Hog producers who go to the Pork Expo in June won't come away empty-handed. There's all kinds of cool gifts and mementos to bring home.
Yes, it's unique all right. Not many desktop items symbolize your role in the slaughter of over a hundred million living beings each year. But this pig cell phone holder isn't just decorative. When the call comes in from the boys on the farm that they were playing around with the piglets, maybe got a little carried away with those sharp metal stakes, that some of the undercover footage might not go over so well when it hits the local news, the hog producer can take that call using his pig cell phone holder!
Pig Lighter. It's only human nature. People get to boasting. Hog producers are no different. They start comparing numbers, going for bragging rights. "You processed fifty thousand last month? Ha, that's nothing. I could slaughter fifty thousand in my sleep. Says who? Says me." Then just when things are about to get heated, the hog producer pulls out his pig lighter and offers to light his competitor's cigar and camaraderie reigns once again. And note the placement of the lighter device, right where the stun bolt shatters the pig's skull. "It's perfectly aimed, right above the brain. Maybe I should hire the guy." This observation can make a good ice breaker when the hog producer experiences any awkward lulls in social settings or when he simply needs a fresh supply of banter to amuse other folks in the pork production world.
An adorable plush pig that, according to the product description, makes an "oink oink" sound when you squeeze it. I don't mean to find fault. The Pork expo gift committee is no doubt harried and overworked. But is "oink oink" the only sound they could think of making? What about the screams of ungodly terror at the pig's final moments. That's what the hog producer wants memorialized. That way when his kids ask him what sound does a pig make, Daddy, daddy can squeeze the plush toy, which emits the terrified wailing of the slowly dying hog, and say, "that's the sound a pig makes, kids."
Yes, the product description is right. This handmade treasure is sure to be passed down from generation to generation. A rope tailed oak piggy bank like this has family heirloom written all over it. I even think the folks at the pork expo gift committee were a little too modest. It won't just be passed down. Future generations will fight over it. Who did grandpa Pig Slaughterer leave the roped tailed pig bank to? Families have dissolved over less than this.
Anyhow, this is just a small sampling of the exciting gifts available at the Pork Expo.
