said "The pork chops!".

jkampf at 6:07PM on 12/21/08

pulled pork sandwhiches at my first job

ssultan23 at 6:08PM on 12/21/08

My fondest pork memory involves a lot of pulled pork at Penn State tailgates! Every year, my family and I head to the stadium with a huge pot filled with lucious, delicious pulled pork BBQ. Tailgaters from miles away drool with envy at the delicious pork! A tailgate wouldn't be complete without our yummy pork butt.

sarahbethe at 6:10PM on 12/21/08

the first time we smoked a shoulder in our smoker this summer, yum!

agordon10 at 6:12PM on 12/21/08

I made baby back ribs yesterday and they were amazing.

robotbill at 6:12PM on 12/21/08

The first time my now husband make Thanksgiving dinner, he just covered it in bacon and let it cook - sooooooooooo good and easy!

saphyress at 6:16PM on 12/21/08

Anytime I'm enjoying North Carolina barbeque!

janmarkel at 6:17PM on 12/21/08

I love pork. Raise out own in fact. My favorite pork memory would be the whole hog roast we had in honor of my highschool graduation.

samf363 at 6:20PM on 12/21/08

After my uncle came home from Viet-Nam and got married, he constructed a hog lot on his property and named the two yound sows that he started out after his mother (my grandmother) and his mother-in-law...those pigs got loose at some point and the talks for decades was that those monster pigs were still rootin' around loose in rural Union County.

cptbob at 6:21PM on 12/21/08

my son makes slow cooked smoked ribs. absolutely wonderful. also my mom would make baked ham with mustard glaze and cloves also a wonderful memory

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bfordy at 6:23PM on 12/21/08

The whole hog roast we were invited for when I was 4.

brooke29 at 6:23PM on 12/21/08

My friend Carlos' matanza during which we ate a whole pig that he had slaughtered the day before to celebrate receiving his PhD.

hannah_phi at 6:31PM on 12/21/08

When i was stationed in Hawaii I went to a freinds wedding where they served a whole roasted pig. It was fantastic. that was over 35 years ago & I'll never forget it.

EDRing at 6:33PM on 12/21/08

my fondest pork memory is as i am of polish descent, and it's our new years day meal-- it's always roast pork and sauerkraut, with sides. it's a thing we do every year, and as i grew up, i continued their good luck meal. my children are grown now, and they also keep up the tradition. it always brings fond memories of our familyhere and past.

etrnlone at 6:33PM on 12/21/08

I have so many. my newest favortite best memory is the new smoker that we got this past spring. It isn't a huge investment but it gets the mister out of the house and making the BEST pulled pork (shoulder) smoked ribs, you name it, we ate it this past summer. if this winter wasn't so cold believe me he would be out there making Christmas pork memories!

my brother is leaving for Iraq in June and my step mom has already asked us to prepare and bring the Mac n Cheese (my specialty) and 20 lbs of pulled pork!!

thanks for the chance!

kagey10 at 6:35PM on 12/21/08

Lived next to some real southerners who gave me a great memory of pit roasted pork barbeque - the whole experience- the guys, drinking beer all night long as they tended to fire in the pit (freshly dug for the occassion) where the pig was roasting. When it was done, the next day, the women took over with hand pulling the pork and cooking all the "fixings". What a feast it was!!!

LindaY at 6:36PM on 12/21/08

The first bite of my mom's "kalua pig" (really just picnic pork+ginger+soy sauce+kosher salt). Well, that or the bacon-wrapped lil' smokies, baked with brown sugar. Either one...

teancom at 6:39PM on 12/21/08

The first time I had pork chops with applesauce when I was little. I now make them with apple slices and onions but the memory is still the same.

drala625 at 6:40PM on 12/21/08

Grandma's braciole - the best.

cmp45 at 6:45PM on 12/21/08

My daughter loves bacon. One time I put the bacon on the table while I was finishing up the eggs. I turned around and found that she had eaten the entire pound of bacon by herself!

theamira at 6:51PM on 12/21/08

The crisp, porky, golden, fried side meat mom used to make for breakfast. Yum.

charlesr19 at 6:52PM on 12/21/08

oh there are so many...but one fond porcine memory of relatively recent vintage stands out...the joy of biting into the pulled pork po'boy at New Orleans Jazzfest this year, after waiting in line for it in the pouring rain...I think the waiting, the smell, the whole scene just heightened the porky excitement. Even damp it couldn't dampen my enthusiasm for its yumminess!!

jinx35 at 6:54PM on 12/21/08

it has to be the huge crown roast of pork my grandmother used to make for new year's day!

beaujangles at 6:54PM on 12/21/08

I can't pinpoint the exact instance, but having grown up in a kosher household, it has to be the first time I had bacon--oh how I realized what a deprived childhood I had! I have made up for this in the ensuing years :)

alanbar at 6:57PM on 12/21/08

Lechon on the beach in the Philippines. Oh sweet piggy!

lawman at 6:58PM on 12/21/08

Ham has been at almost every gathering and holiday since I was little. Almost every holiday memory I have includes pork!

dewer421 at 7:04PM on 12/21/08

My mother's Sunday dinner in the winter..delicious!

elaine nan at 7:05PM on 12/21/08

bacon on the beach!

tmbronk at 7:05PM on 12/21/08

Making bacon brittle for our Super Bowl party last year.

jcwest47 at 7:05PM on 12/21/08

Not sure I have a found memory of pork, but I love the many memories I have during cookouts, in which we make ribs..

trippyjanet at 7:07PM on 12/21/08

Aaaah, my first pig roast ...

pittypatty at 7:07PM on 12/21/08

I remember the smell of bacon at my grandma's farm every morning I was there. She fryed up alot of bacon every day probably a pound. Yumm.

malleycc at 7:10PM on 12/21/08

When I discovered that real ham doesn't come in a can. Though I did appreciate my mother's holiday care packages that included a canned ham. Along with packages of JellO. Z

Michael Z at 7:11PM on 12/21/08

at my favorite restaurant, they serve a sandwich that's roast pork with bacon -- ahhhh, double pork! yum!

mrshendu at 7:13PM on 12/21/08

home made pork dumplings

piehole at 7:16PM on 12/21/08

Twice in two years in Korea, we had a full pig on the spit - with a professional cook - it was outstanding!

JonsDad at 7:16PM on 12/21/08

Most recent- freeze dried then deep fried iberico pig fat and cavatelli with porchetta de testa at Incanto. Go there!

michellelikestoeat at 7:17PM on 12/21/08

Bacon, eggs and biscuits with sugar syrup with my grandparents!

tesashel at 7:20PM on 12/21/08

My first pig roast when I was 9...mmmmm!

stayintreed at 7:21PM on 12/21/08

My best pork memory just came from about a week ago actually. I finally got around to trying this new BBQ joint and it is the best pulled pork I have ever had, I can't wait to try their ribs next time :)

elangomatt at 7:23PM on 12/21/08

Besides the first time I found "bacos" in the kitchen cupboard, it has to be having Lechon for the first time. That crispy, cracklin skin, and that succulent pork meat.

I just drooled on the keyboard.

eastcoastvb at 7:27PM on 12/21/08

I was on work travel in Houston with a friend from California. We were referred to a well know steak house and the pork chops were recommended. The waiter asked if we wanted to share an order and we looked at him oddly and said "no thanks". He just smiled. When dinner was served, we each received a pork chop about 5 ribs high. Best pork I've ever had in my life and every time I'm in Houston I make sure to visit there.

