Thursday, November 29, 2012

THE FIRST WORD


Porkopolis
The city of Cincinnati—whose population grew to 160,000 in 1860, from 2,500 in 1810—became known as "Porkopolis" because of the number of hogs its slaughterhouses processed annually.

Meatopolitan monikers are fairly popular: there is a Baconopolis event in Seattle (and Cincinnati has also been called Baconopolis); the city of Napier in New Zealand has been called Muttonopolis, and Long Point, Ontario, on Lake Erie, has been called Duckopolis (for the quality of the duck-hunting).

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