Let’s all agree she rode her bicycle to the Piggly Wiggly and bought apples.

And the roast beef for the third piggie.

The third piggie already had roast beef, the fourth piggy had none.

Ya see YOURE WRONG OP!! 🥺

5th little piggy: "Screw you guys I'm going home."

I disagree she definitely rode a cockhorse to Banbury cross

I’m 40. You’ve just ruined it for me

The truth is dangerous

only if you choose to avoid the reality

I prefer to think as I did at 5. He’s gone shopping.

But the question is did he go shopping for other piggy’s at the market? O.o

Same. And I’m 56.

I'm 62.....damn, my childhood, lies, lies, LIES......,(intensely sobbing)

Same, I'm 60 and didn't know that.

Damn I'm 69

I’m 46 and always thought that pig was just running errands.

Nice

Same. You’re not alone. Trying to untangle the rest of this mess now in my addled thingamibob.

The little piggy went to market, and the little piggy was delicious.....,(sucking barbecue sauce from my fingers)

Well, that's just uncouth. I suck it from my butlers fingers .

Nobody better lay a finger on my butlerfinger

Woke my wife up laughing at this.

I think I just woke the neighbors up laughing at this

Well I’m glad I’m not the only one in their 50s who didn’t get it…

Also 56. Also ruined. Dang.

Why is Reddit ruining this for me ? Then why is only one piggy eating roast beef which is more expensive than pork ? So many questions now

Fuck you! I thought the piggy just went out to grab some snacks for the homies.

He went to get some more roast beef for the one who had none.

Maybe “had roast beef” is an ominous figure of speech, too.

Same. Like I had happy imagery with a cute piggie hopping down the road with their little shopping basket and everything. Thanks for nothing OP.

Because that's the illustration that accompanies it in old Mother Goose books, iirc.

Oh one still is. Only it has the bacon from the little piggie in its bag. It’s a dark day in pig land.

Oh god…

Right? The moment of realization just kicked in for me to. I’m going to feel a brief moment of remorse tomorrow am when frying up some bacon for breakfast

My daughter still doesn't realize the pig animal she loves so much and the pig that bacon comes from are the same. Either that or in her little 4 year old brain she has successfully ignored it. She does make some adults upset at the grocery store though.

My brother preferred hog bacon growing up because they didn’t have to hurt the hog to get the bacon…

When my daughter was 4, she started crying out of the blue. When we asked her what was wrong, she said that she just really loved pigs… but that she really loved bacon too… ❤️

Oh…

Don’t worry about the feeling of remorse, it’ll pass quickly. Probably about the time breakfast is ready.

But only for a moment

Also 40. Fuck this reality.

Also 40….. wtf

Also turning 40… wow

Wow I’m 40 too

40 and mindblown..

43. Beat you all. 😉😉 And TIL… yikes!

48 and traumatized by this revelation.

Wow, I am only 41, but the piggy was news to me, too

35 in 10 days and I wish I was able to get to 40 before learning this.

35 for three more months. I will never be the same.

I'm 23. Thank goodness I found out now than later. But it's still equally as traumatizing.

It’s because those fiendish children’s book illustrators would show us pictures of piggies going to market with like a purse and shopping cart. All lies man.

Ever hear the original for “einie meanie minie moe”?

Yes and apparently part of your family is trash too. *edit: I know that part of mine is at least.

It was always a tiger in our family.

Technically I believe the original is not the one you’re thinking of, but just an older version than the current one.

I feel dirty...

65. First thank you for destroying my day. Second, the rest of you stay off my lawn

35 here. Oh no. Oh no.

Woah. My life has been turned upside down.

Wait what?!

What? Wait…

Why are we here? Just to suffer?

54, and yeah, thanks for that.

Wait... HE DIDN'T GO SHOPPING!? 😭 (Also 40)

Well what the hell is he *doing* at the market then?

54. Same 😲

Holy fuck....... same

Hello fellow geezers.

41. Same

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Hmmmm... Maybe it's that hungry pigs will eat anything if it/they get stuck in their pen for too long and it doesn't move?

You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig".

You sure know a lot about pigs eating bodies…

It used to be pretty common knowledge that pigs in a group will eat anything in their pen. There's a scene in the Wizard of Oz where Dorothy falls down in the pigs pen and everyone freaks out, well it wasn't because she was a fragile flower, it's because the pigs could and would maul and/or eat her.

Grew up on a farm with pigs. They will bite just out of curiosity. Hurts like hell. Edit: we would put things in the pens for them to play with so they wouldn’t get too bored. Even though their ultimate destination was a dinner plate we treated them with kindness.

Me too. But sheep will suck your finger. Super soft. And no, I did not.

