What’s that stuff hanging out of this dude’s mouth? If you guessed pig fat, you’d be right. This was the weekend of the pig fat festival in Lutsk - that’s in Ukraine - and shame on you if you missed it. We have pictures of folks holding up long pig fat sandwiches, people enjoying pig fat with gherkins and vodka, and so on, but this one picture says it best. 
Volodymur Stregalin eats a piece of salo (pig’s fat) during a salo eating contest in Lutsk some 250 miles northwest of Kiev October 22, 2006. Stregalin ate 2.2 pounds of salo in 25 minutes. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
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Gotta love Dr. Atkins!
- Posted by Shawn HendricksJack Spratt’s dirty little secret.
- Posted by Shawn HendricksTwo days later comes the Other White Meat festival.
- Posted by Shawn HendricksHey, isn’t “long pig” human flesh?
- Posted by Paul DeMartinoFirst, I dont know that there has ever been a direct link shown between heart disease and eating animal fat. Links between begin overweight and heart disease, links between activity and heart disease sure.
Second, you should probably consider the genetics of the people in the area. Both my parents were born in Ukraine, and I dont believe that I can even remember a meal at my grandparents house that didnt involve multiple meat dishes and plenty of sour cream and butter. Ukrainians actually have a word for a meal without sour cream or butter. I dont know of anyone in my family that died of heart disease, and most of the family of my grandparents generation lived into their 80s and 90s
- Posted by Mark