the other white meat
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.56 in modern English
31
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "If you think you have to serve fish or fowl to get the light, wholesome nutrition and easy convenience that today's lifestyles demand, take a fresh look at pork — the other white meat."
- "You can't go wrong with pork, it's the other white meat you know.”"
- "Most of the lard available at the grocery store is a by-product of the “other white meat,” lean pig, bred to meet demand when pork took the fall."
- "Whenever you come across a heritage breed pig, do yourself a favor and find a way to have a taste. It'll prove why pork is most thankfully not the other white meat."
- "A normal human corpse is considered to have three servings of "the other white meat.""
- "Looking down I saw they were covered in blood, not sweet honey barbecue sauce and that chicken wing I was gnawing on was the other white meat."
Etymology
From a slogan used by the National Pork Board to promote the sale of pork in the United States in the 1980s. Although some cuts are lighter, pork is typically classified as red meat. The horror sense emerged from the use of long pork as a euphemism for human meat (this coinage being based on its reputedly pork-like taste).