~ Got Pork? ~

by Tina~in_ut

Hubby and I had dinner the other night with some friends from Argentina, Ana and Julio. We were joking around with some mutual friends about a mirror they had just purchased. We told them to put it on the ceiling over their bed, and from there, the jokes just kept getting worse and worse. At one point, Ana made a joke about eating pork which made Julio laugh and laugh. I didn't get it, but when Julio laughs like that, you know there's a good story!

Apparently, the President of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez, was speaking to members of her country's pig farm industry. She told them that she had just recently found out that eating pork improves your sex life. She stated, "It is much more gratifying to eat some grilled pork than to take Viagra." She then went on to joke that "it was all good" after spending a satisfying weekend with her husband, former President Nestor Kirchner. It finally dawned on her what she said, "I just realized what I said - Kirchner will kill me." Although her point was to announce subsidies for the pork industry, her speech got a lot of air play on local radio and television stations.

Ana and Julio were mortified when I told them that I was going to write this. They love Argentina and don't want to shed any kind of negative light on it. I just couldn't help it! I thought the whole thing was hilarious. I can't imagine anyone not wanting to get porked~