'Being Gordon Ramsay' featuring dead pig!

I imagine it's all faux shock and more aimed at trying to "educate" those who make different choices to OP.

Don't walk down picadilly in London OP, and definitely not China town.

You’ve hit the nail on the head really
just the wrong way round

Vegetarians in the restaurant wouldn't be inflicting their views on others would they

Walking through a restaurant carrying a full animal on a platter is though.

What's. The problem? I get fed up of vegetarians inflicting their views on others.

We had a suckling pig on a spit roast in the forest in Poland (when on holiday visiting my Polish relatives over there this summer) - granted it's not something you see here that often but still very much done in modern times lol

Watched it and keen to go, dh saw the pig and said that would make a great corporate lunch idea. I don’t understand your issue with it. We get all our meat from a farm and drive along their very long drive to get to the butchery past all the animals who we will eventually eat. The butcher will tell us when they have a really good pig coming in next week etc. Love knowing where our meat comes from.

I’ve just watched it , surely it was at the Asian restaurant and was just being carried through the kitchen? I saw no mention of a hog roast ? ?

Wouldn’t bother me at all.

I don’t think it’s actually Muslims complaining about this - I’m sure most are well aware that pork is routinely eaten by non-Muslims!

Asian cuisine is very pork orientated so no I don’t think it would be odd. It’s the same as someone having bacon or a pork chop just more jarring. It’s authentic and theatrical and for all I know a delicacy?

I wouldn’t order it personally but I wouldn’t leave a place over it being at another table. I was vegetarian for 8 years btw until I had to give up for health reasons.

To each their own, it just doesn’t sound like the place for you, and I get that! I would feel that way about octopus for example. Don’t know why, just gives me the heebie jeebies!

Also, I saw some wanky post on LinkedIn yesterday about someone who went to the Manchester one I think, granted there were a fair few drinks on the bill but it was £406 for 2 people! 😱

Gosh you sounds like a daily mail
reader with your country breaking down pandering to others, just because people have different views to you and are expressing these views on a dicussion forum.

At least it's a DEAD baby pig

Also for clarity. We live in a Christian country. This stuff happens and like someone else said plenty of people go to a hog roast. You won’t see it in a muslim country if they are that offended by it.

Don’t like it, don’t go, don’t expect everyone else to change because of a small minority who find it offensive. This is where the damn country is breaking apart. Pandering to others.

This sounds like a scene from a horror film: so gruesome.

Hahaha 😝
The suckling pig is cooked on a spit and then taken to a serving area whole and carved. It’s served with apple sauce, crackling and a bread roll.
We all sat at long tables. I think it was a Friday or weekend and we watched buses arrive full of locals from other villages who also ate the piglet. It was a very social occasion.
The SP was very tasty and tender, I’m not sure the locals would have been.

Are the plants everybody eats not dead when they are consumed? Or is a boiled broccoli head magically alive somehow?

At the end of the day it's not much more spectacle than other carvery, table or otherwise, rotisserie displays, peking duck in windows etc.
The only reason people have an issue is that it's what many would consider a cute animal.

I agree with you OP, I wouldn't like this either and it would ruin the enjoyment of my own meal.

I'm vegetarian and this would not bother me. Is it the fact that it's whole or that it's a baby that worries you? Suckling pig is quite a well known delicacy and is served in lots of restaurants in parts of Spain.

Don’t give up the day job

I know you're trying to be provocative, but it seems a little 'teen angst' to make up 'offensive' terminology as if you think it achieves something.

Yes, human meat eaters do eat animal corpses, which (for practicalities sake) we do not usually slaughter ourselves on the spot anymore, and that for nutritional value and hygiene, we usually cook.

Omnivore is the correct word for a human who eats meat, though, as they eat plant matter too. All carnivores eat dead animals, as while some might start eating them while they're still alive, at a certain point they're all chowing on a corpse. Carnivore just means 'flesh eater', which is accurate whether said flesh belongs to a live animal, or a dead one.

(As an aside, I thought necrovore sounded like a metal band name, and funnily enough, it was! ☠)

This completely! I do not understand how otherwise decent people cannot use their intellect to question Carnism.

And once again, the correct term for animal corpse munchers is necrovore.

Whole roast suckling pig is a classic dish for a large group of people. Do you feel the same about a whole roast turkey, or a whole poached salmon? It's just a hog roast on a smaller scale. I have no idea why you're so offended. Any diet-observant Jew or Muslim wouldn't eat in a random restaurant anyhow, as the kitchen would not conform to their kosher/halal rules.

It didn’t feel remotely cruel to us - we all knew what was going to happen from day 1 and learnt how to raise her and care for her to give her the best life possible. I honestly don’t remember anyone getting upset about it - she wasn’t raised as a pet - the purpose of her being there was that she was being raised for meat.

In my best Homer Simpson voice...."mmmm...suckling pig 🤤🤤"

Well, to be fair, lobsters can live for 10 - 40 years, so I would have thought, if you really care about animals you'd think that was far worse than killing a baby pig for food.
Most lobsters caught for food (from what I've just seen on Google) are aged between 5 and 7 years, surely it's worse to kill something older than it is to kill a baby pig that has been bred for that purpose?
I find it weird that a vegetarian as militant as you are about it would even go into a restaurant that serves meat. I'm surprised you'd even be married to a meat eater, to be honest!