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It’s a pig’s life
Our horrified tales of chickengammon and turkeybacon have prompted several of you to write in with tales of contracting or holidaying in countries that don’t eat pigs.
Cliff Lawson recalls the Maldives (holiday, Amstrad doesn’t have an office there), where the bacon is made of beef. ‘If you close your eyes you can almost imagine that the thin strips of beef, with added streaky fat, steeped in salty water once led a porcine life,’ he says, not convincing us for a second.
John Butler’s experience of beefbacon was as a survey engineer on a Saudi oil rig. ‘It was marginally more digestible than frying my Rig Boots, with their marinade of crude oil and drilling ‘mud’ – and the effects of forty-degrees-in-the-shade heat upon my feet,’ he says. ‘Having surveyed an oil well, we would process the results on a Data General Nova 4X. As my company had set up the operation on a tight budget, we weren’t initially given a monitor, but had to do our keying on a line printer with an integral keyboard.’
The fun just never stops on oil rigs, does it?
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