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Pig Day In Ottawa

14 July 2008By Zhu 17 Comments

This is my entry for Graham’s monthly photography hunt. The theme for July is “food“.

$Ottawa\'s Ribfest$

Every year, Sparks Street in downtown Ottawa is smokin’ hot. For five days in June, about twenty teams from Canada and the United States compete for the top rank of best rib choice, best rib sauce, best chicken choice and best chicken sauce.

The flashy trailers are lined up from Elgin street to Kent street, in one of Ottawa’s busiest pedestrian street, in the heart of the business district. Line-ups are long but worth the wait.

All the vendors are part of a summer circuit of cities and they all pride themselves in selling traditional Southern BBQ: ribs, pulled pork sandwiches, chicken, beans and coleslaw — your usual vegetarian nightmare. Each trailer boasts numerous trophies on display out front, and man-size banners overhead proclaiming their meat superiority, as well as some country pride: the Texas lone star, the Canadian flag etc.

Damn, the pulled-pork sandwich was good.

17 Comments »

Seraphine said:

lol damn right it’s unfair!
if i was a piglet, i’d go on
strike and never grow up.
i think that’s the key,
to always look cute. groin groin.

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# 19 July 2008 at 7:47 pm

DianeCA said:

Pig Day! Damn I thought I knew a lot about Canada but this one I have never heard of hehehe!! I love pulled pork sandwiches too. I haven’t had one in such a lonnngggggggggg time!! Not a lot of pig pickin in Norway.

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# 16 July 2008 at 6:28 pm

Zhu (author) said:

@bluefish – Better than Montreal smoked meat in my opinion!

@Jemima – Of course I did!

@Linguist-in-Waiting – Silverneurotic already explained for me below… Pork isn’t an Ottawa specialty but I guess it’s a BBQ thing.

@SilverNeurotic – Thanks for explaining! Me neither but once in a while it’s cool.

@Graham – You so don’t like a piggie! I liked this challenge and can’t wait to see the other food pictures! Please, no English jelly though

@Aiglee – Yep!

@Froggywoogie – I rarely eat meat myself but it smelled so good…

@Seraphine – You’re right, it’s sometimes more fun to be here for the atmosphere.

@Annie – It was pretty good! Won’t eat that everyday but I liked it.

@johnada – I know, they like to put cute pigs and cow, it’s funny. Maybe so that the kids don’t freak out? But on the other side, it breaks my heart to eat a cute piggie, while I don’t care that much about a stupid pork. Am I animal-racist??

@expatraveler – Nah, I actually forgot about Bastille Day — I’m a terrible French!

@Ulquiorra – Same here, I rarely eat meat, not a vegetarian, just used to eat veggies more than meat. And when I eat meat, it’s usually chicken.

@Seraphine – Come to think of it, it is unfair!

# 16 July 2008 at 6:13 pm