{"id":7031472,"date":"2026-08-07T06:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T06:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/anthropology\/pigs-feet-and-southern-roots-foodanthropology\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T06:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T06:11:14","slug":"pigs-feet-and-southern-roots-foodanthropology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7031472","title":{"rendered":"Pig\u2019s Feet and Southern Roots \u2013 FoodAnthropology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/foodanthro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"468\" height=\"279\" data-attachment-id=\"18224\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/foodanthro.com\/2026\/06\/08\/pigs-feet-and-southern-roots\/image-60\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/foodanthro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image.png?fit=468%2C279&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"468,279\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/foodanthro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image.png?fit=468%2C279&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/foodanthro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image.png?resize=468%2C279&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18224\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.6819407008086253;width:420px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A digital drawing of a pig, with its head, hooves, and tail colored red, and its body patterned with green dollars, by the author.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>A note from Mecca Howe, PhD: This blog article was written for an undergraduate class assignment for my Food, Culture, and Nutrition class (Spring 2026) at UNC Charlotte. The course explores food and nutritional anthropology through a biocultural lens to understand why we eat what we eat and how food makes us human. For their final project, students were asked to write a blog article on a topic from the course that resonated with them. The assignment encouraged them to combine lived experiences and self-reflection with evidence-based research to tell a compelling story, ultimately building skills in writing for public audiences. I hope you enjoy this piece as much as I did!<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Harmony Bynum<br \/>UNC Charlotte<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Pig\u2019s Feet in the Afternoon, Chitlins with Dinner\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a toddler, my great-grandmother would hand-feed me just about anything on her plate; to this day, she\u2019ll tell anyone how much I would eat as a baby, how I would always make a specific pointing motion to my mouth whenever I saw a relative eating (something she does with every retelling of the story).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was a particular day I had waddled up to my great-grandfather, who was most likely watching a gunslinger show as he ate his chitlins over rice with greens and cornbread\u2026 I, of course, made my little motion and, without a moment\u2019s thought, my grandfather fed me to my heart\u2019s content. This would all be disrupted by my grandmother, who rushed in with a panic. She thought what he was feeding me would kill me and that she would need to call an ambulance. If you assumed it was the chitterlings she was afraid of me eating, you\u2019re dead wrong; <em>it was the hot sauce on them<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In their company, not one part of the animal was seen as unseemly or invaluable. Sure, we didn\u2019t eat the eyeballs of our fish catches, but they didn\u2019t scoff at chicken feet and frog legs being sold in stores. I grew to eventually dislike chitlins; my disdain for them resided in their smell while cooking. I didn\u2019t learn what they truly were until the age of 16. However, I still <em>loved <\/em>pickled pigs\u2019 feet just as much as I loved anything pickled: pickled sausages, pickled eggs, and of course, pickles! I\u2019d wait on the curb on hot summer days with my great-grandmother and sisters for a routine red pickup truck that would go through our neighborhood every summer at noon. In the back, the driver would sell handmade snowcones and \u2018freezie-pops,\u2019 but unlike my sisters, all I wanted was a giant pickle and a pig\u2019s foot just like my grandmother.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I didn\u2019t feel the true stigma around these foods until I had heard the comments of other people, be it family or not. I had to be alone or in the company of people who didn\u2019t sneer if I wanted to enjoy pig\u2019s feet. These foods were \u2018backwater trash\u2019 to my relatives who did not grow up eating off the plates of my great-grandmother and great-grandfather.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A Brief History\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The commonly believed weekly ration of enslaved people, being \u2018a peck of cornmeal (8 dry quarts), 3.5 pounds of meat, and some molasses\u2019, neglects the variation seen in the real diets of enslaved people. Over time and across different spaces (states and plantations), the amount of meat and type of meat given to enslaved people in the United States varied greatly, not unlike its documentation. The majority of accounts regarding meat quantities for enslaved people were not large; some listed the skin of pork, small amounts of meat, or a few fish. The personal accounts of enslaved people like William Grimes support this experience. \u201cSometimes we had a little meat, or fish, but not often.\u201d\u00b9\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There were several moving elements surrounding the access to pigs as a food source for enslaved people, for example, a plantation owner named James Goodloe remarked that \u201ca slave who owned chickens or pigs would not run away.\u201d\u00b2 The structure of control over an<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">enslaved person\u2019s life extended to not just the literal state of enslavement but also their access to nutrient-dense food, which was meant to tether them to their enslavers. Meat was both a prison and a luxury to some extent in the South. For example, Cincinnati by the 1810s was the center of pork production. Before pork was sent to other states, it was graded based on its quality. The highest cuts were sent to the Northeast, less desirable parts to the South, and finally, \u201cbulk pork\u201d (heads and feet of hogs) was often sent to markets in New Orleans, where enslavers would purchase the meat.