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   "pig picking",
   "pig pickin",
   "pig pull",
   "rolling a pig",
   "hog roast"
  ],
  "said": "Always with the g dropped, as in the Wikipedia article's own title."
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  "root": "pig + pickin' (picking): the guests pick the meat off the cooked hog with their hands, and the gathering takes its name from the act",
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  "note": "Pig pull and hog roast name the same event elsewhere; pig roast is the wider term, used of the Cuban, Filipino and Hawaiian roasts, which are other traditions. Kingstree, South Carolina, calls its fall cook-off the Pig Pickin' Festival.",
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  "when": "any month; homecomings, tailgates, weddings, rallies",
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  "what": "A party at which a whole hog is cooked for the crowd and the crowd eats it off the pig — picked by hand from the split carcass, or chopped on a block beside it. A barrow, a castrated male, or a gilt of about 80 to 120 pounds dressed weight is split and laid on a large charcoal or propane cooker for four to eight hours, under the direction of the host and whoever is helping; the meat is basted or dressed in the local sauce and served with slaw, hush puppies, baked beans, Brunswick stew or, in South Carolina, hash and rice. It is the eastern Carolinas' form of the wedding, the homecoming, the tailgate, the political rally and the fire-department fundraiser.",
  "story": "The whole-hog feast is older than the name. Communal barbecues of whole pigs spread from Virginia into the Carolinas in the mid-1700s and fed church gatherings, fundraisers and political rallies; George Washington wrote of attending a barbecue on August 4, 1769. The pig pickin' is that feast on a trailer cooker. Its year is the church's and the college's: 'dinner on the grounds', family reunions, Thanksgiving and Christmas, graduations and weddings, and the tailgate — East Carolina University in Greenville has run a pig pickin' contest, the Pigskin Pig-Out, since 1985. Politics keeps it: local parties and candidates still use a pig pickin' to draw a crowd, and in 1983 Rufus Edmisten, running for governor of North Carolina, was overheard saying he had eaten enough barbecue, would eat no more, and was taking his stand. Ed Mitchell's first hog was a family pickin' in Wilson: at fourteen or fifteen he tended the fire after the men, having passed the moonshine, fell asleep, and his grandfather woke to a cooked pig and poured him a glass. Kingstree, in the Pee Dee, holds a Pig Pickin' Festival each fall for the vinegar-based barbecue of Williamsburg County; seventy teams competed in 2010. The name is the one thing the article is sure of: the meat is picked off the hog by the guests, and the gathering is named for it.",
  "how": "The host borrows or rents a cooker, buys a dressed hog, and lights charcoal or gas the morning of, or the night before for a big pig. The hog goes on meat-side down and is flipped once when it stops dripping fat; some cooks wipe the ash from the skin with paper towels or a whisk broom before the flip so the cracklings come out clean. The baste is the region's: mustard in the South Carolina Midlands, vinegar and red pepper flakes in eastern North Carolina, a ketchup base in the west. When the meat falls from the bone the pig is carried to the table and the guests pick, or a cook chops it at the block; sweet tea, beer and soft drinks alongside.",
  "today": "Held year-round in a mild climate; cookers are rented by the weekend across the Coastal Plain, the tailgate pickin' is a college-football fixture, and Kingstree's festival and ECU's Pigskin Pig-Out put it on a calendar."