Aisling at 7:27PM on 12/21/08

Kind of short on profound pork memories but I'd be glad to have the opportunity to make one if I win :)

janecooks at 7:31PM on 12/21/08

Accidentally having 6 different bacon infused dishes for Meatfest...haha!

uninorth at 7:37PM on 12/21/08

a whole pork on the platter with orange in its mouth, on new year's eve

MajaMeza79 at 7:38PM on 12/21/08

My Mom's friend is a large hog farmer. My favorite pork-related memory is seeing the auction bill that included a prize porker named after my Mom, and another named after my sister. Not the traditional flattery...

jayfr at 7:40PM on 12/21/08

to this day my dad still cooks the crispiest, best-tasting bacon ever.
...
even if it's just the pre-cooked kind.

aidank at 7:43PM on 12/21/08

my Moms yummy pork roast and the gravy she made from the drippings!

heavenlydonny at 7:44PM on 12/21/08

Fried Taylor Pork Roll sandwiches made by my mom for lunch on a Saturday afternoon.

suladuck at 7:47PM on 12/21/08

I have to say that having little bits of bacon crisp up with potatoes in the oven is my favorite dish ever almost

gibbylet at 7:50PM on 12/21/08

Double smoked bacon from the German butcher, sizzled up crispy on sunday morning with eggs over medium fried in the bacon grease...it's like S-x for breakfast

taoistpunk at 7:52PM on 12/21/08

When I was a graduate student, one of my fellow grad students raised pigs when he wasn't writing his dissertation. I raised money to buy one for the local soup kitchen, and then scraped together enough to buy half of one for myself and had it all turned into bacon and ground pork. That was some of the best bacon ever, and I had food in the freezer for a good long time.

mcmvoices at 7:55PM on 12/21/08

On our 15th anniversary, we visited friends on Maui. It was New Year's Eve so they dug a big pit, lined it with leaves and rocks and built up a fire. After dumping in a whole hog, they covered it up and it roasted all day. That made the BEST pulled pork I've ever eaten in my entire life! Ah, pork: MEAT CANDY!

riceburns at 8:02PM on 12/21/08

My favorite "pork memory" is from when I was a child and the neighborhood 4th of July pig roasts we had every year. Those were the good ol' days. Thanks!

mistyriver at 8:03PM on 12/21/08

well i love to win this and well i love all kinds of pork and well i think a pig rost is realy neet i go to a pig rost like 2 times a year in the summer time and well at the rost we also have ribs and well any thing you can think of that has to do with a hog any way pleasenter me info this thanks

jenny9675309 at 8:05PM on 12/21/08

first time i tried spanish chorizo

carusoc at 8:06PM on 12/21/08

our first rib cookoff this past summer.....5 entries....I came in second to my brother...who I coached! Last time I do that! lol

mepolo at 8:08PM on 12/21/08

When I was a teenager my mom cooked a boston butt pork roast. The aroma had us all slathering at the mouth. I don't know what made it so special, but to this day I try to get that same great smell.

CarolHarrity at 8:10PM on 12/21/08

Making cochinita pibil from the recipe on the Once Upon a Time in Mexico DVD.

rockfish42 at 8:16PM on 12/21/08

a whole BBQ roast pork at my brother's high school graduation party.

Boy was it good

zekks at 8:17PM on 12/21/08

favorite pork memory

I roasted a whole pig
for a hawiian bbq

alot of work but worth it

routewrecker at 8:18PM on 12/21/08

The last time I had bacon. Or maybe the next time. Okay how about anytime bacon is involved.

andysophiemom at 8:18PM on 12/21/08

My favorite memory is of going to my first pig roast. I'd never been to one and it didn't sound appealing to me at all. But the pork was delicious as well as the other food.

estelle at 8:19PM on 12/21/08

the first time i ever discovered "burnt ends" in Austin Texas

hoff_83 at 8:24PM on 12/21/08

My fondest pork memory? Roasting a whole pig at our school in 5th grade. Mmmmmm.

iahawk89 at 8:27PM on 12/21/08

The salt cured hams we used to get from my grandfathers free-range pigs.

nvtribefan at 8:29PM on 12/21/08

whole pig roasted in the ground at pototoe day

taintnoflatlander at 8:32PM on 12/21/08

Pork rules.... When I was a child, we used to have family reunions at my Aunt's house (which was a beachhouse). She would order a roasted pig for the occasion. The people who sold the pigs would arrive with the pig in a stick, dig a hole in the sand, where they would put coals, wood and plantain leaves. They would then set the pig and roast it (by turning it) for about 12 hours. It was the most delicious food ever! I have never tasted anything as good as that.

vdeliz at 8:33PM on 12/21/08

A double-blind bacon taste test!

winnekat at 8:34PM on 12/21/08

My grandfather's yearly pig roast, right after Labor Day. Nothing like seeing your dinner alive the day before you eat it.

scaevola at 8:34PM on 12/21/08

Waking up every Sunday to my Dad making the family Mexican chorizo. Yummm!!!

easagredo at 8:35PM on 12/21/08

My fondest memory of pork is every time my husband breaks out his smoker!! He smokes great pulled pork...mmmm...
THANKS!

twoundertwo at 8:35PM on 12/21/08

Favorite pork memory: My Mom cooking me birthday dinners as a child using her recipe for stuffed pork chops...they were the best !!!

brianpiero at 8:36PM on 12/21/08

My favorite pork memory is our Christmas morning tradition of eggs, bacon, and sausage. The pork is really the highlight.

rffoodie at 8:37PM on 12/21/08

My first pig roast. The food was awesome.

cherierj at 8:38PM on 12/21/08

My fondest pork memory is of the last item I ate it. I love pork and eat it at least once a week. I will take pork over steak any day!

tlcfromtn at 8:40PM on 12/21/08

Growing up on a farm, we raised hogs. I remember the first hog I "raised" with the help of my dad. I remember all the work, feeding them, watering them even in the winter. It seemed like an awful lot of work for nothing at the time. Then I remember eating the first pork chop from that hog and wow! It was all worth it. I've been a fan every since!

Traumajunky at 8:41PM on 12/21/08

My first proper jalapeno sausage in the hill country.

adrockuw at 8:42PM on 12/21/08

My fondest pork memory goes back to the first time I ate pork. Coming from a Kosher household ... having never eaten pork ... I ordered a roast pork on garlic bread sandwich. I sat there looking at it for 5 or 10 minutes before daring to take a birte. And, when I did ... it was delicious!

pixframe at 8:46PM on 12/21/08

I grew up on a farm. Every year we would slaughter a hog, and make our own sausage. It was great!

bhjustice at 8:46PM on 12/21/08

After being a vegetarian for almost my whole life...tacos of carnitas in a hole in the wall that served nothing but carnitas, crackling in big metal pots. It was just outside of Toluca, Mexico. I. love. pork.

supersissy at 8:47PM on 12/21/08

Waking up to the smell of bacon on a cold winter morning. The aroma always reminds me of my mom and home as a child.

kathryne4 at 8:48PM on 12/21/08

Turning the handle on the sausage stuffing machine when my dad would make homemade sausage. We all had jobs to do. My brother was in charge of tying the strings around the links My sister had to wash and put the casings on the machine and I was the official stuffer.

Marilouise at 8:49PM on 12/21/08

anytime i eat pork rinds!

