Mr. Giant Reacts Rituals - Bucovina Region, RO, Europe - ”Pig slaughter” and ”Pomana” Christmas 

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I remember a family of Romanians who wanted to keep the tradition in America being. I think they bought a live pig from a farmer and wanted to slaughter it in the garden behind the house. American neighbors hearing the screams and seeing a Romanian with a pot of blood called the police. The Romanian had collected the blood from the pig to make bloody sausages. The Romanians woke up at the door with a S.W.A.T team and they were all arrested. The consulate sent a team of its defense lawyers. When I visited a friend in Illinois, he told me that he knows a farmer and that you can buy live pigs and sacrifice them on his property. He showed me a video showing around 80 Romanian families slaughtering pigs on the farmer's property that day.

Great country and great people in Romania! ❤ Greetings from Serbia! Your channel is great, other perspective and view in this time. ❤

I have to tell you this all ppl are neighbors , they help eachother , is like a small beautiful place where neighbors help eachother, next day they go to another neighbor etc so on untill every one has this ritual done ❤

Funny story a romanian milionaire told the story about his kid schholed in the US he wrote a homework about Christmas habits slaughtering The pig in România and The parent was imediatly called to The principals office and told that his kid needs a psychiatrist because he got killer instincts about pigs. 😂

You know, the dialects of the same language can be so diverse, that those subtitles are helping some native speakers to understand them better. People from some villages have a very thick accent unlike those living in cities.

7:48 - the man is predicting how winter will be by looking at the pig's spleen.

From the pig casings we make sausages , after we clean those casings very very well and with boiled water & vinager we cleaned them untill is a very thin layer then you put the meat mix with lot' s of garlick, spices etc ❤

😅Pomana porcului frumos MA DE ROMÎNIA😂

Mr. Giant, honorary Romanian!

Thank you for showing this tradition Mr. Giant. Gave me nostalgia, a warm fuzzy feeling and left me with a dumb smile on my face.

I'm not very old but I remember we did this too in my childhood about 20 years ago, in a small town in Transylvania. It was a bit more "developed" let's say, we had portable gas burners for burning the pig, instead of wood, we had electric grinders, but the atmosphere was the same :) Meanwhile I moved to a big city and the tradition is lost here, but I think that in small towns and villages it's still done to this day. The people in the video have a strong accent, I think they are from the Moldova region of Romania.

Interesting story i've heard about some evangelists or whatever they're called, some Americans that came to Romania with their church and spent a few years here before going back. They started eating bread more regularly than they did back home because they found it so delicious. When they went back home and tried to eat bread as often as they did in Romania they developed a gluten allergy. In my experience Romanians have always been a bit careful with their food even before the whole 'bio' marketing tactic came about, which in my opinion should be the other way around, products with chemicals and non grass fed or non free range should come with a warning label not glorifying and over pricing the bio product which should just be the standard. You used to be able to find 'underground' shops, i say underground as they didn't really have a license to sell or anything like that, but they had relatives in the countryside and would sell veggies or even meat, sausages, smoked meats, farm eggs etc from their private houses in the middle of the city, just put up a sign 'farm fresh produce' and the whole neighborhood would be talking about it. You could even find fresh milk, if you got there by 6.30-7 in the morning it would still be warm from the cow.

I live in the same town where this video vas shot ❤😂

The translation on the video was a bit off... almost every time they were saying "slana" it was translated as bacon - but in the context they were talking about the fat. And "coaste" being translated as coast instead of ribs, was really funny. In Romanian we use the same word for both, so I can get how that error occurred. And there are other errors, really wrong in the context - like "pissed" instead of "grounded" - the words in Romanian are similar, but man, they really didn't care about context :) Loved everything else about it... reminded me of childhood, and the only time I took part in the pig slaughter.

It‘s also tradition in Serbia😂👍

Thank you for this video, it brings memories of my grandpa.

The people from the clip are from Sadova, Bucovina.

Im from that part off the country and i can tell you that,,go and see with your own eyes,,this time off the year it s fantastic and if is snowing you will remeber forever❤

Respect Mr.Giant

That is not like polenta that is like a cookie with corn made in home, polenta is salty , that is sweet and with sugar/ eggs/ flower/ corn etc

Nothing from the pig go to waiste. That " beșica" used us a ball for the kids because we didn' t find balls to play in comunism & they made that for kids to play us a football😂❤❤

Those sequences are from the area of Maramures but it is done all over Romania in the country side only...City people do not have this..

ASTA E ADEVARATUL RITUAL DIN ROMANIA!!!!!!!

Hello! I have experienced the pig slaughtering all my childhood. Now, my father-in-law keep the tradition. Almost every romanian has a parcell of land. Till the age of 30 I are only organic food. The taste is great. Now, I grew up sine veggies, I Pick up mushroomes, blueberries and I have my in orchard. The problem is that the seeds are different from the past. Our own seeds are replaced by europeans ones. The taste is different, is not so good.

I remember during the Communist period my parents where having a pig from Easter to Christmas and vice versa 90 kilos but we had meat during all Year.I was lucky because my mother was a chef in a industrial cantina and all the food west was going to the pigs.It was a ritual of scarifying a pig.And its truth we where using all the pig parts.

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I'm an Romanian (west part) native speaking, and I need translations to this...

On the " drum" you put ears, organs , again nothing go to waiste & on the stomach you put those , you clean the casing of the stomach & put those & boiled that casing stuffed with those ❤. But it' s really hard work. You work all day from the morning till evening❤

For mr giant sistrers osoianu and the wolwes

Kids under let say 12 don't help to is a bit much to handle but after a few years all help and the whole proces can take around 5 houers if not more.

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Well.. Mr big.. pig sloter is in fact a pagan custom and has nothing to do with the Christmas itself... it's been in teritory since dacian times.. it is indeed porc meat consumed winter for its reachness in calories

România este o țară superbă,cu obiceiuri frumoase.Românii au credință în Dumnezeu,și primitori de oaspeți.Este o țară sigură și primitoare.

Also we mealt the fat from the pig & we use that fat when we don' t have oil to fry or the fat from the pig you can use it to make cookies and even soap , my granny made also soap from fat of the pig ❤❤❤

In Serbia and all balkan region it pig slaughter done in colder time. I don't know why. I think it is because of the flies and the colder temperature is better for the meat?

Thank you again❤. Yes the pig ritual❤❤❤

Before the intestins are wash they stink so bad 😂. Bleah! 😅 but sausages are soooo good 😋.

Let ' s not forget America when they sacrifice the turkey for Thanks Givings❤❤❤. Thank you Adrian this is a beautiful & very real from our villages❤❤❤.

Its tradition not ritual.. 😂

TIHIS IT NOT PUR ROMANIEN!!!!