[78-L] Dept of meaningless lyrics?^
Geoffrey Wheeler
dialjazz at verizon.net
Sun Apr 11 09:03:49 PDT 2010
“Porky and Bess.” Perhaps the worst reaction to a concern about taint
from “pork” was the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857 in India where various
native troop that were members of the Army rebelled over a rumor that
cartridges for a new Enfield rifle were wrapped in paper greased with
pig or beef fat. This angered Muslim and Hindu troops. There were many
other grievances leading up to the rebellion but the trigger was this
rumor.
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