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My very first homemade BLT piled high with a shameless amount of bacon. Every last bite was decadent perfection. More bacon, more better.

The first time I had a bacon grilled cheese. It was as if a light bulb went off in my head saying "wow, bacon really does make everything better... especially when paired with hot gooey cheese". From than on I have ascribed to that mentality, that bacon makes just about everything better.

dad's pasta sauce, chock full of sausages, spare ribs, meatballs, and goodness every christmas eve

My fondest pork memory is half food, half sentiment. Whenever I went camping with my grandparents, we would have bacon in some way, shape, or form at almost every meal. With eggs in the morning, in grilled cheese sandwiches at lunch, and in the beans (along with smoked pork shoulder) for dinner. They knew that I loved it and wasn't allowed to have it at home very often ("too much fat and cholesterol" yes, I had been informed of the perils of cholesterol by age 5). As much as I love bacon, the main thing that occurs to me now, when I smell the delicious, smokey aroma, is how much I miss those camping trips.

I grew up in a Portuguese community, in Southeastern Massachusetts. To this day, one of my favorite breakfasts is linguica and eggs. YUM!

Smoking my first pork shoulder and having it come out better than 95% of the BBQ joints around Atlanta.

six course mulefoot dinner at Blackbird

my grandmother's pork shoulder roasts on sundays. so good.

When Grandma decided to make pork head cheese. Mom had just arrived, and peeked in the pot to see what was cooking!! Boy was she sorry :o)

Miss Piggy was my aunt's pet. When I visited one summer she wasn't in her wallow. I asked where she was and my aunt pointed to the freezer. The end of innocence but the beginning of a love of pork...

Wild boar roast on a camping trip out on Lake Okeechobee

perfect crispy bacon with a side of over easy eggs and homefries...

East meets Southeast Pulled Pork Sandwich with Quick Cooked Collard Greens, which I made with my housemate as a pre-Christmas house dinner. Yum!

My first pig roast with all the good Cuban fixins.

Carving the Christmas ham with my grandfather.

Roasting a whole pig over an outdoor fire pit in the middle of winter with several Indonesian chefs after a long night of bartending at the sushi bar. Everyone fought over the ears and knuckles.

The first time I tasted Parma prosciutto

Arriving in England for the first time, jetlagged and nervous, and my then-boyfriend's mother making me "cheese on toast with bacon on top". English bacon is the best thing.

My fondest memory is when Porgy (no joke) made the most succulent, decadent baked stuff pork cops on a snowy Thursday night 15 years ago.

Oh, first prosciutto IS a good one...but I'd have to say the first time I had REAL barbeque. Ribs. Yum.

My first batch of fresh breakfast sausage...I was so impressed with myself, (and it WAS good)....

first taste of chorizo

My favorite pork memory is from several years ago. For a party we roasted a whole pig in pit overnight. It was a huge success and everyone went back for seconds and thirds.

the first time i had a blt. one of the few things my mom didn't burn.

This summer I feasted upon prosciutto and mozzerella di buffalo on baguette, drizzled with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Amazing.

My first taste of country ham was memorable for a not so good reason. The person preparing it didn't soak it first and it was way too salty. Took me awhile to find out how good they can be.

Eating spare ribs as a child when we went out for Chinese food

I went to Puerto Rico last summer and we drove to this little town where Anthony Bourdain had gone to eat pork. We had roasted posrk and it was so delicious!!!

Staying at my grandmother's and having sausage gravy over biscuits and then sometimes she made a gravy with sausage to go over the pancakes. yum

BLT with avocado

carnitas, cooked in lard.

The look on my Jewish uncle's face when my redneck boyfriend asked for a ham and cheese sandwich in the first 10 minutes of being at his house (after being coached by me that there would be no ham).

The smell of bacon filling the house every Sunday morning growing up.

Thank you

my first honeybaked ham on christmas

pork tamales at the Tamale Festival in Indio, Ca.

my buddies annual pig roast.

pork belly at a chinese banquet in Taipei

My mom's pork roast dinners on Sundays after Church.

my mom using it in her baked beans,yum

Discovering how delicious barbeque is after not eating meat for 10+ years.

thick-sliced pork belly on choucroute garni in Alsace-Lorraine

Neighborhood pig roasts as a kid. Plenty of food and fun to wrap up the summer and get ready to head back to school.