Eddie at 8:49PM on 12/21/08

Carnitas at a little Mexican place in NJ.

derosa at 8:49PM on 12/21/08

4th of July family picnic

bonnieann at 8:53PM on 12/21/08

Whole fresh ham (with the skin on) rubbed with garlic and seasoned salt,
slowly rotating on a rotissoire over a charcoal or gas grille flame and breaking off and eating pieces of the crispy skin while it's roasting.

bobbyd105 at 8:54PM on 12/21/08

My first trip to Bike Week In Laconia NH, pig roast and .....well, I can't discuss it here, let's just say I had a good time.

eyzofblu63 at 8:54PM on 12/21/08

I went to a farm boarding school as a little kid. I have fond memories of taking care of the pigs (which we also ate).

lavendot at 9:00PM on 12/21/08

My friend Toan made the most delicious pork ribs. He braised the ribs in beer for hours than BBQ it. It makes my mouth waters when I think about it.

eileen216 at 9:01PM on 12/21/08

my moms sausage with white gravy on biscuits. My dads roast pork he was a cook and OMG the whole house smelled so good for days after and we had pork so many different ways that week by the end it was bar b que pork sandwiches with his great potato salad

blday50 at 9:03PM on 12/21/08

I called into my local radio station when they were giving away whole hams to the 9th caller one Christmas. They told me I had to sing Jingle Bells to win. I can't carry a tune so it was horrible and they ended up playing a clip of my singing all week but I won that delicious ham!

lisalmg25 at 9:05PM on 12/21/08

The bacon at Peter Luger in Brooklyn.

mhgatti at 9:05PM on 12/21/08

The year our team won the Pig Roast competition at the company's Luau.

jashelep23 at 9:07PM on 12/21/08

My mom would make BLT's using the tomato's from our garden, I still think of BLT's when my tomato plants show fruit.

bongeezer at 9:08PM on 12/21/08

When my son got married, for the dinner, he wanted to roast a whole pig like they do in the Phillipines. He killed the pig, dressed it and roasted (head still on) it on a big barbeque that we rented. We ate it with some Philipino side dishes and it was delicious.

arvard at 9:11PM on 12/21/08

Years of dating and to my despair not one pork eater amongst several men. Finally met a handsome prince from New Jersey who loves a Christmas morning ham and egg scramble, to be capped off later with a coca cola ham for Christmas dinner. We fell in love, married, and produced yet another pork loving little boy.

Bumblebutton at 9:17PM on 12/21/08

My recent memory of great pork was yesterday, I bought a freshly smoked pork butt in North Carolina, pulled it apart with my own two little hands (with rubber gloves because that's how I roll) and we had it with some homemade eastern bbq sauce.

Southern_bella at 9:20PM on 12/21/08

My fondest pork memory was the first time I didn't overcook it!

AmaHugs2 at 9:22PM on 12/21/08

Pork ribs and sauerkraut with dumplings.

phasbargen at 9:26PM on 12/21/08

I made up a recipe for sweet and sour meatballs using pork, apricot pinepple preserves, and some "secret" ingredients. I took them to a Halloween "sports" party and one of the guys said, "Ok, confess. Who did it? Who brought the meatballs? These are the best meatballs I've ever tasted. I was glowing all night. To me that was the best compliment.

skytoucher at 9:34PM on 12/21/08

thick bacon in venezuela

dandylion at 9:35PM on 12/21/08

Money was very tight when I was young. So tight my mother would cut paper napkins in half to make them last longer. But on the first Sunday of each month we would have bacon for breakfast. We even wrote 'Bacon Day' on the calendar and would wear our best clothes.

Bacon Days are still a favorite memory for me.

Trixielou at 9:38PM on 12/21/08

My fondest pork memory is the pork roast sandwitch I had at my grandmother's house during the Christmas season.

FIBERONE at 9:39PM on 12/21/08

I remember being obsessed with the giant pig rear on Harper's ham when I was a very young girl. I thought it was so funny.

bennigancat at 9:43PM on 12/21/08

my dad's sausage and spare rib laced sauce, which is the perfect means of celebrating christmas eve in our jewish household...

Shelby at 9:50PM on 12/21/08

Wrapping Bacon Around a hot dog and serving them to a group of people who thought I was nuts.... I now am required to make it for every summer function they have. :)

SimplyJoyous at 9:55PM on 12/21/08

Bacon added to a meat loaf, bacon stuffed with Brie inside a chicken breast, rack of pork, pork tenderloin, pork loin, you name it and I've enjoyed cooking it for family and friends. I just LOVE pork!

lisargold at 10:09PM on 12/21/08

from New Jersey, my mother married man from Alabama. Once we visited his parents in Mississippi.... Dinner was outstanding! My mother questioned how she was able to make her vegetables taste as incredible as they were... to watch my mother's jaw drop when they told her they always cooked with pork fat!!! clog my arteries n bring it on!! haha

elmomomi at 10:12PM on 12/21/08

I think my favorite would be cooking bacon over the campfire for breakfast while camping at the coast. wgbc1446@yahoo.com

wgbc1446 at 10:16PM on 12/21/08

My best's friend's brother got to "name the pigs" one year. And they decided to name the pigs after us! So we help raise our namesakes...and then later that season..Jodie and Stephanie made delicious breakfast..

mmmm. nothing like eating your namesake

bisbee at 10:17PM on 12/21/08

The best pork ribs that I've ever had- in Ashville, NC at a BBQ joint that I happened upon.

hfglrg at 10:19PM on 12/21/08

pork memory (what a weird phrase)...finding that pork was the cheapest meat when we lived in Taiwan, and so learning how to cook pork tenderloin in the first year of marriage...

emilywalker at 10:22PM on 12/21/08

My first party I went to when I was a teenager was a pig pic-kin, a whole pig on the grill. The best pig I ever ate.

parkercat at 10:25PM on 12/21/08

After not eating meat for 10+ years, I discovered how amazing a little pork can make almost any dish, especially sausage from Ottos.

alexb at 10:28PM on 12/21/08

My fondest pork memory has to be when my cousin fed me bacon wrapped chicken thighs for the first time. It was like an epiphany. I knew bacon was great as a stand alone food. But who knew that that other foods get better when you wrap bacon around them?

Celia at 10:45PM on 12/21/08

Carnitas on fresh hot corn tortillas from a local Mexican grocery. My grilled boneless pork ribs. Baby back ribs slathered in drippy sauce.

Any pork...pulled, smothered, roasted, grilled, in tamales...sigh!!

lamora at 10:48PM on 12/21/08

My grandfathers smokehouse and fresh pork on the farm.
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pms3237 at 10:48PM on 12/21/08

First time I made pozole.

dbcurrie at 10:49PM on 12/21/08

a "pig pickin"in Greenville North Carolina

leelee2405 at 10:53PM on 12/21/08

Roasting a whole hog for friends.

foodscience at 10:57PM on 12/21/08

Seeing curing pork hung from the rafters of a very hot barn dripping fat onto the ground, kind of gross but fascinating. End results fabulous.

HelloChris at 10:57PM on 12/21/08

Our first new year's eve together my husband and I roasted a pork loin and and rang in the new year.

chrissy75007 at 10:59PM on 12/21/08

I have to go with lining up for the whole roast pig at Il Buco's Sagra Del Maiale festival on Bond St. Plus I saw David Rosengarten there, which made it even more awesome.

DanielJ at 11:00PM on 12/21/08

The breakfast links my nonna would cook for me with a poached egg, toast and fruit she'd put up that summer (the cherries were my favorite).

GregWA at 11:01PM on 12/21/08

First time I ate REAL bacon, instead of this Oscar Meyer stuff...

jessie at 11:06PM on 12/21/08

BLTs, always my favorite.

Diane from PA at 11:14PM on 12/21/08

My fondest memory is in childhood my family had a farm where we raised a couple of pigs. My dad would roast one for Christmas.

9string at 11:15PM on 12/21/08

Mmmm... my first experience with Bacon Chocolate Cupcakes... both scary and awesome at the same time.

unavaca at 11:17PM on 12/21/08

One of my good friends called to tell me she was pregnant with her first child and wanted to have me over for supper to celebrate. She made a scrumptious casserole with pork chops, potatoes and mushroom soup. I still make that casserole today and every time I prepare it I think about my friend and that dinner.

mcclave at 11:18PM on 12/21/08

The pleasant surprise of my first smoked butt.

ghinson at 11:21PM on 12/21/08

The first time I made Bacon Ice Cream!

ashleebug at 11:22PM on 12/21/08

My first pork huarache

queensblondie at 11:31PM on 12/21/08

Eating pork rinds at gradma's

lvfordguy at 11:40PM on 12/21/08

The first time I tasted Vosges Chocolate Bacon Bar! I was weary at first, a chocolate bar with bacon bits in it, sounded strange, but I was too curious to pass it up. It's actually soooo good!

