It’s just something I’ve always been curious about but never got to understand. Why do people put an apple in a pig’s mouth?
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It’s just something I’ve always been curious about but never got to understand. Why do people put an apple in a pig’s mouth?
It’s a way to “portray the life and death cycle” – quite deep lol
I read somewhere (I forgot where) that hundreds of years ago, people would fatten the pigs with apples, and so they would put the fruit in the mouth of a roasted pig to symbolize how they ate apples. So an apple in a roasted pig’s mouth convey that the pig ate apples in both life and death.
+1 on this, but also just aesthetic. Roasting tightens the pigs’ jaw, and it makes the mouth open as if it’s snarling. So, people put an apple fill in that open mouth and make the face less scary.
Some also overcomplicate it and say that it’s to keep the mouth open so that any “toxic gasses” can come out or that heat can come inside the pig, but that’s not true. If that’s the case, then the apple in the pig’s mouth will be cooked, but the apples we see on a roasted pig’s mouth are all raw, meaning they’re put after the pig is cooked.