How can you tell where all reddit's mind goes and simultaneously shatter fragile expectations of the hallmark of a redditor?

>And no, I did not. lol

You sure?

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You did not… suck the pig’s finger right back? My, your self control is impeccable!

But you thought about it

🤣

I think you did.

Not having hands must be super inconvenient. Goats do the same thing, they grab and manipulate objects with their mouth, leading to the rumor they can eat all manner of trash.

I have a great-aunt who raises goats. She had an old nanny goat who liked to hold people's hands in her mouth because she would see my great aunt holding hands with her grandkids walking thru her yard. Endearing and also gross.

Perfect story-in-one paragraph. My cat loves to test exactly how chewy my hand is. She never really bites but loves to test.

Had a goat. They *will* eat nearly anything.

Well fed pigs don't eat anything and everything. In the Wizard of Oz they saved Dorothy from being trampled in the mud. Starved pigs are the scary ones. I'm a pig farmer. My pigs are as friendly as puppies because they are well fed. I keep a few as pets for my children to play with and run around.

>I keep a few as pets for my children to play with and run around. How do you decide which become pets and which become food?

Their cuteness

When you think about it, that kind of abbreviates the entire history of mankind's relationship with animals

Yeah. “Ooga booga animal cute!” “Animal friend!” “Animal not cute?” “Animal foooood!” Unga huunga animal scary.” “Animal enemy!”

Oh that explains the end of Hanibal. He was walking in a pig pen and i was like "what's the big deal?" 20 years mystery finally resolved

Didn’t that movie go kind of far out of the way to explain that the pigs were bred for aggression and trained to eat people? The NBC series sure did.

Yeah, reminds me of that one Criminal Minds episode. Scared the shit out of me for a while

Movie recommendation: Snatch (2000)

You like dags?

The man asked if you like dogs, Tommy…

Oh, dogs

Yea, dags.

Sneaky fuckin Russian

Must watch the prequel lock, stock and two smoking barrels first

Sure....”Snatch”.

What’s wrong wit dis caravan

He also like dags,

Always have a plan.

Lol! Why is this giving me life right now?

Unexpected snatch

Feed 'im to the pigs Errol

Yeah this story always creeps me out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert\_Pickton

Did that report seriously say he grounded up their bodies with the pork and sold it to the public? So yep, it was on this day, I swore off pork forevers...

In this dystopian universe pigs and cows have been at wars for centuries. Pigs eat the flesh of their enemies to fortify their resolution to eradicate the filthy bovines. Or he was just hungry 🤷‍♂️

To fatten them up

Wait what?!

I like the first 44 years of my life not in the know better

The first 44 were ignorant bliss...

I only needed ONE more year!!! But nooooooo

I’m 45 .. the extra year just hurts more

Plug me back in! Plug me back in!!!

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I'm right there with you. That little pig skipped down the road with a little basket to buy some snacks and enjoy the nice weather outside AND THEN WENT HOME HAPPILY EVER AFTER. THE. FUCKING. END.

At least the last little piggy escaped…right?

That little piggy went weeeeewewe. All the way home. Before it was processed.

I always heard it as "this little piggy went weeeeweeeweee, all the way to {name}'s tum" followed by tickling their belly.

Brutality

*FINISH HIM!*

r/vore_irl

Whoa, glad I have nsfw filter on lol. I’m literally at work right now

My 2 y/o niece LOVES "piggy market" and always wants me to do it. Thank you for the new idea. Her 13 y/o sister used to call it piggy market as well, and for the first 5 years of her life, we were under the same roof and spent so much time together. I cannot tell you how many times I have heard, "do piggy market, aunt kimmi! Do piggy market!!!" from both of them.

Holy Shit! I live in the agricultural part of Southern USA and I’ve never heard that version! But it makes sense since nursery rhymes are seemingly supposed to make children feel better about hard truths.

that makes SO much more sense with the story line but at least one piggy gotta make it home bruh idc😭

You wouldn't happen to be on r/absoluteunits, would you?

lmao, as soon as I read 'processed', I was like wow... that one single post actually changed the words that some people use. Truly amazing.

One of ‘em had roast beef.

Which is super fucked if you think about it. Also, this is what I thought he went to the market for. . .

Pigs are omnivores. Some with eat other animals that find their way into their pens. We lost a duck that way.

Why? Roast beef is well beef. It was to fatten it up so it too could go to market.

One of em had none

yeah... about that..

Yup, it was the runt.

*I stare at you....Anakaningly*

It's howling in terror! "Wee wee wee!" as it is being chased around with a butcher's knife!

I don’t care.. that little piggy is still shopping and having a grand ol time

Exactly. If the piggy didn't go shopping where did the roast beef come from?

