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title: "A Pig Called Wanda: Butchers of Gastown"
description: "Saturday the Butchers of Gastown got together to take care of Wanda. * Anthony * Ben * Boris * Evan * James * Mark Karen and I documented. Andrea and Rachael stopped by for a visit. And it was all..."
url: https://somisguided.com/2009/03/30/a-pig-called-wanda-butchers-of-gastown/
date: 2009-03-30
modified: 2009-03-30
author: "Monique"
type: post
lang: en
---

# A Pig Called Wanda: Butchers of Gastown

Saturday the Butchers of Gastown got together to take care of Wanda.

* Anthony

* Ben

* Boris

* Evan

* James

* Mark

Karen and I documented. Andrea and Rachael stopped by for a visit. And it was all good.

**Highlights**

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Breakfast

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Wanda arrives.

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Butchering. Wanda’s cuts are done and then she’s put in the fridge.

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Hours of meat cutting and grinding in order to make sausage.

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Ribs with Ben’s Rub

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Breakfast Wine for Monique.

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Ribs and sausage. Both are delicious.

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Up close and personal with the sausage.

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Close examination of the rub.

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Skin sausage blow-out.

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Boris makes bacon.

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Anthony’s grub. I’d eat it any day.

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Anthony makes salami.

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Leah makes sausage.

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I was there.

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Mark receives.

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Anthony inspects the work.

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The kitchen clean up.