Thanks!

amberlicious at 11:40PM on 12/21/08

My first bacon, at 17.

thatgrrl at 11:41PM on 12/21/08

fried pork belly.

maportofu at 11:43PM on 12/21/08

Finding out that I love bacon and avocado together!

neojess at 11:45PM on 12/21/08

Roasting a whole hog at a tailgate in Buffalo

KSmith at 11:47PM on 12/21/08

Sharing a bag of pork rinds with my mother as a kid, not something we did often, but was great every time we did.

iWander at 11:48PM on 12/21/08

My Mom has a recipe for pork tenderloin with glazed onions. It has become my new favorite holiday meal to cook for my family. It is delicious and easy--a winning combination.

artmarcia at 11:53PM on 12/21/08

Does being chased by a bore at my grandpa's farm count?

My grandmother always had fried ham and sausages for breakfast every morning. Everything I smell fried ham I'm reminded of my summers on the farm.

kohndr at 11:54PM on 12/21/08

My favorite pork memory was when I went to a pig roast on the Fourth of July. The pork was delicious tasting along with all the side foods. Nothing is finer than eating pork while watching fireworks!

berwyn at 11:57PM on 12/21/08

Bacon mixed with pototoes is my memory my mom used to toss this together.

MCJunkie at 11:59PM on 12/21/08

My fondest pork memory is visiting my mom's friend's Pork Chop Truck at county fairs.

nesta67 at 11:59PM on 12/21/08

at a birthday party tonight, my son smoked a pork tenderloin to PERFECTION

mobileoma at 12:00AM on 12/22/08

My mom's pork roast with potatoes cooked in the same pan. MMM.

slb3334 at 12:02AM on 12/22/08

When I was a college student in Kentucky, I had my first sausage biscuit and omg was it good! I'd never eaten anything like it and to this day, I remember that first bite and how delicious it was! That ismy fondest pork memory!

missm at 12:02AM on 12/22/08

In college, I interned on Capitol Hill for an amazing Oklahoma congressman. He held a fundraiser over the summer - a "pig pull" fundraiser. When I first saw the whole roasted pig displayed upon the buffet table I was just a tad horrified. It was probably the first time I had ever seen one...and it just looked so much like a....pig. And then the congressman pulled off a piece of roasted pig and handed it to me and.......damn! So good! I'll never forget it.

Ande at 12:02AM on 12/22/08

Discovering how yummy prosciutto-wrapped shrimp and pineapple is... and how easy it is to make. Oh, and how adding a little bit of pork sausage to homemade chicken soup takes into wonderful new dimensions!

wittybob at 12:05AM on 12/22/08

Smoked pork brisket with homemade barbecue sauce. My husband got up at 4:30 in the morning to get it started and it smoked low and slow all day. Slices of porky, smoky, fatty, make-your-eyes-roll-back-in-your-head goodness.

Nezrite at 12:06AM on 12/22/08

growing up in New Jersey I had a freind whose family was from Mississippi; after an Xmas trip my freinds family returned & in their car trunk was this huge dead animal encased in ice
they called it a "wild hog"; i have no idea what it was but the next day after it was cooked it sure tasted good!

jlipof at 12:12AM on 12/22/08

my first taste of braised pork belly. It melted deliciously in my mouth. Pigs are such a magically awesome beast!

wilsonj120 at 12:13AM on 12/22/08

When my friend won a ham from you guys last year, and she had an Emergency Ham Party, and I made a cake shaped like a pig to add to the celebration.

semarr at 12:14AM on 12/22/08

Pork roast covered with creole mustard and fresh grated horseradish.

rcstout12 at 12:16AM on 12/22/08

Making bacon ice cream :)

Xtreambar at 12:18AM on 12/22/08

ribson the grill

llinda29 at 12:20AM on 12/22/08

all memories of pork. i love the stuff.

allenb at 12:26AM on 12/22/08

My Mom could make the best pork roast. I love her pork roast
She had a special way to make them taste wonderful.
I can never make them as good as her.
Thanks so much for the contest

mullin at 12:27AM on 12/22/08

Bacon on Sunday morning, after church.

Nicholas H at 12:27AM on 12/22/08

I was little and my family was on vacation. We drove through Mississippi and my father saw a family owned store selling homemade smoked hams and sausage. He bought a bunch of it, and we packed it in dry ice and drove it all the way back to Colorado. The car smelled so good and yummy.

lfhpueblo at 12:34AM on 12/22/08

crispy bacon

gorzd at 12:46AM on 12/22/08

well, it may have started when i first saw Tampopo, and the respect and adoration offered to the pork in the ramen bowl in that scene got me to thinking...

and it may have ended tonight, when i tried david chang's pork buns at momofuku ssam for the first time- made from slices of perfect pork belly- succulent, greasy and sweet as can be!

markoboni at 12:49AM on 12/22/08

My favorite pork memory? What a funny challenge! But I do have one. A friend of mine held a real pork roast every year, the kind where you dig a pit and I guess bury the pig roast? Anyhow, every year, I had to work on that night and missed the roast. Finally, one year, I got a taste of that divine roast pork. My friend actually left his party to bring me a huge plate of roast pork with all the picnic trimmings at work. And it was indeed, divine.

heaventrees at 12:50AM on 12/22/08

Matt's Rib Shack in ATL. So delicious.

stinnacakes at 12:52AM on 12/22/08

My favorite pork memory was my first taste of chorizo at an amazing restaurant in Cancun my friends and I discovered in the middle of nowhere during our spring break vacation a few years back. Our expectations for the food was very low, but with my first bite of my dish, which was dubbed "Pollo Loco" because it blended a chicken breast with chorizo, I immediately fell in love with the spicy, mouthwatering Mexican sausage. I liked the dish so much I recommended a friend of mine put it on the menu at his Mexican restaurant, which he did - so now I can enjoy it all the time!

guettel78 at 12:54AM on 12/22/08

I went to my first fall pig roast at a farm near Rhinebeck, New York. The atmosphere and the pork were both wonderful, but the thing I remember most vividly was the head of the hog I had just eaten lying near the roasting pit. That and the chef, high on life and jello shots, eating the pig's eyes.

jvanhoy at 12:58AM on 12/22/08

my fondest pork memory was a pulled pork sandwich I had at a fair a few years ago...wow was it good

rdazer at 12:58AM on 12/22/08

As a kid we lived close to this store that had a bratwurst cart out in front and on special occasions my dad would buy us a bratwurst and a coke.

atreau at 12:59AM on 12/22/08

Mom making butterflied fried pork from scratch

madeas at 1:00AM on 12/22/08

Eating fatback at Granny's house as a kid... ahh good stuff. :)

ghostamongyou at 1:03AM on 12/22/08

I had a Tongan friend who cooked his pigs undergrond. Always very juicy.

augrim at 1:13AM on 12/22/08

My mother making sausage from scratch. With the intestinal casings and all. They were educational and delicious!

sasstastic at 1:15AM on 12/22/08

my mom used to make pork chops with fried onions and garlic, seared the pork, then she would take a can of campbell mushroom soup condensed, and spread it on the porkchops, then she would top it off with the onlions and garlic. this was one of my all time favortie pork dishes,

darski at 1:19AM on 12/22/08

Every year we have a retreat in upstate NY and roast a whole pig. Always delicious.

Carly705 at 1:21AM on 12/22/08

i'M FROM SYLMAR, HOME OF ARNOLD ZIFFEL, PORCINE TV STAR!

BIGMEATEATER at 1:35AM on 12/22/08

I remeber waking up in the mornings when I spent the night with grandma and pa and the smell of the bacon or sausage making my mouth water and not minding about having to get up early.

blueeyeleo at 1:45AM on 12/22/08

Best pork memory would have to come from Hawaii. Nothing better than freshly cooked pork right out of the ground!!!

dwhogan at 1:47AM on 12/22/08

when i learned to make baby back pork ribs chinese style...they tasted sooooo good that i shall never need to order them from a restaurant again

boogaloobaby at 1:58AM on 12/22/08

My favorite pork memory is the first time I tried baby back ribs (about 25 years ago), cooked by my mother-in-law. I didn't know pork could taste so good! Now I make them myself.

dlguss at 2:08AM on 12/22/08

A fantastic pig roast in late Fall here in Southern New England. Slow cooked in a specially prepared deep pit, turned several times til golden brown.