My fondest pork memory would be a delicious meal my grandmother served me years ago of a delicious pork roast with gravy over a homemade waffle!

Whe I was stationed in Hawaii in 1969 I went to a hawaian wedding of a freind. They did a whole hog in a pit. It was the best pork I've ever eaten.

Hmmm... it would have to be my first (and only) pig roast. Yum!

My grandparents lived next door when I was a kid. I'd get up early so I could chat with grandpa as we ate the delicious bacon and eggs he made us before he left for work.

Kalua pig. Juicy!

Biting into a BLT with the 1st ripe tomato of the summer, with thick sliced bacon, mayo (real), & crip lettuce on whole wheat toast

Having my grandmothers teach me to make homemade pork sausage. I learned how to make that and so much more from scratch thanks to them

my mom's homemade pulled pork- delicious!

My grandmother's pork roast with carrots and potatoes. The gravy she makde from the drippings was to die for. Thank you for the chance to win.

I remember going out to gather eggs and get home cured bacon at my great aunts. I loved that bacon.

When me and my sweetie pit roasted a whole piggie for our friends before we left for the big city. It was so awesome!

Alton Brown's city ham recipe for Christmas this year

christmas ham at my parents' place every year. this was the first year doing christmas away from them (at my wife's parents' place), but mom gave me the leftovers when i visited that weekend.

My fondest pork memory is traveling on vacation through Texas, from Dallas-Fort Worth to Houston to San Antonio to Austin--and stopping at different barbecue joints to try the pork bbq.

The first time I had bacon wrapped chicken thighs.

The first time I had pork chops at Perrys in Houston.

My momo use to cook pepper bacon that was thick and crisp.The smell would wake every person in the house up.I can still remember cold mornings waking up to that great smell.I really miss her and that great pepper bacon.I haven't had or seen any in years untill I came to this site today.Yall brought back some great memories!

dreamland bbq!

The first time I tried applewood smoked bacon and learned that there was other bacon out there besides what you find in a grocery store. Heaven!

My grandmother's por roast with dark mushroom gravy, sauerkraut and mashed potatoes. There is nothing better in this or any other world!

Growing up in a mostly German home, pork was a staple in our diet-in many ways. I still make the country pork ribs with sauerkraut that my grandmother made often.

Waking up to the smell of bacon frying at my Grandfather's. He made the best scrambled eggs and bacon. Thanks for reminding me of the memory.

mom making homemade bbq pork

The first time we butchered pigs

Vietnamese hoagies -- grilled pork with all the fixings

Brined pork chops on the grill (charcoal, of coarse)

Mmmm, chorizo is so good. The turkey stuffing was based on cornbread, chorizo, and goat cheese. I'm also fond of bacon in a salad with spinach, balsamic vinaigrette dressing, mandarin slices, pecans.

Being of German descent, my dads pork roast & bavarian kraut was the best. When it was simmering I could smell it down the block.

pork and sauerkraut on New Years Day

Ever since I could remember, the sound of an electric knife on christmas eve meant that Aunt Pearl was carving up her famous Christmas ham, only to be served with her even more famous Potato Salad. We could put the ham on sandwhiches or eat the slices by themselves, it was simple but simple has a 'home' feel to me.

The first time my mom made pork chops with applesauce. Yum.

When my mom made them with rice and brownies for dessert.

My favorite memory is from when I was a kid and my grandma would make cracklins' when they butchered a pig. They were delicious and it was fun to be with my grandma.

discovering the deliciousness that is Chorizo!

Mom would always tell us to parboil the ribs before grilling them!

Learning how to butcher a pig a couple of years ago at [location redacted disclosed due to lack of USDA certification] with the farmer who raised the delicious Tamworth hog. And then cooking, curing, and generally savoring every bit of that delicious pig.

the 1st time I smelled bacon

Having pork chops for Sunday dinner with my family. All the family would gather after church for a special meal.

I would say the teriyaki pork tenderloin my husband made which was very good.

making bacon and eating it at grandmas when mom and dad decided to be vegetarians- oh the bacon and salami- I was in heaven baby yeh

Any pork memory counts as a fondest memory.