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   "as": "eaten at the pickin with slaw and beans.",
   "rel": "event"
  },
  {
   "from": "pig-pickin-cake",
   "type": "dish",
   "name": "pig pickin' cake",
   "as": "the party it is named for and carried to; the name is no older than the 1970s, when the party got its name.",
   "rel": "event"
  },
  {
   "from": "pork-skins",
   "type": "dish",
   "name": "pork skins",
   "as": "where the skin is wiped clean of ash before the hog is turned, for the cracklings.",
   "rel": "event"
  },
  {
   "from": "sweet-tea",
   "type": "dish",
   "name": "sweet tea",
   "as": "poured at the pickin with beer and soft drinks.",
   "rel": "event"
  },
  {
   "from": "block-pit",
   "type": "pit",
   "name": "block pit",
   "as": "the party cooked on it.",
   "rel": "event"
  },
  {
   "from": "gas-and-electric-cookers",
   "type": "pit",
   "name": "gas and electric cookers",
   "as": "the same propane-versus-charcoal argument at the backyard cooker.",
   "rel": "event"
  },
  {
   "from": "hog-killing",
   "type": "pit",
   "name": "hog killing",
   "as": "the feast; the killing is the work. One is winter labor, the other a party.",
   "rel": "contrast"
  },
  {
   "from": "pig-cooker",
   "type": "pit",
   "name": "pig cooker",
   "as": "the party it exists for.",
   "rel": "whole"
  },
  {
   "from": "whole-hog",
   "type": "pit",
   "name": "whole hog",
   "as": "the gathering built on it: a whole hog cooked for a crowd and picked off the bones by hand.",
   "rel": "event"
  },
  {
   "from": "browns-bar-b-que",
   "type": "place",
   "name": "Brown's Bar-B-Que",
   "as": "Kingstree's fall Pig Pickin' festival is the competitive form of what Brown's cooks all year.",
   "rel": "event"
  },
  {
   "from": "hurseys-bar-b-q",
   "type": "place",
   "name": "Hursey's Bar-B-Q",
   "as": "the phrase on the South Church Street sign, 'Pig Pickin' Bar-B-Q'.",
   "rel": "term"
  },
  {
   "from": "scotts-bar-b-que",
   "type": "place",
   "name": "Scott's Bar-B-Que",
   "as": "Hemingway's spring Bar-B-Q Shag Festival is the town's version: a cookoff of pork barbecue and the state dance.",
   "rel": "event"
  },
  {
   "from": "wilbers-barbecue",
   "type": "place",
   "name": "Wilber's Barbecue",
   "as": "the 'Bone Box' on the menu is a pig pickin' in a tray: meat on the bone, pulled by hand.",
   "rel": "event"
  },
  {
   "from": "bob-garner",
   "type": "person",
   "name": "Bob Garner",
   "as": "the subject of his television special A North Carolina Pig Pickin', made with his son Everett.",
   "rel": "event"
  },
  {
   "from": "ed-mitchell",
   "type": "person",
   "name": "Ed Mitchell",
   "as": "the family gathering where he cooked his first pig at fourteen or fifteen while the men slept.",
   "rel": "event"
  },
  {
   "from": "fundraiser-barbecue",
   "type": "event",
   "name": "fundraiser barbecue",
   "as": "the same pig, sold by the plate instead of picked.",
   "rel": "event"
  },
  {
   "from": "political-barbecue",
   "type": "event",
   "name": "political barbecue",
   "as": "the North Carolina rally's usual form: a pig, a cooker, a candidate.",
   "rel": "event"
  },
  {
   "from": "barbecue",
   "type": "term",
   "name": "barbecue",
   "as": "the gathering the word also names — a barbecue as an event, still a pig.",
   "rel": "event"
  },
  {
   "from": "fixins",
   "type": "term",
   "name": "fixins",
   "as": "where the fixins are hushpuppies, slaw, baked beans or Brunswick stew, and in South Carolina hash and rice.",
   "rel": "event"
  },
  {
   "from": "hog",
   "type": "term",
   "name": "hog",
   "as": "the gathering named for pulling meat off the hog by hand; its hog is a barrow or gilt of 80 to 120 pounds dressed.",
   "rel": "event"
  },
  {
   "from": "pee-dee",
   "type": "term",
   "name": "Pee Dee",
   "as": "Kingstree's fall festival is a Pig Pickin', for the county's vinegar barbecue.",
   "rel": "event"
  },
  {
   "from": "cannibal-pig-sign",
   "type": "art",
   "name": "the pig that serves itself",
   "as": "the occasion a hand-painted plywood pig usually announces.",
   "rel": "event"
  },
  {
   "from": "fsa-barbecue-photographs",
   "type": "art",
   "name": "The FSA photographs of Carolina eating",
   "as": "the gathering these photographs stand next to: a crowd, a yard, food set out on boards.",
   "rel": "event"
  }
 ]
}