I was asked to carve it up since I brought my knives with me.

Of course, being the carver, I had the pleasure of "taste testing" all of the fine crackling brown skin, and lucious juicy pork from the prime areas.

This continued on for a number of years and seemed to get better every year.

Grifola frondosa at 2:11AM on 12/22/08

had some amazing pork ribs at my moms friend's house, soooo good!

samanthapayntr at 2:29AM on 12/22/08

Eating wild pig cooked in a hangi at Te Hora marae in New Zealand when I was little.

HarliH at 2:31AM on 12/22/08

My fondest pork memory is when ever I eat really good ribs.

theolotto at 2:48AM on 12/22/08

I love any real good bbq rib.

theolotto at 2:51AM on 12/22/08

I grew up in the country and our neighbors would raise and slaughter their own pigs every year, then smoke the bacon and hams in a cinderblock smokehouse out back. The smell of the meat smoking on a cold late autumn day would make your mouth water and they'd always bring us some since that's what country neighbors do.

galeogirl at 2:55AM on 12/22/08

Eating sausage grinders on the boardwalk.

architeuthis at 3:14AM on 12/22/08

Yummm, I love pig. My first pig roast at a friend's summer picnic years ago,is my favorite memory.

sassy1 at 3:28AM on 12/22/08

My father rarely cooked but every once in a while he would make home-made sausage and it was so very good. Thanks for the contest.

slehan at 3:29AM on 12/22/08

I LOVE PORK , MY GRANDMA SURE TO FRY FORK CHOPS IN LARD BACK IN THE EARLY 1950's GREAT EATING
ALSO GETTING STATION IN GERMANY IN THE USAF...THESE GERMANS SURE KNOW HOW TO COOK PORK

nenieves at 3:53AM on 12/22/08

The first time I made carnitas took a lonnnnng time. I knew it would, but it still amazed me. But the results were totally worth it!

squidlette at 4:04AM on 12/22/08

my first homemade char siew bao in singapore....the food that made me un-vegetarian.

valeriam at 5:28AM on 12/22/08

My favorite pork memory is my Dad cooking a whole pig on the cooker her built himself. Each year, my parents host a pig-picking for both sides of the family in December. We just had our 8th year! My Dad can cook a pig like no one's business!!!

sherri19 at 5:33AM on 12/22/08

My dad cooking sausage, ham, or his favorite-jowl- on Sunday mornings.
The man loves his pork!

yogasteph at 5:37AM on 12/22/08

my first ribs

bibliothecaire at 6:18AM on 12/22/08

I love bacon and love to add it to everything. An exchange student from Japan shared a simple recipe made with bacon, potatoes, onion and potatoes. It's really delicious and the Japannese way to eat it is to set it in the middle of the table and everyone dig in with their chopsticks ( or forks).

Dove420 at 6:19AM on 12/22/08

eating pok and beans from the can when we did not have a stove

intime at 6:23AM on 12/22/08

Pork BBQ @ my wedding.

jenberger at 6:30AM on 12/22/08

My grandmother's homemade sausage with buckwheat pancakes.

Joyce424 at 6:36AM on 12/22/08

The first time I had BBQ pork ribs...oh my! Yum!

pancak at 6:37AM on 12/22/08

Back in the 70's, standing in line, in the cold, in Detroit, to get a "Honeybaked" ham. BRRRR!

anyang at 6:40AM on 12/22/08

Ooh, the tasty options. Hard to select a favorite, but pork dip sandwiches, BBQ pork and butterflied fried pork are all among the candidates for favorite pork dish memory....

sdeas at 7:00AM on 12/22/08

We just had a bonafide pig roast this past summer that rocked! I didn't really enjoy seeing the pig face on the spit, but he tasted darn good!

HMcChezz at 7:06AM on 12/22/08

A pig roast at a Renaissance festival. That was unbelievable!

mcferret at 7:10AM on 12/22/08

Pork used to make tamales at Christmas when we lived in Germany.

Faither at 7:12AM on 12/22/08

My fondest pork memory is not appropriate for a family website. No seriously, we make pork crown roast for holidays. The kids like the little paper booties.

ky2here at 7:14AM on 12/22/08

As exquisite pork chop in Lincoln Nebraska on a cold January day.

Belsbernd at 7:18AM on 12/22/08

Neighborhood pig roasts growing up. Everyone chipped in, used an empty lot to roast the pig, played games and ate well all day long.

bobcatsteph3 at 7:20AM on 12/22/08

fondest pork memory? Bar -b-q at Fat Matts in Atlanta with my new beau this past fall!!

madamerkf at 7:21AM on 12/22/08

My grandmother's bacon & eggs & homemade biscuits are a fond memory of childhood visits with my grandparents! Thanks!

sharonjo at 7:28AM on 12/22/08

Home-cured ham for breakfast with biscuits, sorghum and eggs.

sarash at 7:32AM on 12/22/08

BLT's with my Grandmother on weekend afternoons.

redfantum at 7:33AM on 12/22/08

grandma's pigs' feet

miamia at 7:36AM on 12/22/08

I will never forget the first time I watched a whole pig be cooked . There was so much grease. I thought no way am I eating that, but it was actually really good.

idahomom at 7:38AM on 12/22/08

My first bit of bacon... sweet sweet bacon

tulawdog76 at 7:40AM on 12/22/08

My dad and I would always fight over the last sausage during Saturday morning breakfast - he always let me win!

bmcbrides at 7:50AM on 12/22/08

My in-laws had a luau in their back yard. They dug a pit for a roasting pig. I didn't eat any, but I had a great time at the party!

susanchester at 8:07AM on 12/22/08

big saturday morning breakfasts with the whole family

thebeef at 8:12AM on 12/22/08

The first time we made Alton Brown's bacon in the oven with some nice thick-cut organic bacon. Soooooo good!

DuncanHusky at 8:22AM on 12/22/08

I moved south and attended a party where I had the most delicious pork butt ever- tender, flavorful. I asked for the recipe and was at Publix and just could not bring myself to put something in my cart called pork butt. I'll eat it and enjoy it but i won't make it.
-Jewish in the South.

savscarlett at 8:27AM on 12/22/08

As a child, we used to go to this restaurant on Sunday mornings and the sausage and bacon was awesome!

mariana at 8:30AM on 12/22/08

Fresh, hot hog cracklins' from Louisiana. There is nothing tastier than a freshly fried piece of 'real' pork deep fried in oil - so crisp and tender. Not like that stuff you buy in a bag at the store, no sir.

mkboldin at 8:31AM on 12/22/08

I come from the Caribbean and my fondest memories are of going to my aunt's annual Christmas (or Epiphany) feast and having a whole roast pig. It was quite a production, two or three men would bring the pig and place it with all sorts of extras. Wonderful taste!

edeliz at 8:32AM on 12/22/08

Eating pork and sauerkraut with my grandfather, when I was very young. SOOO many years ago.

ladyvon5845 at 8:32AM on 12/22/08

Pork butt smoking all day on our backyard grill & the family gathered around the picnic table to eat it.

kaatbaro at 8:33AM on 12/22/08

My Dad's cousin makes homemade Italian pork sausages every year and brings them to our family's Christmas party, cooked in homemade spaghetti sauce. They melt in your mouth...so amazing!

amylou61 at 8:34AM on 12/22/08

any memory including bacon is a great one for me

gambler72 at 8:35AM on 12/22/08

The first time I had BBQ ribs with homemade BBQ sauce. I had recently gotten married and my wife made them. She has a recipe that her dear departed Dad created. OMG! I thought I died and went to heaven, pork heaven!