I have always loved crisp bacon and the biggest memory is when mom made it dippedit cheese sauce and put on a blt- yumm

My first Christmas, and our first vacation was spent helping my father with his pork side business. Every year he raised ten hogs, then had them slaughtered and we would then prepare them,package them, etc. as ordered by his customers. Our payback was our own hog, prepared as we wanted....Of course, we had to do all the work to prepare and package our own.

My sweet late mother loved BLT sandwiches and I can still see her face smiling when she waited for her sandwich to be made at her local coffee shop. It was the only thing she ordered. Now it is my favorite sandwich!
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I vividly remember as a young child being awoken by the smell of bacon mom was preparing for breakfast. That was probably the first time I really truly started my love of bacon.

Bacon-wrapped, maple-glazed fresh salmon steaks. A friend had just gone fishing and we wanted to cook them up, and that was what we had in the fridge. Cooked the bacon to almost-done, marinated the steaks in maple syrup and a bit of soy sauce, wrapped them in foil and tossed 'em on the bbq. The outside was a crispy, faintly salted shell, and the inside was pure deliciousness. Every forkful was like unwrapping a present for my taste buds.

First annual Beer & Bacon party. BYOB (Bacon). House provided all the beer, each attendee had to provide one pound of bacon. When 37 pounds of cooked bacon went in 15 minutes, someone had to go on a Bacon run. The house smelled like bacon for more than a week.

When I was young and first married, I wanted to make him a nice ham dinner. I got recipes and dressed the ham so it was perfect. My step-mom helped me via the telephone. When the "ham" was done, I realized that it didn't look quite right - seems I bought a pork shoulder roast instead of an actual ham! My husband ate it - pineapples on top and all!

a BLT With fresh homegrown tomatoes in the summer

For our company picnic, the guys cooked a whole pig. I have never seen so much grease. I have to admit that it was soooooo good.

pork rinds!!

The first time that my father, brothers and I got together for what has become a Christmas Eve tradition: making dozens of coils of sausage for the holiday season.

Pork shoulder cooked for 6 hrs in the oven. The outside was crunchy and salty. The meat was juicy and succulent. I tore hunks off to eat right away.

I mostly love telling non-Jews that Jewish people who don't keep kosher LOVE bacon. It's fun to watch them reconcile that in their heads. But of course, it's true. My mom won't touch the stuff at home, but take her to a diner for lunch, and it's a good bet that she'll order a BLT.

The bridge to nowhere.

Now I don't really believe it works too well--but on New Year's day since I was a little boy, we have had pork for dinner. Pork and sauerkraut is to insure that you aren't broke during the year--or have money. Guess it works as I've always had some--maybe not a lot-but enough.

Mom frying a whole package of bacon for German style potato salad on Thanksgiving, and getting to eat the spare slices. Delish!

BLT's. Or eating chinese boneless BBQ ribs on XMAS.

my memory would be watching the pig roast real slow and the pork skins just popping up on the pig and we start eating them.

Every summer I would stay with my grandmother and she made the best biscuits and sausage gravy ever.

For a recipe contest I once won a year's supply of bacon and my husband went wild with ecstasy hollering: "Yahoo! A year's supply of meat candy!"
Then we found out I won 12 bacon COUPONS; for a brand not available in our part of the country. So, what makes this memory a fond one for me? Ever since that day, we've called bacon "meat candy" at our house. :)

It was a perfect pulled pork sandwich in Austin. Mmm.

BBQ pork.Good old fashion pick picking in the backyard .Mom made her own BBQ sauce was delicious !

I had an unbelievable grilled sausage when I was in Catalonia. No fancy sauces, just a well made sausage cooked on over a wood fire on a grill. mmm

Bacon cooking at my grandmas farm. Nothing like being outside collecting eggs and smelling bacon!

The very first time I had home made Bar-B-Q pulled pork, OMG it just melted in my mouth, even tho I have cholesterol issues I have pulled pork as often and I can

the first time I had country ham in the Commonwealth of Virginia

Of course it would be waking up to the smell of bacon every Sunday morning when I was growing up. Mom would make a nice big breakfast each week and it was my favorite meal of the day.

