Puzzle Description:

Went to market

#1: Donna McFarland (Baby Jade) on Feb 14, 2021

The piggie is so cute can't wait to solve the rest!

Very cute. Thanks for the smile :)

Genius!

My wife inspired me to make this series after posting a facebook meme about things not ending well for the first little piggie

Moral of the story: If you are one of 5 little piggies, don't volunteer to go first.

Oddly, I have a Beatles song in my head, now :)

"Some Pig!"

Thanks, Brian for all the puzzles you make.

I prefer to think the first little piggie went to a market filled with yummy ripe ears of sweet corn. Thats my story and I'm sticking to it. I'm an incurable optimist.

A loaf of bread, a carton of milk, and a stick of butter... I remember this from a Porky Pig cartoon, but I've heard others know it differently?

Yonah, I remember that from an animated short on Sesame Street. It came up recently in conversation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNghp9tPXjo
There's also a Family Guy parody out there too :)

Wonderful! Made me laugh.

Oh, I never thought about the first piggie going "to the market". That interpretation ruins the whole nursery rhyme. I like your version much better Brian!

Oh wow, David, I remember watching that Sesame Street clip when it was new and I was about three.

I always thought the piggie going to market meant that the pig a shopper headed to buy things at the market. Eek!

Come to think of it, there are a lot of parts of that rhyme that I don't get.

1) This little piggie went to market. -- I hadn't thought *that* through until today.
2) This little piggie stayed home. -- So the farmer kept that pig on the farm?
3) This little piggie had roast beef. -- I don't know anything about pig farming, but it seems unlikely that anybody would normally feed a pig roast beef.
4) This little piggie had none. -- The pig had no roast beef? None of something else? Okay.
5) And *this* little piggie cried "wee wee wee wee" all the way home. -- Noooo idea.

Wikipedia shines some light:
In 1728, the first line of the rhyme appeared in a medley called "The Nurses Song". The first known full version was recorded in The Famous Tommy Thumb's Little Story-Book, published in London about 1760. In this book, the rhyme goes:

This pig went to market,
That pig stayed home;
This pig had roast meat,
That pig had none;
This pig went to the barn's door,
And cried week, week for more.


"Week, week" does sound like a squealing pig. And the third little piggy had "roast meat". Pigs are omnivores, after all. Just ask any forensics professional!

What great fun! and the history of the sing-song about the pig was illuminating.

Not to gross anyone out, but one of the mystery stories I read used pigs to "destroy the evidence."

I actually knew a family who had pygmy pigs - that lived in their house. The pigs were potty trained to go into what was basically a litter box.

Kristen: Interesting!

I read a lot and every now and then someone disposes of a body by feeding it to the pigs. But I don't recall them roasting it first.

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