# Dumbest Mythbusters question ever. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 10, 2011, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-mythbusters-question-ever/595794 "2011-09-10T04:12:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-mythbusters-question-ever/595794/1 "2011-09-10T04:12:50Z")
They go through a lot of pig carcasses, which may be beat up (“tenderized”) but are perfectly edible. Do they get sick of having a pig roast every week? No, I didn’t think so, either. I’m just jealous. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-mythbusters-question-ever/595794/2 "2011-09-10T12:17:03Z")
Huh? ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-mythbusters-question-ever/595794/3 "2011-09-10T12:27:49Z")
They don’t eat their experiments. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-mythbusters-question-ever/595794/4 "2011-09-10T12:32:50Z")
Gah! I just had a vision of them chowing down on the ‘can’t sell the expensive car because of the dead guy’ myth and heaved. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-mythbusters-question-ever/595794/5 "2011-09-10T12:42:10Z")
I think their pigs get somewhat unhealthily contaminated. With shrapnel, usually. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-mythbusters-question-ever/595794/6 "2011-09-10T13:27:54Z")
More importantly, the carcasses probably sit out at room temperature for a while and spoil. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-mythbusters-question-ever/595794/7 "2011-09-10T13:36:26Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > They don’t eat their experiments. … Unless it’s an experiment about eating, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-mythbusters-question-ever/595794/8 "2011-09-10T13:36:42Z")
Also, it would be adding ingest to injury. ---
**Author:** ![audit1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@audit1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audit1)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-mythbusters-question-ever/595794/9 "2011-09-10T13:37:00Z")
I.m sure they can easily find a way to dispose of them. C-4 solves a lot of problems. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-mythbusters-question-ever/595794/10 "2011-09-10T13:46:31Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > Also, it would be adding ingest to injury. …I believe that’s ‘insalt to injury’… ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-mythbusters-question-ever/595794/11 "2011-09-10T17:01:50Z")
> [@audit1](#): > > I.m sure they can easily find a way to dispose of them. C-4 solves a lot of problems. As people on the Oregon coast found out years ago, that doesn’t so much dispose of something as scatter it over a wide area. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-mythbusters-question-ever/595794/12 "2011-09-10T17:04:19Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > As people on the Oregon coast found out years ago, that doesn’t so much dispose of something as scatter it over a wide area. They just didn’t use _enough_. Had a whale of a good time, though. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-mythbusters-question-ever/595794/13 "2011-09-10T17:42:18Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > More importantly, the carcasses probably sit out at room temperature for a while and spoil. I think they’re also pigs that died of natural causes, which generally don’t get eaten. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-mythbusters-question-ever/595794/14 "2011-09-10T17:52:10Z")
What’s the poink of this thread? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-mythbusters-question-ever/595794/15 "2011-09-10T18:12:46Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > More importantly, the carcasses probably sit out at room temperature for a while and spoil. > [@JAMIE HYNEMAN](#): > > And by the way, we have to note that we have a strict policy that any of these animals we get from the butcher, we eat. If we can’t eat it, we donate it to a soup kitchen. We go to some length to make sure the carcasses are kept refrigerated while we’re not working with them. [http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20178884\_2,00.html](http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20178884_2,00.html) ETA: I knew I’d seen that someplace. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-mythbusters-question-ever/595794/16 "2011-09-10T18:22:27Z")
I wonder what a pig tastes like after it’s been dropped out of a helicopter. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-mythbusters-question-ever/595794/17 "2011-09-10T18:24:51Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I wonder what a pig tastes like after it’s been dropped out of a helicopter. You shouldn’t eat pork once it’s gotten high. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-mythbusters-question-ever/595794/18 "2011-09-10T18:47:51Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I wonder what a pig tastes like after it’s been dropped out of a helicopter. Extra tender! But watch out for the bone chips. I’m imagining the spouse of a MB staffer looking in the freezer during hiatus, noting the lack of roast pig, and asking, “Honey, when do you guys start filming again?” And Jamie is a chef, so it’s probably really good roast pig. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2011, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-mythbusters-question-ever/595794/19 "2011-09-10T23:09:17Z")
Shouldn’t this thread be in the BBQ Pit? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2011, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-mythbusters-question-ever/595794/20 "2011-09-11T01:17:33Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I wonder what a pig tastes like after it’s been dropped out of a helicopter. With God as my witness, I thought pigs could fly. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dumbest-mythbusters-question-ever/595794.md?page=2)