My most recent favorite memory has to be the pork bun at Momofuku Ssam Bar in NYC. But my most enduring pork memory dates back to my childhood when my mother, grandmother and great-grandmother would make their Sunday ragu sauces to go over rigatoni or ravioli. This long-simmering sauce contained tomatoes, garlic, onion, basil and parsley, but never oregano. But what gave it its distinctive flavor was pork, and lots of it. My favorite version of this sauce had sweet and hot Italian sausages and pork neck bones in it. My grandpa, my mother and I used to fight over the bones when dinner was served. The meat was falling off the bone, tender and succulent. I have tried recreating this family sauce countless times, but living in NYC it is hard to get pork neck bones in my neighborhood and other cuts of pork, such as spareribs and country style ribs, don't deliver quite the same flavor.

Love all of these pork posts!

My fondest memory of pork was when my son had an openhouse for his wedding. He had lived in the Phillipines for two years and wanted to follow their weddint tradition of roasting a whole pig on a spit. He rented a large outdoor rotisserie barbeque and cooket the pig, head still on, on the spit. He prepared Phillipino side dishes to serve with the roasted pig and it was delicious. It is one meat that we will never forget.

My fondest bacon memory is waking up as a little girl while spending summers with my grandparents. Breakfast at home was always cereal, but "Nana" woke me up to the smell of hot sizzling bacon.

Salt cured hams from my grandfather's free range pigs.

The first time I had fresh pork not from a store. It was delicious.

I STILL miss the fresh bratwurst from when I was growing up in Germany! I have had some here in the US that comes close ... but it isn't quite the same!!

The first time I ever had real BBQ in Memphis, TN ... I was hooked!

A great pig roast

The bacon at Peter Luger in Brooklyn.

My first time tasting a roasted pig.

My father's roasted pork leg (pernil) that cooked for hours and tasted heavenly... I sure miss it!

The first time I went to a real pig roast...on a farm in rural Maryland...and we got to just pick at the carcass. SWOON!

Full BBQ pig roast at my brother's grad party...mmm...it was so good and we had so much leftover that we froze it and ate it for weeks

The first piece of pork belly I ever had last year

Making my own version of pulled pork...yum!

bacon and eggs every new years day for luck!

Absolutely shameless...I remember that on my honeymoon, our first dinner together. Ordered in, if you know what I mean. That I ordered two BLTs...for me. Yes, my husband sat shaking his head as he ate his steak dinner, wondering why with the entire menu at my disposal that I would order BLTs. What can I tell you...I do love my bacon. Add a slice of avocado, some lettuce and tomato, on a slice of fresh bread and I'm in heaven.

Hey! Don't just sit there...pass the mayo!

So many bacon/ham/prosciutto memories, but the good smell that lingers is the one from an itinerant Missouri mother living in mid-California during the very early seventies (there because her husband did railroad work), who took care of my son occasionally while I tended a little bookstore, and who made, with bacon grease, the most heavenly bread. It was always warm. It was outrageously good. I wouldn't even try to replicate it, but I so remember it, very, very fondly!

My grandmother whenever should would get ready to make homemade spaghetti sauce would make fried baby pork ribs in the cast iron skillet. They were crispy and delicious.

Carolina pulled pork sandwich with a dollop of slaw on top. YUMMY!

A house full of company and the smell of Nueske's bacon!

My fondest pork memory would have to be when I was 16 on my first deer hunting trip, the morning of opening day waking up to the smell of bacon in the air. There is something about bacon being cooked in the mountains makes it taste like no other bacon in the world............

Biscuits and pork gravy -- this morning's breakfast

Pernil, Cuban style pork which is the most wonderful pork this nice Jewish girl ever tasted. I can vividly remember the huge party a friends family threw and how I could not believe how great this pork was. I remember the day vividly, the party was great, but the pernil really rocked my world.

My favorite pork memory is the first bacon and tomato sandwich I make each summer when the tomatoes are ripe from the garden. It's the best sandwich I eat all year.

Pig roasts at Bike Week in Laconia NH.....always brings a smile to my face to remember.

Tasting the first bites of pork chops from hogs we raised - the best!

The first time I ever had a bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich, at the Donut Dugout on Route 46 in Pine Brook, NJ. I was 8, and it was the most glorious thing I'd ever eaten.

When I was a kid, our elderly neighbors slaughtered a hog every fall and smoked the hams, hocks, and bacon in their cinderblock smokehouse out back. You could smell the meat smoking all over the neighborhood and it smelled so good that it would make you drool. Us kids always knew when they were bringing the meat down from hanging and we'd go beg for a piece.