Quarryrat at 8:44AM on 12/22/08

end of summer pig roasts in the back yard.

Jeane at 8:45AM on 12/22/08

The first BLT of the summer with homegrown tomatoes.

cher48603 at 8:52AM on 12/22/08

Thanksgiving morning we had a smoked pork butt and it was the best thing I have tasted!!!!

sln123 at 8:58AM on 12/22/08

The Pig roast that I went to with all Cuban dishes. The Pork, was so moist and yummy.

brlucky7 at 9:02AM on 12/22/08

Gave my fiance a Vosge's bacon bar in his stocking last year. Happy days!

katarina_santiago at 9:02AM on 12/22/08

beer and bacon tasting at jimmy's no.43

SEats at 9:04AM on 12/22/08

The breakfast my mom makes every Christmas morning. Ham, sausage and bacon...mmmm- pork fest!!

216amyc at 9:05AM on 12/22/08

Eating barbecue in Memphis. Eating at barbecue places always feels like you are eating like a local. The pulled pork was interesting and delicious. Don't remember too much of Memphis except the barbecue,music and bookstores.

bingsy at 9:05AM on 12/22/08

My fondest pork memory is driving by the Farm everyday and seeing all the little piglets running around.

dsja761 at 9:07AM on 12/22/08

Good ole fried pork chop sandwich on white bread, with mustard!

redqtip at 9:07AM on 12/22/08

My sister's friend from Hawaii, digging a pit in my mom's backyard, roasting a pig for a traditional Hawaiian luau.....in Maine!

tillacat at 9:18AM on 12/22/08

my great granmother's pork chops....i don't know how she did them, but they were juicy and SO DELICIOUS

chuchubi at 9:21AM on 12/22/08

cooking bacon on a campfire in beautiful mountain scenery

Annek at 9:22AM on 12/22/08

Driving around Birmingham, AL for an hour before finally finding a BBQ place that was open... best pulled pork ever.

uncleozzy at 9:22AM on 12/22/08

Eating breakfast at my grandparents. My granddad woulf fey up some homemade country sausage, garrettsambo@aol.com

garrettsambo at 9:27AM on 12/22/08

I grew up on a hog farm. I loved it! I still miss it to this day and wish my children could experience what I did. My favorite thing was the hog roasts. We had huge family get togethers and the pork was so tender and good. THank you

tatertot374 at 9:28AM on 12/22/08

Eating BLT's all summer with home grown tomatoes

jacvil at 9:29AM on 12/22/08

When my grandmother was a girl she lived on a farm and pork sausage, bacon and sliced ham were breakfast staples along with fried potatoes, oatmeal and toast. No silly city breakfasts for my grandmother. Wven when she moved to the city she always prepared her farm breakfasts and I grew up on them.

mensa63 at 9:31AM on 12/22/08

recently was spending a weekend with friends and we made a great fennel sausage recipe (found on this site!) for dinner. we purchased the sausage from a great german butcher in the catskills.

j at 9:36AM on 12/22/08

bacon and eggs at my grandma's, on the porch in the summer time, with biscuits and tomato from the garden.

good.

intheyearofthepig at 9:39AM on 12/22/08

My favorite pork memory was when I realized I like pulled pork sandwiches. We were on vacation and I did not see anything else on the menu that I liked so I ordered this sandwich. It was AMAZING! We know have pulled pork sandwiches for dinner several times a month!

mjhd49505 at 9:39AM on 12/22/08

A bacon sandwich on a toasted bagel at the deli on the corner of 95th & 3rd in Manhattan - nothing added to spoil the taste of the bacon - a treat whenever I visit my daughter in NYC :-)

JaneGF at 9:40AM on 12/22/08

Eating real NC barbeque for the first time.

EazyB at 9:41AM on 12/22/08

Luau pork in Hawaii. Oh.my.heck.

Reva Skie at 9:41AM on 12/22/08

Making red chili pork tamales with family for Christmas!!! Since I was just a kid, every mid-December my gramma and a few cousins and aunts and I would get together a tamale-making party to make tamales as Christmas gifts from Gramma to family! Gramma didn't have much money and we all loved her tamales; but they took a lot of work and at least 3 or 4 people were needed to make them, so her tamales were always a special present. During the tamale parties, each person was in charge of one part of the tamale-making process ~~ making the pork roast, the red chili, soaking the corn husks, molding the masa onto the corn husks, spooning the red chili pork onto the masa, tying up the tamales, etc. During all of this, many family stories were regailed, lots of warm memories re-told, and so much laughter shared!! Thank you for this wonderful contest that brought back great memories!!!
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txgiggles45 at 9:46AM on 12/22/08

love BBQ'd ribs

julis55 at 9:50AM on 12/22/08

It would have to be the local pig roast at the bar down the street

windwisper at 9:50AM on 12/22/08

family reunion roast pork shoulder

mixedberries at 9:56AM on 12/22/08

Love eating Pork Hocks with mustard and sauercrout with my Dad as a favorite Germsn dish

WStabenau at 9:58AM on 12/22/08

My Mother's roast pork with sauerkraut! To die for!

vholdman at 10:00AM on 12/22/08

homemade biscuits and sausage gravy in my grandmother's kitchen

MadameTart at 10:04AM on 12/22/08

country hammmmm

posephus at 10:05AM on 12/22/08

Roast whole hogs and having the bacon/side for breakfast after spending the night cooking the hog.

slvance at 10:07AM on 12/22/08

Walking into a supermarket in Newport News, VA and the wonderful aroma of ham was wafting throughout the store, even though the meat dept. was in the very back of the store.

WallyBalloo at 10:11AM on 12/22/08

I love baby back rib's-went to the House of Blues once and ate a whole rack by myself.

dove1960 at 10:12AM on 12/22/08

I loved stuffed pork chops for New Year's day dinner

ptreskovich at 10:12AM on 12/22/08

Bacon martini... long story...

graciecat at 10:14AM on 12/22/08

my fondest pork memory is having carolina bbq with my friends for the first time when I went away to college in NC. tasty stuff, nothing else compares.

gervitsd at 10:15AM on 12/22/08

i was at a pig roast. best pork ever!

tkissilles at 10:22AM on 12/22/08

Saturday morning breakfast where Bacon and Eggs were the standard faire. Bacon!!! Lard makes the best pie crusts!

Thank you for the Giveaway and Merry Christmas!

rfrakes331k at 10:25AM on 12/22/08

When I was a kid the neighbors cross the road had a mini farm with a few sheep, chickens and a honker of a boar pig named Zeke. I used to dig potatoes as a child for a local farmer, and on my way home would throw a few of the taters in for Zeke to nibble on. One day, when going out to get the mail, I heard this snorting and pounding of hooves on the dirt road. It was Zeke, running full speed toward me with ears flapping, snot flying and I just knew he thought I was one big tater. I barely made it into the house where he kept watch for me over an hour, before our neighbor retrieved him. Anyway, wasn't long after that our wonderful neighbor presented us with some nice sausage, bacon and a few chops....yup, Zeke met his demise. None too soon, either...

BruinsMom at 10:33AM on 12/22/08

The bacon and eggs I had for breakfast yesterday was really good and hubby cooked it. lol. Thanks for having the contest!

brmetcalf at 10:33AM on 12/22/08

Crispy bacon in the morning. With Chocolate chip pancakes, but not much pork in those... :)

umassfen at 10:34AM on 12/22/08

Oh, my mom makes the most delicious sauerkraut with pork hocks. Since we don't live close to home anymore, I don't get it much. They had it this year for Thanksgiving, but we weren't able to visit. So I salivated in the phone, while they all ate......

dakotamoon at 10:38AM on 12/22/08

Christmas morning ham casserole!

foostu at 10:38AM on 12/22/08

BBQ pork from Sonnys BBQ in Dallas - I'm going right now.

