Seen On the Street

We've lived in China for six months now. A lot of the sights on the street that were shocking or at least amusing at first are commonplace now. But yesterday we saw something we hadn't ever seen... too bad for you, Reader, that I have no photo to show you. It was a bicycle cart pulling a very large load... that in itself is very common. But the cargo being pulled, that's what was different. It was pigs. Not live pigs. Not whole pigs. It was beheaded pigs. Beheaded, but with every other external body part intact. Legs and hooves, even tails. They appeared to be frozen solid. They were stacked four or five high on the cart, with the cart's owner peddaling along like carrying a load of beheaded, frozen pigs is a normal occurance in a very modern city such as Shanghai.

And I suppose in Shanghai, where old and new coexist everywhere, it is.