When I was a freshman at a college in Kentucky, I had a sausage biscuit, my first. OMG, it was heaven! Hog heaven :-)! I had never eaten such delicious food! It was only when I was in my late 20s that I learned that both biscuits and sausage are not exactly healthy, but oh, my, don't they taste good!

We had a great time this summer at a friend's pig roast party. Yummy food and fun times with good friends.

The first time making pork chile verde... delish.

My first pulled pork sandwich stands out in my memory. It was so tasty, so tender, so moist. A friend made it and I have never tasted another as good as that one.

Friends of mine enlisted the help of thier biker uncle and his friends to cook a pig in the ground. It was a very long night of peeling garlic and none too few beers drank in the process, but my goodness that was some of the best I've had.

The first time eating thick-sliced bacon..so much better than regular!

i can remember my mom frying bacon all the time

Either really good ham or bacon, real crisp!

BBQ Ribs at a southern picnic. OMG, amazing amazing amazing.

my favorite blt memory! The Bellagio in Las Vegas, Lots of bacon, lettuce, tomato and... the best part was the avocado, and I split it with my husband. It was big and delicious and a great memory! Happy New Year

My favorite memory is of my dad frying bacon and eggs on Sunday morning.

A steaming pot of white beans and ham hocks. The ultimate cold-weather comfort food.

my mom took us to woolworth's diner and ordered me a club BLT - my life has never been the same :)

My fondest memories were at Mom's house in West Virginia.Her seasoned pork roasts were delicious and tender.

My fondest memories are always of ham! Spiral sliced, ham steaks, however it comes (except in a can)!

...favorite pork memory: my Mom making stuffed pork chops for my birthday dinner(s) as a kid.

Grandma's braciole

eating ham in front of my now hubby...he didnt know Jews could eat pork. we still laugh about it to this day.

During cold weather, my dad used to purchase pork rinds from his favorite meat market. He love to cook and would cook them to crispy perfection and season them with our favorite seasoning salt. I remember our family working on a puzzle together during a rainy day and him serving us the hot pork rinds and hot chocolate.

Mom making butterflied fried pork from scratch

Going to the bratwurst cart with my father and eating a bratwurst & Coke.

My grandfather always makes fried ham after Christmas, from the ham he spent all day baking.

So many pork memories, how to select a single one? This time around, I'll recall the first time I had carnitas and realizing "this is PORK?" I can't eat Mexican food anyplace that doesn't have some form of carnitas...

My first "Pig Pickin'". Delicious!

Bacon and pancake breakfast at my Grandmas. The more bacon, the better!

I grew up in a rural area and my Mom worked with a women who was also a large hog farmer. My favorite pork memory was seeing one of their prize pigs named after my Mom and listed in an auction book.

My Grandma's biscuits and sausage gravy :)

I had real Hungarian pork goulash when I first had the opportunity to travel to Budapest!

When I was little my mom used to cook breakfast for my brother, sister and I on the weekends she was off from work and she would always make sausage links and eggs with cottage cheese on the side for us. EVERYTIME I have sausage links I think back on when I was a kid and having breakfast with my family, I don't get to see my sister very often and my brother has passed on so it always brings forth nice memories.

a whole roasted hog dinner.

Carnitas - a mexican roast pork dish is my all time favorite!

Tie between pork dip sandwiches & butterflied fried pork shared with family

I once made a 15 bean soup with a ham bone. It stewed in my crockpot all day long. I made a beautiful dinner but everyone wanted that soup. It was a great ham bone!!!

when i was a 5 year old in 1950, my grandma cooking eggs, pork chops in lard...yum..yum

My fondest memory of pork, was when I lived on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. We use to have Island Luau's.this included putting a whole pig , wrapped in Ti leaves,on hot coals to cook for the day, while we all did fun activities for the day.
Yummmmmmmm!

My first pig roast. It was so funny to see the fully cooked pig carried around the table on a big wooden tray by four hefty men.
The meat was succulent and perfectly cooked.
This happenned over 25 years ago and it is still one of my favorite special meal memories.

