Tag: Metzger

When Pigs Make Merry

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I’ve shown a collection of butchery signs before. I still keep wondering why the pigs depicted on butchery signs always smile and appear to be really happy. That post is kind of dismembered (ha!) so I will add the relevant pictures below.

This mural on the wall of a butchery takes this concept of happy pigs a step further. It’s a family of pigs at a sunday feast with ham and liverwurst and a coffee cake. And a single pig about to happily munch a whole chain of pork sausages.

Weird but also well executed.

Photographing Public Art Challenge #9

Painted pigs

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23 sign 1

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I keep wondering why butcheries and restaurants who have pork on their menues have happy pigs on their signs. Has anyone asked the pigs?  Do the pigs who posed for the pictures feel ashamed that they are selling out?

The one exception is the wild boar, the emblem for a small brewery in Frankonia.  It’s a good beer so no wondering why the pig is happy.

I think Cee was thinking of different signs but here they are.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Signs.