Dude my parents raise the pig for about 6 months to a year to prepare for my birthday. When i was 6, I woke up to it being slaughtered and I refused to eat it. From then on, we just bought it already roasted.
in cooking it u actually put a huge bamboo stick from its mouth till it sticks out from the other side (the butt) and cook it by the fire. search lechon.
@@catboisub well, I am from a rural area of Italy, I don’t know how other people do it but I know how we do it. We don’t use sedatives or anything like that but a special gun that fires a spike directly in the brain in order to not ruin the meat (we eat all parts of the pig). The death is instantaneous and it doesn’t feel anything. To be able to do that you need to immobilize it. Anyway, pigs are extremely intelligent and they know something bad is happening, so they will cry and try to free themselves until they are without forces. All of this to say that even if the scene does seem really cruel, actually it is not. Well, it is not really about being human, it is about not ruining the meat, but the results are the same.
Bella is not holding back. Considering she flew out mama rae and this lechon for a surprise. Well she did gift rae with a whole lot of swords for her collection. It would have been a lot crazier if bretman was there
lechon is like eaten almost at least 5 times a year in our family. we eat it at birthdays, weddings etc... and we have our own piggery as well! when i was a kid i felt really bad seeing them being klled n cooked but as i grew up i started participating in cooking them lmao.
Yeah i know what you mean. My elementary school was close to a piggery, so every morning before class we would hear pigs squealing in pain. Its traumatic but it needs to be done for a successful Fiesta Lmao.
hell we have a festival all about lechon in our town yearly lol. a parade with lechons in each puroks dressing the cooked lechon with some funny and cool costumes and is then judged who has the best lechon.
LETS GOOO They really went all out on this. What a swerve😂😂😂 In almost every occassion, even at a school event, they serve a WHOLE ASS pig and the skin is crispy af
Same experience with Rae. I was 13 when I saw 3 pigs and a cow get killed for the festival but it's tradition. My elders never let me forget to honor what we eat and be thankful for what we have. That's why we eat every part, we don't waste any of it. I was traumatized but I was still a meat lover 😂 it's important to know where your food comes from and how it's brought to your table. You can fully appreciate it and it actually taste better knowing that so many hands are involve in preparing and cooking what you eat.
I experienced the same thing as rae, when I was a kid I got woken up by the pig's squealing. My grandfather and my uncles were butchering the pig behind our house. Then when morning came we ate lechon. I wasn't really bothered by the squealing but from the orange light they used that made me think it was already afternoon when it was early morning.
jet lag? That happens to me with jet lag. Then I have to find north again to see where the sun is rising. I remember going to my dad's childhood home and they were making kanding. Walked into the backyard to find a goat head staring at me. The soup was alright but it was too sour for my liking and it was too f'ing hot for that shit at that moment.
I've always eat lechon when i was a kid and my grandparents and the boys are always the one who do the work when it comes to making lechon. I've always heard the pig squeal but I've never seen them getting the blood
LMFAO Classic Filipino hospitality dish! If that was real, it can LITERALLY feed a whole village! Edit: btw that "hear the pig crying" is such a traumatizing moment. Not only are some pigs bought from pig farmers to be cooked, some are actually grown from birth solely for the reason of being cooked in the far off future like a high school graduation/marriage/birthday, etc. Like, they're reserved for an even that's like 5 years or more into the future lol
5 years is kinda of a stretch as local Philippine Pigs grow quite big. Most lechon are like 6 to 7 months. I know this because my aunt's business is to race pigs for lechon.
part of being a Filipino is hearing at least one pig die, or hearing how it died. saw my cousin walk out with a bucket of blood when I was 5 and was never the same since skin is crispy tho
its honestly so cool seeing my culture being shared front and center in front of thousands of people. keeps me motivated to keep working hard so i can do the same thing in the future
Dinuguan and lechon are my two favorite Filipino dishes. Most of my Filipino friends don't like the dinuguan but their parents/grandparents do so thankfully its usually at the get togethers
I had a same story as rae but instead of a pig it was a goat for my uncle's birthday. I was little traumatized but the after result was somewhat pretty good and wholesome. They made the goat drink white vinegar to get it drunk (idk if it worked tho) then they kill it. Pretty much same as what rae described, a lot of squealing. Then they drain the blood and shave the goat then cut it up into portions for different dishes. Nothing gets wasted and everyone of our relatives and my uncle's "kumpares" all get a little bit to take home and share with their own families.