ELYSESW at 10:39AM on 12/22/08

Roast suckling pig, Balinese style

Brettsy at 10:40AM on 12/22/08

My favorite memory is so simple-- I remember when I was a kid and occasionally for a treat my mom would make these egg, cheese and bacon sandwiches for dinner as a special treat. These things were huge and so incredibly delicious! The bacon was so greasy that it would soak into the bread and grease up on the plate. MMmmmm!!!

lizguillet at 10:44AM on 12/22/08

Fondest memory is my grandfathers sweet and sour pork chops. So delicious, I always look forward to them.

victorylow at 10:44AM on 12/22/08

My favorite pork memory is when my mom cooked dinner for my boyfriend (now husband). She made a beautiful ham. When she went to cut it, we realized she had left the plastic on. I still tease her about it.

rlgrady at 10:45AM on 12/22/08

A plate full of jamon serrano in Tarifa, Spain, less than an hour after stepping off the ferry from Tangiers, after living in a Muslim country for a year...

addiedog at 10:47AM on 12/22/08

Ahhh, the memory. Crispy, juicy, candied pork belly for lunch at a snout to tail spot called Feast. Cherchez la cochon.

lambowner at 10:49AM on 12/22/08

I was at a Luau in Hawaii where they had a pig roast where they buried the pig almost all day.

radcrow at 10:58AM on 12/22/08

I swear, as soon as I saw this post, I smelled bacon. Now I read that Zingerman's has produced "quite simply the best pork product group ever assembled in one gift box." I think the "memory" of bacon yet to come is my best pork memory ever. Praise the lard!

nape9393 at 11:01AM on 12/22/08

My fondest pork memory would have to be tasting the lardo at Del Posto during my first visit there. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven!

lisasav5 at 11:04AM on 12/22/08

Pork Super Burrito at Lupitas in Mexican town.

gunbuster at 11:05AM on 12/22/08

the first bite of a momofuku pork bun

foodinmouth at 11:09AM on 12/22/08

met my husband at a bacon party...the first of several BaconFests that summer...

sarah at 11:10AM on 12/22/08

Mind-blowing open faced BLT at Everett Street Bistro in Portland, OR. The meal: thick slice of sourdough spread with lemon aioli, topped with a basil/tomato salad, Nueske bacon, thickly shaved Parmesan, and two fried eggs. Mixed greens with lemon vinaigrette on the side. Heaven.

PDXbiker at 11:13AM on 12/22/08

My best friend's party with the roasted pig in the ground......what a party!

miriama59 at 11:15AM on 12/22/08

My fondest pork memory would be the first time we cooked a spiral-sliced ham at Thanksgiving. It was one of the most delicious things I had ever tasted!

Starshine3 at 11:17AM on 12/22/08

Eating Hartley's Pork Pies as a kid, in my hometown New Bedford, Mass.

zina1017 at 11:19AM on 12/22/08

each sunday i look forward to my eggs and bacon

mverno at 11:21AM on 12/22/08

My best memory is of a pig roast at a friend's house on a lake. They dug a deep pit and roasted the pig to perfection. We all had a great time at the party and this was the first time that I had been to a pig roast. Yummy.

SeahorseLady at 11:22AM on 12/22/08

Possibly the first time I had apple cinnamon smoked bacon. mmmmmmmmmm

GretchinF at 11:23AM on 12/22/08

Thick sliced bacon from the farmer's market.

JudyH at 11:27AM on 12/22/08

Fresh cracklin'.

aldenrich at 11:28AM on 12/22/08

Grandma's Christmas ham!

kvelchoff at 11:36AM on 12/22/08

Went into a small cafe in Venice, and was perplexed by the "laripo" sandwiches in the case. Asked the clerk, and realized our complete misreading of the handwriting: Lard ("lardo" in Italian) sandwiches. Yum.

jbrodsky at 11:37AM on 12/22/08

My fondest memory is from when I was a kid. We would go camping and I loved waking up to the smell of bacon in the great outdoors. My mom made great bacon. Thanks for the chance to win!

iowamom at 11:39AM on 12/22/08

My mom's Boston Butt!

kbama at 11:52AM on 12/22/08

waking up to the smell of bacon in a skillet on a smoldering campfire...

hookrilla at 11:55AM on 12/22/08

Biking through a residential neighborhood after an hour and a half of rowing in freezing cold weather and smelling this amazing bacon aroma wafting across the road. It always made getting back to college hall and eating my fill of delicious British bacon.

shoneyjoe at 11:58AM on 12/22/08

MOM making pancakes and saugases and bacon on a cold winter morning .get out of bed in the cold-we did not have heat in ur bedrooms then lived on a farm. the woodstove going run downstair get warm and thew wonderful aroma wafting through the house ah the good old days

sue14625 at 12:01PM on 12/22/08

I love the BBQ ribs I make on the grill. They're always a hit!

denyse at 12:02PM on 12/22/08

Making my first pulled pork BBQ. MMMMMM.

EmilySC at 12:03PM on 12/22/08

Many pancake and sausage breakfasts at my grandmother's when I was a kid.

jenilowrance at 12:03PM on 12/22/08

Smelling the bacon cooking on a cold winter morning! That was reason enough to jump out of bed!

Valeen at 12:07PM on 12/22/08

my mom's pork tenderloin . . . mmmmmm

dlo221 at 12:10PM on 12/22/08

Every time I bite into a BLT with garden tomatoes on sourdough bread...mmmmm!

her5boys at 12:10PM on 12/22/08

my mom's crispy skinned pork belly

mrsbao at 12:15PM on 12/22/08

My fondest pork memory is the first time I created my mother a bacon sandwich: Take one cinnamon sugar doughnut, preferably still warm, slice in half like a bun, and layer with bacon - crispy is preferable. I still have a picture of her biting into that with childlike glee.

maryfh at 12:16PM on 12/22/08

The roast pork restaurant we went to on my first trip to Germany. We had blood soup, blood sausage and who knows what else. It was wonderful and so long ago.

kevlney at 12:20PM on 12/22/08

Chinese Steamed Roast Pork Buns from China Town in NYC are the most delish snack you can buy for under $1.

Julianna L at 12:23PM on 12/22/08

When I was child hogs were butchered every fall. Fresh pork was especially good since we hadn't had any since the previous year. We subsisted on canned and smoked meat between butcherings. I can still remember how delightful the first taste was.

willitara at 12:24PM on 12/22/08

My favorite memory is anytime I have bacon. Just the word makes my mouth water.

cre8tveminde at 12:31PM on 12/22/08

Noche Buena. As great as it is to live in Portland, the roast pig with mojo is meant to be eaten in South Florida, which was home for 42 years.

HMS at 12:32PM on 12/22/08

I am very fond of Bacon wrapped scallopes,on Christmas Day!Yummmmmmy!

Blueberri at 12:34PM on 12/22/08

Nothing like the waking up to the smell of bacon cooking. Of couse, I never experience that anymore, since I am the one doing the cooking!

smitchathome at 12:37PM on 12/22/08

pork shoulder used for filling homemade tamales that is a yearly tradition

nmp164 at 12:43PM on 12/22/08

Butchering pigs on the farm and cutting the meat ourselves. I love pork hocks and sauerkraut.

hungrylikethewolf at 12:45PM on 12/22/08

Bacon for the first time after 9 years of not eating pork products!

foodandscience at 12:46PM on 12/22/08

My favorite pork memory is the Thanksgiving my Grandmother forgot to turn on the oven to cook the turkey. So we took out the raw turkey and put in a ham (it cooked faster). By the time we finally got to the table nothing had ever tasted as good as that ham.

adaughetee at 12:46PM on 12/22/08

My fondest pork memory, as I've recounted before, involves my first visit to the south (well, Virginia) and homemade ham biscuits. And, later on, about a gallon of water after all that salt!

lo82070 at 12:54PM on 12/22/08

pork pump at Lake Spring in Monterey Park

pupilindenial at 12:56PM on 12/22/08

My first spit roasted pig. The taste almost made up for the trauma incurred by insertying the spit.

zenright at 12:59PM on 12/22/08

Eating pulled pork at Bobbys BBQ in Aiken, SC....MMMm! MMMM!! It is the BEST BBQ :)

kalikrush at 1:00PM on 12/22/08

A pig roast at a friend's house on the beach. So good. Crackling skin, moist goodness. Yum.

