Have you ever been to a good old fashioned pig pickin'?

not yet - but it sounds like fun.

You bet! I have a friend who does this every year, invites a bunch of friends from all over, they set up some games for the kids to play in the yard, put out some chairs for the old folks, it's a great time! She actually has a guy come over and roast the pig for her, which is smart because that way she can spend her time with the guests instead of worrying about how the roast is going. Good times, my mouth is watering just thinking about it!

Well, being from NC and still here, we do pig-pickins every Easter and sometimes more during the year. Aside from pig, there's always potato salad, coleslaw, pasta salad, baked beans, deviled eggs, bread, a couple different sauces, sweet tea, Pepsi, and lots of awesome desserts including Pig-pickin cake, which is a yellow cake with coconut and pineapple in the icing, banana pudding, etc. My husband is having a cooker built to pull behind the truck. It's the culture down here!

I just love a pig roast! They are fantastic. The last time I went to one they had a huge pig that they had roasted all day. They just served it with buns, some sauces, and a nice potato salad. The meat was tender, juicy, flavourful - just divine.

And yes, food memories are very powerfull. They tend to combine smells, sights, great tastes, and often special people and events. I love holiday meals like Christmas, Easter, New Years Day, and Thanksgiving. A while back my wife cooked a pork roast and it was like cutting into butter.

Oh yes. I live in Louisiana and we had pig roasts or "couchon de les" as the cajuns call their version of the smoked pig. We also had and still have awesome crawfish boils, with small red potatos, corn, cabbage, onions, garlic, and mushrooms boiled right in with the crawfish.

The pig roasts would have sides such as:

baked beans

potato salad

garlic bread

homemade baked macaroni and cheese

all the basic bbq fixins

deserts such as:

red velvet cake

banana pudding with the whipped cream on top

sliced watermelon

apple or peach pie

strawberry pie

Oh and can't forget the homemade sweet iced tea!

I have so many memories of these gatherings. It's something I'd love to pass on to my child/children.

These weren't just meals, they were events!

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That does sound like fun. Unfortunately, I didn't grow up around my family to do that stuff, but I have plans to now that I have a child. I have small bbq's all the time. Give it a few years, and I bet I could have enough family to do that. TY for the ideas!

where I come from they call it a pig roast and everyone brings a great side dish and dessert.

we sit and eat and talk for hours we have a lot of fun.

yes! my family is from the philippines and every special occasion we would have pig roasts with tables full of food.

but the only gross part are my memories of seeing the pigs get slaughtered. eww.

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