I had the same moment. When I came back to visit the Philippines, our parents there wanted to celebrate by eating Lechon, and I remember all my uncles with my dad carrying on a stick this massive pig. I was prolly 8 yo haha
We were under Spanish rule for 333 years but governed through Mexico. So much is shared ranging from catholicism being dominant throughout the country, food to last names and even some loan words. Edit: the country was a province of Mexico in Spanish colonial times.
It is because our ancestors were raped and enslaved by Hispanic people from Spain and Mexico and forced us to cook their cuisine in our way. I remember seeing Spaniards hate our way of cooking paella which was very infuriating considering that the only reason we cook it that way is because their ancestors forced us to cook Hispanic food using our ingredients
I had a similar experience at my grandparents in Croatia. They own a farm with sheep, goats etc. and one of the baby sheep broke it’s leg. I spent some time with it and pet it etc. later I noticed my grandpa and two other men killing one of the little sheep for baby lamb for that nights dinner but didn’t think much of it until after dinner when they told me I just ate the one who broke its leg. I literally bawled my eyes out I felt like a monster.
In my family (bothe my mom & dad side) we only get letchon if we had the right pig from the family's farm. And kids will be watching on the side while they prepare everything, I mean everything from when they killed it & remove the organs to how they're stuffed and cooked. Yeah. That was a great childhood.
Yeah same thing happened to except it was in Mexico and it was either a sheep or a pig, they ended up butchering them and all the kids refused to eat the animals meat and they never did it again lol
Yea I think we can be carnivores in the most respectful way possible, and for me its hard to eat pig because I know how smart they are. I don’t judge anyone who does though and I do partake sometimes but it freaks me out
Here's a story for yall. So when I was like 7-8, we were living in my cousins house. At the time, me and my cousin were really close and we still are but anyways, we were really bored so she asked her dad, (my uncle) if we can borrow his phone and look through the camera roll, he said yes because he didn't think we would do any funny business. As we were looking for a few minutes, my cousin than was saying how she had a surprise for me....GUESS WHAT IT WAS?? It was a video of my uncle and some other people....KILLING A BABY PIG. I was about to cry because as I said, I was 7 or 8 at the time but still, it would have been traumatizing for any age that saw a video of a baby pig getting slaughtered. When Rae described about the pig getting killed, that was true. I still have a vivid memory of that day-
every fiesta in the morning my uncle and dad were preparing a lechon and i heard how the pig was screaming I never watch them doing it cause i am literally crying and covering my ears 😭 coz it feels like I am hearing someone getting killed and it feels horrible deeply horrible. But later on I am eating the lechon as if i didnt cry how it got killed
I Will Never forget on how they killed a poor dog crying for help when he's getting hit by a Wooden Plank repeatlly until it dies and cook him, back then in Philippines eating dog was legal too but not alot of people do that
i remember when me and my cousin watch a pig getting killed, we hear the pig crying and my cousin got traumatized. the pig was forced to drink some kind of liquid (they said it's vinegar idk, to make the pig sleepy/dizzy) and slit the pig's throat. my cousin go home traumatized and until now she never eat pig
Rae was like straight up traumatized during her childhood days watching the pig died 😄 yeah that's how Filipino do if we have festival or have a birthday party
The "having PTSD from the pig squealing because it's about to be slaughtered" bit is understandable lol I experienced that multiple times but I got used to it, especially since my family goes back to the province and my cousins have goats to kill for some stew. Though, the first time I saw it, it looked like an ISIS video or something
Me and my sister have heard the pig squele and we saw it infront of our eyes a couple meters away i wasn't terrified but my lil cousin bald when she heard it squel
Is it just color grading or the camera or something? But as a filipino myself i think the letchon should be more red as it is like the apple in its mouth but idk still looks good