Bacon gravy and buscuits puts a smile on my face like I'm thinking about sex. As a matter of fact, my bacon and sausage gravy is so good, My husband is hard pressed to prioritize which he'd like more as a special breakfast.

slow roasted pork--love the smell

Any excellent bbq rib is a fond memory.

my fondest memories were the pork "creations" my sister and I used to make. We would make bacon and whipped cream sandwiches, which were awful, but we would call ourselves chefs. What do you want? We were only 6 and 7 years old

Pork chops, mashed potatoes, creamed corn and rolls. Nothing but good ole comfort food. Sure do miss Grandma!

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Family dinner when my father-in-law made a roast pig with an apple in its mouth. Delish!

Ham on Easter Sunday with all my family.

pork chops

my first saurbraten

pig pickin's I attended as a kid

Smelling bacon on a cold winter Saturday morning . . . definately something to get out of bed for!

Growing up in Pennsylvania Dutch country meant pork and sauerkraut for New Years for me. Sweet and stinky smells steamed up the kitchen for hours.

Eating my own home cured & smoked bacon for the first time (and every time after that!)

Bacon, Bacon, Bacon...and anything made with bacon, my true love! LOL

My mother's pork loin every New Year's Day! It is a tradition in our home as well! Brings good luck for the year. I am totally into food traditions and this is the only one my family has with pork.

The first time I tasted North Carolina BBQ.

I learned to appreciate Schwank, french fries, and gravy in Germany. I like Schwank because it tends to turn out more moist than other types of chops.

We visited our family in Germany, and the butchers came for some pigs in the morning. One was slaughtered for the family, and we had all kinds of delicious wurst, sausages, and pigs feet from it.

just waking up as a kid walking out of your bedroom and the smell of bacon in the air ahh

my grandmother's ham biscuits.....yummy

my very first tenderloin

Pork..the food of the Gods..and how the Gods must have wept when I put away over a dozen footlong pork sauges to put the young bucks who thought they could out eat me in their place....bradkrau

Has to be the first time I ate a Roast Pork Sandwich at Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia from DiNic's -- from that moment on, cheesesteak lost all meaning to me.

smoking a pork butt outside my home this past Thanksgiving. Deeelish!

sharing BLT's with fresh sun ripen garden tomato's with my mom.

My grandma would render fat from a small slab of bacon. She used the fat to make different rice dishes (she was Spanish and that was a staple in the household) and then she would give us the cracklins for us to eat. That was such a treat!

My fondest pork memory is trying the Mo's Bacon Bar for the first time. ;0P

Pulled pork with bark on it right out of the smoker.

Sunday family dinners with pork roast are some of my fondest memories. I can still smell the dinners even now.

My Grandmother Friend's homemade sausage with buckwheat pancakes

Pig-a-palooza 2008: we roasted a pig to celebrate the college graduation of our son and high school graduation of our daughter in June.

My father was a butcher in a large, chain supermarket. He made extra money in the fall and winter butchering meat that farmers had killed. I can remember helping him make sausage in huge bowls very late at night in some farmer's barn or shed. He always carried his own tables, and equipment. The farmer would always give him some of the sausage, ham or other meat. That sausage was the best i have ever had.

My fondest memory is my mom made her awesome porkchops for dinner, but... she kinda got sidetracked and burnt them on one side. My brother and his best friend got home for dinner and my mom served them the porkchops burnt side down, well my brother took his first bite looked on the bottom and said "I'm not eating these they're burnt" Well my mom with the sternest look said "Your eating everylast bit of them"... but she couldn't hold her stern look and we all started laughing.... After that we always checked our porkchops before eating them...LOL

My Grandmother making BLTs on lazy Sunday afternoons.

the smell of bacon cooking on the coleman stove in the early, early mornings of a camping trip

My first pulled pork sandwich was heavenly

Pork chops and applesauce

the smell of bacon cooking in the morning when i woke up

my first taste of really good bacon

The first sweet and sour pork roast I made many years ago.It was so juicy,and the juices were dark and rich!!!

perfect crispy bacon

I have a very sad pork memory that is always the first in my mind. My grandfather had a pig that had babies, and he pointed to one and said that one was mine. I called him Casper, and he was such a cute little piglet. He lived at my grandfather's house and I would go see him and the other pigs every time I visited. When they grew up, though, we ate them, including Casper. It was good, but I'm glad I didn't have to see my little pig being killed.