FoodBoy at 1:01PM on 12/22/08

Eating home cured bacon at my sister's farm.

janetfaye at 1:10PM on 12/22/08

My favorite was holding a piece of slab bacon on a stick over an open fire in the back yard and catching the bacon dripping on a slice of rye bread covered with sliced onions. i couldn't hardly wait until the bread had enough dripping to eat. Then when the bacon was finished dripping, it was great to eat.

zolysr at 1:25PM on 12/22/08

waking up to the smell of my grandfather cooking bacon.

peatheski at 1:25PM on 12/22/08

my mother used to make awesome stuffed pork chops :)

klp1965 at 1:27PM on 12/22/08

I add bacon and sauted onions to my meatloaf gravy. The best!

michelena2000 at 1:31PM on 12/22/08

I mostly love telling people that Jews who do not keep kosher LOVE bacon. Because it's totally true.

But yeah, anything involving bacon, or things wrapped in bacon, is a favorite of mine. It's just so...forbidden.

amyscoop at 1:33PM on 12/22/08

My moment is the time I made mouth-watering scrumptious delicious barbequed pork chops, oh they were so good and thats not an exaggeration!

rangrace at 1:48PM on 12/22/08

Making homemade brats with my dad.

phoney2 at 1:48PM on 12/22/08

We had a pig roast at my 1st wedding for our wedding dinner. Guests loved it and so did I.

captainmorgan420 at 1:49PM on 12/22/08

My favorite pork memory is discovering how good Spanish hams can be on a trip through Spain in 2001. I loved all the tapas bars with hams hanging from the ceilings.

Catherine at 1:50PM on 12/22/08

i cannot remember a day without pork in my life...=X

sassysprite at 1:50PM on 12/22/08

It was the time when I was a child, and we went to Germany to visit our family. One morning, the butcher came for some pigs; and, at lunch, we had wurst and sausage and pigs' feet.

LIDARKSIDE at 1:50PM on 12/22/08

The whole pig with an apple stuffed in his mouth sitting on the dinner table for easter in our Italian household.

jcyoda at 1:56PM on 12/22/08

I LOVE pork so this is just one of many fond memories. I was staying in Las Vegas and I got up early one morning to drive to Death Valley. I wanted to have as much time there as possible so I got up very early and the restaurant in my hotel wasn't open yet so I left without eating. After a few hours of driving through the desert I came to a little restaurant/convenience store/gas station/bar & casino and realized I was hungry. I ordered an omelette that had sausage, bacon and ham in it and was asked what kind of toast I'd like with it and she gave me the choice of white, wheat, English muffin or biscuits and sausage gravy. I'm from Chicago so I'd never had biscuits and sausage gravy before but it sounded like it would be a lot more filling than an english muffin so I ordered it. It was one of the bigger mistakes of my life because even though that was many years ago I still make my own biscuits and sausage gravy at home at least a couple of times a month and sometimes I even put some smoked deli bacon in it for extra flavor. Mmmmm . . . PORK!

drmagazine at 1:59PM on 12/22/08

My fondest pork memory was polishing off an entire rack of ribs when I was four years old. I have never changed. :)

shoesandsocks121 at 2:00PM on 12/22/08

I love to slice & boil Jalapeno's & stuff each half slcie with a mini sauage , cream cheese & wrap with a piece of bacon & cook until done.
I can eat these by the dozen!
Not really heart healty ~but I do use lowfat cream cheese.
When in a hurry I use precooked bacon & hold them togather with to pick & boil for 2 minutes.

This is my biggest vice ~but My #1 Pork Meal that I love.

ZESTYWONDERLAND at 2:02PM on 12/22/08

eating honey baked ham for a holiday meal - it was so-o-o-o-o-oo good!

js2222 at 2:02PM on 12/22/08

pork and hairy crab dumplings in shanghai.

jmunchie at 2:02PM on 12/22/08

My fondest pork memory was moving to North Carolina and finding out that wherever I went - eye doctor, dentist, etc - they all wanted to take my blood pressure. After about a year of this, I finally asked somebody why they all do it. I was told that it's because people in NC eat so much pork that people in the health field have to be extra careful to watch out for people with high blood pressure.

I'm sure this sounds crazy, but I smile whenever I remember!

barbarawr at 2:04PM on 12/22/08

Favorite pork memory? The easy answer is the crispy, hickory smoked bacon I had for breakfast yesterday. But one of my favorites is a teriyaki marinated pork tenderloin that I grill several times every summer - a fabulous treat that the entire family enjoys!!!

lritz at 2:05PM on 12/22/08

Sitting around the table on Saturday morning with my brothers and sisters eating peanutbutter toast with crispy bacon crumbled on top.

Spicy at 2:09PM on 12/22/08

Sunday mornings at the flea market with my BACON, butter and grape jelly sandwich on a soft kaiser roll

hente22 at 2:17PM on 12/22/08

Bun Cha Hanoi at Superior Pho, Cleveland, OH. Pork, 3 ways!
Sensational!

Pepper at 2:18PM on 12/22/08

Day the dog ran off with the pork roast cooling on the kitchen table.

Kimc54 at 2:23PM on 12/22/08

I remember knowing that my grandparents, who worked a ranch, got most of their meat and veggies from raising them themselves. Burgers, steaks, chicken...and bacon, right? I just knew bacon came from chickens until I saw my grandmother putting bacon in the shopping cart one day. I was flabbergasted, to say the least. Of course, I was six...

cowleyh at 2:31PM on 12/22/08

It's a tie - between the fabulous Pork Belly they serve at Blackbird's in Chicago - and the whole suckling pig roast at my sister-in-law's farm. YUM!

Salleefur at 2:34PM on 12/22/08

Walking back to work with a QP of jamon iberico from despana and proceeding to eat it all, straight up, slice by slice.

simon at 2:39PM on 12/22/08

Eating a chunk of lechon skin: pork that's been roasted over coals that gives you skin burnished in color, shatteringly crisp with a thin layer of fat. Dip in a sauce of cane vinegar, garlic and chili. Imagine the skin shattering between your teeth, fat melting on your tongue.

Oh.My.God.

lorelei76 at 2:46PM on 12/22/08

The time I scorched the ribs on the grill because they were too greasy.

Nesie at 2:50PM on 12/22/08

first time having bo ssam at momofuku!

skim at 2:57PM on 12/22/08

the cuban sandwich at live oak market in south austin, texas. amazing!

majorpepper at 3:03PM on 12/22/08

turkey for thanksgiving and ham for easter always

redron at 3:09PM on 12/22/08

I have two favorite pork memories:
I was at Mayberry Days a few years ago (in my hometown in NC) with my father, who had a booth set up for his business. I was there very early and was able to follow the judges around while they judged the pig cook-off contest. They judged all different types of the meat: whole hog and bbq with different sauces (eastern and western NC bbq) and the judges all let me sample with the judges. It was amazing!
The other memory is from when I was 8 years old and a neighbor roasted a whole hog on a homemade rotisserie in their yard. It freaked me out at the time, but I ate the meat and it was delicious!

jessleigh at 3:16PM on 12/22/08

Richardson's BBQ, Powderly, KY. Sliced or chopped pork bbq in a big wax paper container. The meat and the sauce were SO awesome. For many years we got it every time we visited my grandparents. All are long gone now -- the grandparents, and the bbq.

mkmarl01 at 3:25PM on 12/22/08

First time I had real bacon in a potato YUM

magpoff at 3:52PM on 12/22/08

Congrats to the winner, jlipof! We'll be getting in touch with you via email to coordinate delivery.

Alaina Browne at 4:05PM on 12/22/08