[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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