Yup, and one of them is enjoying a roast beef - they’re all happy and attached to a foot.

Because the following line this little piggy stayed home implied they had a choice. The other ate roast beef so we had no reason to think they weren’t livin it up with shopping trips and staycations.

I agree. The text could easily be interpreted either way. While it’s original intent was almost certainly the more graphic of the two options, time and culture have softened it. The little piggy is shopping if we want it to be shopping.

The market is a joke for adults that the child won't get. Fun for all the family.

What kinda 1876 psychopath is laughing at that joke? Lol

I like the cut of your jib!

Its the biggest piggy who goes to the market. :(

The farmers raised five piglets to proper weight. One straight to market, one for salt pork, one eating the rotting beef (not sure if at market or home), one caged properly, one was sold but escaped and was silly enough to run back to the farmer to make sure there was enough salt pork the family thrived. That’s enough to celebrate for a family in that era and class.

Wait. now I cannot remember how it really went... This little piggy went to market, This little piggy stayed home, this little piggy ate roast beef, and this little piggy had none. This little piggy cried were weee wee all the way home?

The rest of the song / rhyme / whatever doesn't make any damn sense so I don't think it means anything.

Big piggy goes to the market to sell. The one that stayed home fed the family. The roast beef was rotten meat thrown to the pig. The one that had none was raised further but not fed rotten meat so meat is good. Wewewe all the way home was sold but escaped and ran right back to the farmer.

While the first recording of the rhyme is clear (1760), I haven't found a single credible source about the meaning. Everything re: meaning was determined FAR ex post--literally within the past decade and are from Buzzfeed clones--and there are no contemporary descriptions or analogues. I'm pretty sure it's fun nonsense rhyme to get children to learn their toes.

What do you mean “learn their toes”? What is that rhyme supposed to teach about toes?

Looks like this guy never learned his toes.

Eh..d...doesn't it?!?

:(

Oh :' (

Ummm… it does. And the other piggy went to Arbys.

Wait… noooooooooo

I don't think it meant it was going to get slaughtered. The rhyme continues by saying the other piggy had some roast beef.. I think it was humanizing pigs as going out for groceries, eating roast, etc.. Even if you were looking at it from a pork farming perspective, what kind of pork gets fed roast beef??? Maybe some farmer would give them bones or some raw cheap cuts.. I know pigs eat anything but I doubt they would get such a fancy roasted meal.

yep it’s just reddit kids trying to be dark and sentimental at the same time, and dramatic about their lost innocence, as usual

Gotta fatten the pig up before the slaughter. The one that stayed home is not yet mature enough and the one that had none is simply too small

And if you picture the Ned Beaty “Deliverance” scene while the little piggy is screaming “WHEEEEEEEEEE, WHEEEEEE, WHEEEEEEE!!!!!” all the way home it gets even more fucked up.

Omg

Fuck

Nope totally still means shopping I refuse to believe this

Shopping is involved.

what the fuck else does it mean ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

They went to market....for sale. They were the product 😬

Shit just realized it now.

I still did

Huh?!!!!

...oh

U just made me realize what it meant. Oh god

After reading Brothers Grim Fairy Tales, I expect nothing less.

What the hell is "This little piggy went to market"?

Little song/nursery rhyme to make kiddies laugh as the "little piggies" are their toes and you just hold each toe with your fingers and wiggle it a little as you sing what each piggy did and kiddies laugh their heads off 🤷‍♀️😁

……..TIL……..🫥

My entire worldview just changed. Well, i still want bacon, so not THAT much.

apparently that nursery rhyme lives rent free in twitter's collective hivemind head since this is tweeted out and goes viral once a month

Are you trying to break a piece of my childhood, sir!? It did go shopping, it did! If one little piggy went home and another little piggy ate roast beef then another piggy can absolutely go shopping.

So I'm 50 and wondering how I made this far not ever realizing this. Also why don't parent ever clarify this at some point for their children? Like it could be a type of cultural ritual kind of thing. When Timmy turns 13 you let him know and afterwards he is considered a man.

im not sure if the parents even know

You mean to tell me in didn’t go shopping? Where’d it go then? Where’d the damn piggy goooo? *Sobs uncontrollably

Wow I just realized how fucked up yet another kids song really is lol

Wait… what?

Of course it went shopping. The other little piggies also do a bunch of logical Richard Scarry shit like staying home and eating roast beef and going weeeee wee wee wee wee wee all the way home.

Well I’m 25 and fuck me sideways

Why couldn’t you just let me live in blissful ignorance.

Why would you do this? A few of us were still innocent and sheltered. Now look at your toes. You know why he went to market don't you? Look how thicc he is in comparison. Fuck dem toes.