# Pork chops! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 29, 2002, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pork-chops/100794 "2002-03-29T19:05:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pork-chops/100794/1 "2002-03-29T19:05:03Z")
Since Mrs. Dave-Guy is out of town for the weekend, with the kids, she asked my mother (who lives only a mile or so away) if she (my mother) would have me over for a pork chop dinner. Let me explain: I absolutely love pork chops. But Mrs. Dave-Guy is Jewish. Although she doesn’t keep kosher (in fact, she enjoys ham, bacon, and cheeseburgers), she draws the line at pork. Dunno why. She just does. Of course, I could hie myself to the store and buy my own damn pork chops, but apparently she doesn’t even want them in the house, hence her request to my mom. So now, after long deprivation, I’m gonna get a meal of pork chops tonight. _::does happy pork chop dance::_ ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pork-chops/100794/2 "2002-03-29T19:11:52Z")
…and applesauce! That’s swell! ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pork-chops/100794/3 "2002-03-29T19:19:31Z")
> [@](#): > > she enjoys ham, bacon, and cheeseburgers), she draws the line at pork Lisa Simpson: Dad those are all from the same animal. Homer: Sure some wonderful magical animal… Sorry couldn’t resist. I feel for you Dave. I love pork chops, but I have/had high blood pressure. Consequently my wife will only buy them rarely. The lenghts I go to … er never mind that. But I do the happy dance too when she will make them. ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pork-chops/100794/4 "2002-03-29T19:28:05Z")
At least she’ll deign to make them. Twenty years almost, and my wife has never made me a pork chop once. I have to sneak down to a speakeasy in the seamy part of town, use the special knock and say, “Porky sent me” when the guy opens the peephole. I’m so ashamed. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pork-chops/100794/5 "2002-03-29T19:28:44Z")
Damm you Dave! Now I **have** to go home and fry me up a mess of pork chops! Since I don’t have any better sense than to eat em til I make myself sick, I blame my near future tummy ache on you! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pork-chops/100794/6 "2002-03-29T20:31:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by swampbear \* > \*\*Damm you Dave! Now I **have** to go home and fry me up a mess of pork chops! \*\* FRY? you heretic! get em’ good and thick, roll em in soy sauce, sprinkle on some ginger and bake em! serve with potstickers and stirfry veggys. coleman’s mustard, too. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pork-chops/100794/7 "2002-03-29T20:37:50Z")
**gatopescado** , I hear ya on baking big, thick porkchops, but **Dave’s** got me jonesing for some thin pork chops battered in flour, salt and peppered and fried. He is evil! ---
**Author:** ![Stuffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@Stuffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stuffy)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pork-chops/100794/8 "2002-03-29T20:40:10Z")
Now **gatopescado** , let’s not be too hasty. Fried pork chops can be a treat until itself, especially if you have some tabasco sauce around the house. Personally I prefer them stuffed with my famous cinnamon apple stuffing, served with a nice crisp brocolli and caulifauer blend with garlic butter… Damn I’m drooling 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pork-chops/100794/9 "2002-03-29T20:48:01Z")
No no no! Salted and peppered and dredged in flour and fried is GOOD…but they MUST be served with butter beans simmered in chicken stock with onions and crushed red pepper, and a skillet of fresh hot cornbread… ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pork-chops/100794/10 "2002-03-29T20:57:29Z")
First the thread on Easter dinner, now this … I’m in pork overload right now. My vision is starting to blur. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pork-chops/100794/11 "2002-03-29T20:57:43Z")
> [@](#): > > Ukulele Ike: > > Salted and peppered and dredged in flour and fried is GOOD…but they MUST be served with butter beans simmered in chicken stock with onions and crushed red pepper, and a skillet of fresh hot cornbread… Damn you too **Ike**! You, along with Dave, are pure evil. Now I gotta have that too, along with some pickled okra. ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2002, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pork-chops/100794/12 "2002-03-29T21:18:22Z")
Well, however my mom makes them, and whatever she serves on the side, they’ll be just like mom used to make. (Well, I guess they would be, wouldn’t they?) WOO HOO! Pork chops in two hours! ---
**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pork-chops/100794/13 "2002-03-30T01:38:44Z")
Please don’t flame me, but the only way I can make good porkchops is to “Shake and Bake” them. Any other way makes them tough and dried out. Is there any hope for me? ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pork-chops/100794/14 "2002-03-30T11:47:27Z")
I’ll find out how my mom prepared 'em and let you know. Because they were juicy and tender and delicious. I ate two. Mmmmmmm…pork chops… ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pork-chops/100794/15 "2002-03-30T15:40:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by medstar \* > \*\*Please don’t flame me, but the only way I can make good porkchops is to “Shake and Bake” them. Any other way makes them tough and dried out. Is there any hope for me? \*\* I used to think this too, never made them any other way. Then Mr. Honey started cooking them on the grill. Mmmm they’re tender and extremely juicy. By the way, we always have homemade mac 'n cheese with them. It’s the perfect combination. Honey. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pork-chops/100794/16 "2002-03-30T15:49:44Z")
Chinawife makes **awesome** porkchops. In a slightly sweetened soy sauce with carmelized onions. Man, there babies are great. By coincidence, had some tonight already for dinner. I et two. ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pork-chops/100794/17 "2002-03-30T16:01:29Z")
> [@](#): > > Let me explain: I absolutely love pork chops. But Mrs. Dave-Guy is Jewish. Although she doesn’t keep kosher (in fact, she enjoys ham, bacon, and cheeseburgers), she draws the line at pork. Dunno why. She just does. But I always thought ham and bacon were pork. Am I wrong? ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pork-chops/100794/18 "2002-03-30T19:18:34Z")
Ham and bacon are, I suppose, pork _products_ (from the same wonderful, magical animal), but I think the difference is either in the curing or from whence on the piggy it came. Needless to say none of them are kosher. But it is only that meat labeled “pork” that Mrs. Dave-Guy shuns. Maybe it’s just the word itself that creates an aversion. I dunno. **Ukulele Ike** might could prolly clear this up. **Ike?** You there? ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pork-chops/100794/19 "2002-03-30T23:36:54Z")
Only two? You only ate two? Yeesh! You loser! Wuss. Pfffft. Two. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pork-chops/100794/20 "2002-03-31T00:31:28Z")
Gee … I hope someday **I** get the chance to pork the other white meat. 😉 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pork-chops/100794.md?page=2)