Nothing like Shake'n'Bake Pork with applesauce when you're a kid in the 80's!

Watching The Brady Bunch gave me my favorite pork meal EVER! The first time we had 'pork-chawps and apple saushe' was pure heaven.

my first "wet" tenderloin...breaded and soaked in gravy...

BLT is all you need to say!!!!!!!!!!!

Hawaiian Kaluia pork butt. Not to mention the roast pig that has been cooking all day in the specially prepared hole in the ground. I just love almost any kind of pork dish.

Bacon for breakfast

A favorite memory of mine is sitting around the kitchen table with my brothers and sisters on Saturday morning eating peanutbutter toast with crisp, crumbled bacon on top.

Drop biscuits with my grandmothers gravy. She always added too much black pepper for most folks, but it was just enough to wake up your innards and get you ready for a hard day of working on the farm.

Watching Black Elvis perform at the annual High On The Hog celebration in Richmond VA while eating my very first pulled pork sandwich.

Good Times!

BLT 's with benedictine and sprouts. Yum!

spaghetti Carbonara

it had to be the time i did a pork shoulder in my crock-pot...oh boy was it tender

Our favorite breakfast every weekend is Eggs, Bacon and bagels and orange juice. Love weekend breakfasts.

My friend Jim's pig roast - yum.

I had these carnitas down in CA that were so delicious...I am going to take my husband back to the same area just so I can share them with him.

The smell of bacon frying when you wake up.

Back when you cooked ham with the skin still on, I loved the crisp pork skin hot out of the oven. Pork skins sold in a bag don't come anywhere near this wonderful taste.

OMG -- the best pork ribs I've ever eaten at a place called The Pink Pig in South Carolina. It's just over the border -- we had read about it online and when we stopped at the Welcome Center, the ladies who worked there even knew the place! One of them called ahead for us to make sure they were open and even gave us detailed directions on how to get there. The owner/cook came out and sat at our table with us when we told him how we'd found them, and he fed us samples of different things, asking our opinion. But I have to say I have never in my life eaten ribs that were soooo tender and so tasty. Not a bit of sauce was needed!

My fondest memory was ham at Christmas like seven years ago my whole family were all still here and it was delicious and wonderful.

I would have to say my fondest memory is the whole family sitting down on New Years Day eating pork and sauerkraut. There is not many family members left but we still have the same tradition.

BBQ wild boar my bf killed.

my mother always made awesome stuffed pork chops i can almost taste them now :)~~

Our neighbor brought over 3 lbs of ham once because she has way overbought for Christmas dinner. She was so embarrassed it was kind of cute. We enjoyed it though, and we laugh about it every time we share food together.

My memory is of my dear son (4yrs old) and Bacon... He refused to eat anything that was "pig" because Charlotte's Web... Well one day he stole a pick of Bacon off my plate and fell in love with bacon... I didn't have the heart to tell him it was pig but of course in walks Dad and "So you decided to eat some piggy bacon?"... My sons eyes went wide.... he slowly chewed... looked right at Dad and said "NOPE just plain old bacon Dad... Mommy said so" then proceeded to grab the rest of the bacon off my plate and happily ate it all....

Bacon and pancakes on Sunday mornings

I think that I gained 5 lbs. just by reading the comments.
My favorite pork memory is the first time that I had a Cuban pulled pork and onion sandwich. I can remember how good it was and still love to get one whenever I'm in Florida.

oh, so many pork memories! when i was a little girl, my grandfather worked as a professional cook. he would bring us sausages and bacon every sunday morning to eat with hardrolls. don't be haters!!! what can i say? my childhood was pretty perfect.

My husband bbq'd country ribs, basted with his homemade bbq sauce......mmmmmm

My fondest pork memory is of applewood smoked bacon in Charleston. With grits. And sweet tea. YUM!

Easter Sunday ham with all the "fixins' "

There was a restaurant in Orlando, Florida, that had the best bbq pork...we would eat there at least once to two times a week. They have since closed but I still have fond memories of their bbq pork.

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.

PBJBB-Peanut butter jelly banana bacon.

Te fist hing that I can recall is the Scotch eggs my mther used to make. She would wrap spiced ground pork around hard boiled eggs and deep fry them till golden brown. She would serve it with German mustard but I liked it with maple syrup.