On the Hoof: Thieves Succeed In Stealing 20 Boxes of Pig Feet

Thieves in Victorville, California appear to have seized the opportunity of a train making an unscheduled stop to steal 20 boxes from a train car. They later discovered that their daring crime had yielded 20 boxes of pigs’ feet worth $200.

I am equally surprised that 20 boxes of pig feet is only worth $200. I am not a pig feet connoisseur, but I was not aware that pig feet were so cheap. I suppose that it why pig bellies rather than pig feet became the market staple for traders.

Finding a fence for pig feet will not be easy. Perhaps pickled pig feet, but unpickled pig feet would appear a flat market. (I have never had a pickled pig foot, have you?). What is important is that if any of our regulars are approached in Victorville by a guy in a raincoat with pigs feet dangling inside, don’t buy. They are hot feet.

Source: LA Times

9 thoughts on “On the Hoof: Thieves Succeed In Stealing 20 Boxes of Pig Feet”

  1. In my 30s, I so this newspaper headline:
    “Unknown Thieves Steal Toilet From Police Station –
    Cops Have Nothing To Go On”

  2. JT:

    “I am not a pig feet connoisseur, but I was not aware that pig feet were so cheap.’

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    Your Chicagoness is showing. Here in Virginia we’ve been eating those economical quadrupedal delacacies for generations. Here’s a Virginia recipe from 1860:

    “Split the feet in two, dredge them with flour and fry them a nice brown; have some well seasoned gravy thickened with brown flour and butter; stew the feet in it a few minutes.”

  3. Trade in Pork Bellies Comes to an End, but the Lore Lives

    CHICAGO — This city’s market for the pork belly, a commodity nearly everyone seemed to have heard of but only a small, close-knit fraternity truly understood, is no more.

    When the Chicago Mercantile Exchange announced the other day that pork belly futures would no longer be traded, it was hardly a shock. Trades had shrunk to almost nothing. Volatility was too much. The frozen bellies, used to make bacon, were, in the view of some, losing relevance.

  4. Sopa de Pat (slow-simmered pig’s feet soup)……too big for your pocket….Lucky pig…..

  5. Großvater loved pickled pigs feet & he got me hooked on the stupid things. They are dang hard to find in American markets.

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