Which little piggy went to market answers

The words of the well-known tale go:. That tweet quickly went viral — a retweet from author Roxane Gay didn't hurt — as more people realized the possibly "devastating" interpretation. This little piggy was sold to the slaughterhouse, this little piggy's turn will come, this little piggy was forced to eat his cow friend to get fattened up, this little piggy starved, and this little piggy screamed in terror all the way home to await his fate.

I just realized what this means. I truly thought the little pig was going grocery shopping for his friends, the other little piggies. Gives a malevolent feel to the entire foot region. One of the piggies had to eat his cow friend.

One starved. The final pig escaped screaming horror movie style back "home" to wait shivering in terror for the butcher's knife. I recently found out too and I hate my new found knowledge. Ignorance was better. Wee-wee-wee becomes the fearful yet ultimately fruitless cry of a creature that realizes it, too, was born to be sold and eaten. I searched and found several piggy truther discussion threads over the years.

But her tweet has gone viral and so far prompted more than 3, responses, many of them anguished:. I posted click polls to Facebook and Twitter to try to measure reaction to this observation. On both platforms, only 18 percent of some respondents claimed to have known that the first pig in the rhyme was not, in sad fact, off to pick up a few things at the store but instead was off to meet its maker.

In comments, some have blamed illustrators of children's books for perpetuating the happier interpretation. The results mean that, although percent of you will find this topic trivial in light of all that is going on in the world, more than 80 percent of you will nevertheless find it relevant. As for me, when I have grandchildren, that first little piggy is going to go to Aldi.

Conservation efforts still involve lots […]. Facebook YouTube Twitter Instagram. The Latest. An Unexpected Interpretation? Curious about where other nursery rhymes came from? Check out these articles. Comments comments. Animals Literature Meanings and Definitions. And why was a piggie eating roast beef? Was it in sammich form, with just a touch of horseradish? And how did piggy hold the sandwich?

And what about the last piggy? Did she cry like a pig, or was she French and mistranslated? Maybe she was saying, "Oui oui oui! There are just too many unanswered questions, so we have to ask ourselves