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My fondest pork memory is of my first BLT sandwich. My mom was not home and I was about 7 years old. My dad never made lunch for the kids but this time he was stuck.

Somehow he pulled up the memory of BLT and we ate like kings. Ever since then, I have loved bacon, ham steak, ham sandwich, and ham salad sandwich. I am hooked!

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My favorite cut is London Broil because I can cook it so many ways and my kids always think it is the best, however I cook it.

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

My fondest pork memory is of my first BLT sandwich. My mom was not home and I was about 7 years old. My dad never made lunch for the kids but this time he was stuck.

Somehow he pulled up the memory of BLT and we ate like kings. Ever since then, I have loved bacon, ham steak, ham sandwich, and ham salad sandwich. I am hooked!

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Dinner Tonight: Potato, Chicken, Green Bean, Egg, and Avocado Salad in an Herb Mayonnaise

My favorite cut is London Broil because I can cook it so many ways and my kids always think it is the best, however I cook it.

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

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

My favorite pork memory is nice crisp bacon on a winter morning. I just love it . Thanks!
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Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Zingerman's Praise the Lard Gift Box

I bought my husband a smoker for his birthday this past summer - the look of pride and accomplishment on his face when he completed his first "perfect" rack of baby back ribs will remain with me forever.

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

Bacon in an ancient (okay, just really old) cast iron skillet...with eggs right after, fried up in the bacon fat so that the get a crisp ring around the outside.

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Ok, I'll use a different one from last time...
Realizing my brother's (NOW EX, though sadly, not because of this) girlfriend had poisoned me with ham, which put me off all pork products for about 5 years. Everyone else ate the same ham, and I got violently ill from her serving me...
I lost 15 lbs. over the course of the next week, and I was pretty thin at that time, so it was grotesque. Why is this a favorite? Because I recall it fondly, and how I was so right when I sneered at her "I was here before you, and I'll be here after you! Suck it!" even though she did poison me. Hahahaha.

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It's a tie -- between (1) the day I realized that all of the flavor in a pork chop is right next to the bone (I know, I know, DUH), because that changed my life, and (2) eating suckling pig in Spain, with that super crisp thin skin and melt-in-your mouth soft, fatty baby piggie meat inside.

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My fondest memory was when I was four years old and went to Germany to visit our relatives when they came one morning grabbing pigs from the front and back and throwing them on a truck to go to the butcher and having all kinds of meats and wursts from it for dinner.

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

Every time we get bacon at the supermarket (usually from Whole Foods), we render all of the fat from the bacon and spend a month using the rendered fat to make everything else taste more delicious.

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

I used to babysit for pig farmers. They always had really fresh pork products there!

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

pork betty at bozu in williamsburg. melt in your mouth pork belly. can't beat it.

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

Dad always made bacon on Sunday mornings. You would wake up to the smell of bacon :)

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My father made baked beans with a thick layer of blanched salt pork on top. Great Northern Beans, onions, a little tomato. Not sweet. Seriously porky.

And the next day, a baked bean sandwich: cold, porky beans crushed into the bread with pepper and butter on the other piece of bread. I never learned my father's recipe and have failed in imitating it. I miss the pork and beans.

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My dad's red stewed pork shoulder....and gramma's sweet and sour ribs...::drool::

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I grew up Muslim so I still remember the first time I was introduced to pork. I was seated in my Christian grandmother's kitchen on a large stool when she gave me a slice ham to snack on. I liked it so much I started clapping (somewhat akin to a seal) and begging for more, which she immediately gave me by dangling in front of me, which I then promptly snatched (again, somewhat akin to a seal). After trying bacon the following summer, it was only a few years before I was officially a convert.

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My fondest memory is of my mothers pork roast dinners she would make. She was from Denmark and this is a very popular dinner for the Danes.

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Ribs. Tender, smokey, tangy with BBQ sauce, carmelized perfection on the grill, ribs. Baby back or regular, country style or bone-in...I just love those ribs!

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I would have to say that my fondest memory of pork would be,
years ago my sister-in-law at that time they live they on a farm.
They had a pig roast which I had never been to before that time.
I had a super good time and the way that the pig was roasted made the meat very tender and very good, even tho I thought it was weird keeping the head on. Thank you

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There's just nothing better than bacon for a weekend breakfast. My mom used nothing-special bacon and cooked it in the microwave but it still always tasted perfect.

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I invited one of the children's friends over for dinner since they were still playing and had planned to serve pork chops (which we all liked) and only when I removed them from the fridge did I realize I was one short. Lucky for me the kids were light eaters because I had my share from eating their leftovers. In retrospect, I should have sliced them up prior to cooking!

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