Early Shedding Reports

One of the first reported encounters with the shedding of bacon was by a rural letter carrier in Washington Parish Louisiana.  George Boudreaux Williams was his name.  It was a cold February Monday with north wind and no blue sky showing.  At 7:00 a.m. George had his 1961 GMC truck loaded with the route 1 mail.  That days mail included 2 tires from Sears and Roebuck for one of his stops.  George was a tall boney fellow  about 6 feet 3 inches tall.  Each day as he started his route the store keepers would grin when they saw him sitting in the middle of the truck seat waving to them with one hand out each window while steering with his left knee.  Well to make a long story short George had a flat and  had to change it in the mud.  He only had a cup of coffee before starting the route and there hanging on a rattan vine were 4 beautiful slices of Leroy bacon!  George ate them and told half the Parish about the next day.  Few believed but George enjoyed.

     The bacon from Leroy is very uniform,  always delightfully the same.  Nine inches long and 3/16 of an inch thick.  It is as though it was sliced with a Globe Foods Bacon Slicing Machine set on 3.  It is always 70% lean and 30% fat.  It seems to have a hickory smoked maple taste, only better.  The frequency and the mechanism of the shedding is not known.  It is thought that 4 slices are shed every 24 hours but it timing between sheddings is unknown.  Even with all the unknowns the bacon is wonderfully appreciated each time it is encountered.

     Leroy is unlike any other feral hog.  No question about that.  He can travel great distances rapidly. In only 3 or so weeks he can go from North Carolina to Texas.   Leroy is far more intelligent than other known feral hogs.  Even more unusual is his ability to shed 4 pieces of bacon every day.  The bacon is safe and ready to eat.  The bacon spoils 24 hours after shedding.

The Leroy Story Begins

     Becoming a grandfather brought to my attention the need for this blog to be more entertaining.
Thus begins the story of Leroy the mutant bacon shedding feral hog.  The origin of Leroy is not known but some believe this most unique creature comes from South Mississippi. He was first discovered in Lamar county near Westphalia shortly after the October 22, 1964 nuclear test.