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Mrs. Butcher Sells All Kinds Of Meat
Published on: December 11, 2009 – 12:18 pm by Jillian Madison 
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Check out this photo from an old children’s book, that depicts a crazy pig butcher wielding a knife the size of her head:
Mrs. Butcher sells all kinds of meat, alright. Like the meat she just acquired by DISMEMBERING HER HUSBAND. And look in the top right corner! No wonder “Pa Cat” is late. He’s probably very, very late. In fact, with Ma Lecter on the case over there, he’s probably NEVER GOING HOME AGAIN.
Perhaps even more disturbing is this piglet who wants to work the supermarket when she grows up:
The piglet is staring right at the bacon! And she wants it! Badly! So badly, in fact, that her only aspiration is to work in a grocery store so she can handle it whenever she wants. There’s something very wrong with that. Somebody call Jodie Foster, there may be another cannibalistic psychopath in our midst.
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Something tells me that piglet is never going to grow up.
Smile while you still can, little piggy . . .
You know who wrote this story, don’t you?!
Richard SCARRY!!!!
Now you know…..
Next door to Mrs. Piggy’s Butcher Shop is Sweeney “Toad’s” Barber Shop :)
I love it!
LOL! Just don’t tell me they sell frogs legs.
They’re just full of porcine self-loathing.
Why is there a pickle barrel in the butcher shop? Do butcher shop’s normally have barrels of pickles?
And why is there FISH in the meat counter? Something here is not like the others!
Well, the local butchers here USED to have the pickle barrel, but my local guy just carries Hebrew Nat. now.
Awwww….I love Richard Scarry books! But yeah, those pigs do seem to have issues…
By the way, I believe these pages are from Richard Scarry’s “Best Little Word Book Ever” published by Golden Books. It is available for purchase from Amazon for $3.99 (new) or for as little as $0.01 (used).
It is. I have it for my toddlers bc I had it as a child.
Awe why did someone give you a thimb’s down???
Bleh to people! :D
Thanks for the information. THUMBS UP! :) I want to get this book for my little niece (and so I can laugh when I read it to her).
I LOVED Richard Scarry’s books when I was young, and this one was one of the best. I just loved seeing how so many things were labeled on each page – like a treasure hunt.
Let us see, what’s worse? Piggy in the case, or piggy in Paula’s face? Hmmmm…..
Richard Scarry must be a Julie Powell fan.
Julie Powell wouldn’t know “pea-ness” if it smacked her in the face.
I LOVED those books growing up, now they are kind of disturbing.
Kids already think food comes from a supermarket instead of farms and slaugterhouses. Why brainwash them to think the pigs actually enjoy being cut up into little pieces for us to consume?
What’s further demented is that both pigs are smiling. Perhaps these were enemies that have been cut down.
My son reads that book now. :-)
This why there were only three little pigs.
(slaps forehead)
“This IS why” I mean.
Oh man! These are from the Lowly Worm books! I distinctly remember both of these pages! I guess the whole cannabalistic pig angle escaped me when I was four years old.
Little does that little piglet know……he is actually about to be wheeled back to the ban saw.
LOL I TOTALLY read these as a kid!! I remember them!
Wow. This reminded me that a friend of mine, a vegan, runs a website called “Suicide Food,” about advertising depictions of “animals that desire to be eaten.” I’m not a vegan or a vegetarian (I eat animals), but I highly recommend taking a gander at his site whatever your eating habits are–it’s both humorous and disturbing at the same time: http://suicidefood.blogspot.com/
I’ve never been able to see those sorts of commercial depictions in the same way since. And I do think everybody, kids included, ought to know where their meat really comes from (i.e., not from a shrink-wrapped package in the grocery store).
And we’ve profiled some Richard Scarry pigs on the Suicide Food blog, too!
http://suicidefood.blogspot.com/2007/10/corruption-of-childhood.html
I’m so glad to see you on this site! Have to contact you soon….
Seriously, everyone should check out the Suicide Food website. The site owner/blogger is one of the best writers I’ve ever known, and that’s saying a lot.
Oh man – I LOVE this author! We have his “best Storybook Ever” – a classic. There was always something kind of “off” about his work. Like this one (which gets major LOLs from me for the last panel):
http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/2808/scarry001.jpg
I LOVED those books as a kid. I guess I didn’t remember his twisted sense of humor.
I guess it makes sense coming from a guy named Richard Scarry though.
Oh I loved Richard Scarry as a kid!
I had that book as a kid – it was called Postman Pig (I think). Looking back it was quite odd that the pig was working in a butcher shop…
btw – LOVE this site! HATE Guy Fiettwhateverwhocares…