Meaning of porkery | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A place that sells pork.
2. Synonym of piggery.

Examples

“Recently another disease, a most fatal one, has been found to arise from eating swine’s flesh, a disease that takes into the human body live animaculæ, called Trichinœ. There were so many cases of this horrid disease for the last year or two, that a very decided decrease in the sale of pork, at Cincinnati, the great porkery of our land, was felt.”

“I’m not after meat; when I want that I’ll go to a porkery. Sport’s what I’m after; when I shoot at anything that wears feathers it must be on the wing.”

“Drawn by prize money (a mere $7,500 total) and the chance to sell 3,000 pounds of ribs at premium prices, chefs motored here from such renowned porkeries as Slappy Sam’s Bodacious BBQ of Medina, Ohio; Razorback Cookers of Blytheville, Ark.; and the Sweet Meat Cooking Team of Euless, Texas.”

“Other popular porkeries around the city don’t even make [Danny] Meyer’s effort. At The Hog Pit (22 Ninth Ave. at 13th St.), Brother Jimmy’s Bait Shack (1644 Third Ave.) or SoHo’s Tennessee Mountain (143 Spring St.), the meat is plentiful, spicy, and liberally sauced, but is beside the point at these rowdy restaurants, where cold beer and hot waitresses are the major attractions.”

“I contacted Farmer John, the great porkery on the L.A. riverbanks, and asked for a deal on Dodger Dogs, their signature ten-inch frank; they agreed to sell them to us at wholesale—twenty-four cents each—and every other week we were at their loading dock, heaving frozen boxes, a thousand dogs at a time, into the back of Carmen’s van.”

“In the packing season of 1860–’61 upward of three million head of hogs were packed at the various porkeries of the United States, besides those packed by farmers at home, of which less than twenty thousand were packed at regular establishments south of the lines of our armies. […] Tennessee then became the main reliance for the future use of the army, which, together with the accessible portions of Kentucky, had been so ravaged by hog cholera and injured by short corn crops for three years preceding the year just closed, that the number slaughtered at the porkeries within her limits had deviated from two hundred thousand head to less than twenty thousand.”

“Each of our units maintains a small farm, primarily a porkery and a poultry farm.”

“The main house was built in the 1840's, possibly by a Scot named MacDonald who operated a distillery nearby, or by an Englishman, J. Montgomery Campbell, who restored the distillery which had been burnt down in 1844. […] In addition to producing large quantities of whiskey, Mr. Campbell operated a “porkery”, where he fattened 300 pigs for market on the coarse beer and wash which were bi-products^([sic]) of the distilling process.”

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