the other white meat
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the other white meat
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From a slogan used by the National Pork Board to promote the sale of pork in the United States in the 1980s. Although some cuts are lighter, pork is typically classified as red meat. The horror sense emerged from the use of long pork as a euphemism for human meat (this coinage being based on its reputedly pork-like taste).
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- Pork. If you think you have to serve fish or fowl to get the light, wholesome nutrition and easy convenience that today's lifestyles demand, take a fresh look at pork — the other white meat.
- Human flesh, in the context of cannibalism. A normal human corpse is considered to have three servings of "the other white meat."
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title = {the other white meat},
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