\u00b3 However, pigs\u2019 feet, along with other now \u2018undesirable\u2019 parts, were consumed by both poor white and black people, both in the south and nationwide.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sentiment of pigs\u2019 feet (also known as trotters, pettitoes, and crubeens) and chittlins\/chitterlings (the small intestines of pigs or other animals, which are usually boiled or fried) as unclean, for the poor, and generally disgusting, did not appear out of thin air. These portions of animals were not seen as ideal, due to the status of poverty being tied to them. The increased availability of other \u2018better\u2019 parts of animals left poorer people as the main consumers of offal, including feet, tails, ears, offal\/organs, or neck bones. These people were often also enslaved or formerly enslaved people.\u2074\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It took an extreme amount of effort to adapt what foods they <em>were <\/em>able to eat into not just edible meals but culturally infused, delicious ones. This practice of adaptation during not just the times of enslavement but following eras encompasses Soul Food as we know it today.\u2075 The stigma surrounding foods under the Soul Food umbrella can be partially attributed to the media that depicted black people and outsider narratives about our food and culture. The division of consumption came from who was prospering economically and who was not; \u2018undesirable\u2019 cuts of meat remained with those who couldn\u2019t afford \u2018better\u2019.\u2075 To this day, the consumption of pigs\u2019 feet and their intestines is not limited to Black Americans or White Americans; it appears in many cultures, American and not!\u2076 Ironically, offal, including sweetbreads (which are <em>not <\/em>sweet or bread, but typically the pancreas or thymus of a lamb or calf), can be found in fine dining restaurants today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>In Defence of Pig\u2019s Feet and Chittlins\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trotters\/Pigs\u2019 Feet are great sources of collagen, which is found in the thick skin and connective tissue of the hooves.\u2077 Collagen contributes greatly to our body\u2019s protein, in our skin, bones, tendons, ligaments, muscles, and so on. Collagen replaces dead skin cells and adds a protective layer for our organs.\u2078 While one could go out of their way to pay a higher price for a collagen treatment or supplements, they could also try to add an occasional pickled pigs\u2019 foot to their diet, or other forms of consuming pigs feet which exists in <em>many <\/em>cultures and fashions such as the Polish Jellied Pigs\u2019 Feet (also known as \u2018cold legs\u2019)\u2079, Paksiw na Pata a fillipino classic\u00b9\u2070, and many more. There is a whole world of ways to cook trotters, which very well might exist in your culture as well!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Organs\/Offal contain many beneficial components for nutrition, depending on which part is consumed, such as higher levels of iron, protein, vitamins (like B, A, E, and D), minerals (such as zinc, selenium, and magnesium), and more! Organs of animals, despite the stigma surrounding them, are generally safe to eat; the consumption of organs like pigs\u2019 feet is best in moderation and in context, like any other part of our diets.\u00b9\u00b9\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A Reflection\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These days, I don\u2019t eat pork as often as I used to for the sake of warding off headaches (it may be caused by a sensitivity or tyramines and histamines, which commonly affect blood vessels), but on the off chance that I do, I don\u2019t stray from a pickled \u2018trotter\u2019, especially on my summer trips to South Carolina. I find that there is something so fulfilling about consuming a part of an animal that would otherwise be wasted. I see it as a small respect for their life, in the same way one might clear their plate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through this writing journey, I have found a new love and appreciation for not just the animals it takes to make these foods I choose to eat, but also the innovation it took to make these foods delicious classics for so many people, and important to me and my culture. While I still have an aversion to chitlins because of their preparation and cooking smells alone, I recommend that anyone who is feeling adventurous visit their nearest Piggly Wiggly, Butcher\u2019s Shop, or any other store that carries cuts of an animal they\u2019ve been put off by or scared to try!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s all, folks!<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. Matthew C. Greer, <em>More Complicated Than Meal, Meat, and Molasses: Historicizing Enslaved Rations in the Southern United States <\/em>(Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage 14, 2025), 50\u201369.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. Kathleen Hillar, <em>Slave Consumption in the Old South: A Double-Edged Sword <\/em>(Organization of American Historians, 2017).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3. Jerome Dotson, <em>\u201cThe Republic of Porkdom\u201d: Pork Consumption, Kentucky, and the Cotton South <\/em>(Journal of Arizona History, Volume 64, Number 3, 2023), 359-376. 4. Edward C. Payne, <em>An Offal Way to Signal Status: Food and Cultural Capital <\/em>(University of Idaho, 2025)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5. Stephanie L. Tyson, <em>Soul Food Journey <\/em>(John F. Blaire Publisher, 2015), Introduction. 6. Crystal A. Johnson, <em>The Worldwide Consumption of Chitterlings <\/em>(Multi-Cultural Cooking Network, 2011).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">7. WebMD Review Board, Christine Mikstas, <em>Are There Health Benefits to Eating Trotters? <\/em>(WebMD, 2024).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">8. Cleveland Clinic Review Board, <em>Collagen <\/em>(Cleveland Clinic, 2022) 9. Judi Strauss, <em>Jellied Pig\u2019s Feet <\/em>(Charmed Kitchen, 2022).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">10. Vanjo Merano, <em>Paksiw Na Pata Recipe <\/em>(Panlasang Pinoy, 2024).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">11. Julia Zumpano, The Pros and Cons of Eating Organ Meat (Cleveland Clinic, 2022).<\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A digital drawing of a pig, with its head, hooves, and tail colored red, and its body patterned with green dollars, by the author. 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