I can see why cartoon self-basting pigs would disturb a vegan, but I find all edible mascots disturbing – talking boxes of popcorn, dancing banana women, candies with distinct personalities – and I’m not even a vegetarian.
If this were a hard-boiled detective novel, the opening paragraph would be: "She was built like a brick house, unlike her two unfortunate sisters (who were built like straw and twig houses respectively). Their pictures were on posters all over town; they’d have been on milk cartons, if this town was anything like towns used to be…but there’s things nice people don’t talk about in this town, and milk is one of them. "
I can see why cartoon self-basting pigs would disturb a vegan, but I find all edible mascots disturbing – talking boxes of popcorn, dancing banana women, candies with distinct personalities – and I’m not even a vegetarian.