A Pig

I went to Dairy Queen the other day and stood in line with ... a pig.

Yup, you read that right. A pig, on a leash mind you, waiting patiently for his (her?) dish of vanilla ice cream and then promptly scarfing it down.

When I got home, I googled the dietary habits of swine and discovered they are omnivores. In their natural habitat they will eat both vegetation and meat, and if farm-raised, consume primarily corn and soybeans. No search I did suggested Dairy Queen as a source of porcine sustenance. 

A bit more research revealed the following ingredients are contained in DQ's famed frozen offering: milk fat, sugar, corn syrup, whey, mono and diglycerides, artificial flavor, guar gum, polysorbate 80, carrageenan, Vitamin A, vanilla flavor, and finally, 40% air. 

Air? The pig and I were eating AIR? Somehow it doesn't seem like either of us should have had to stand in line for that.

"You are what you eat." - Anthelme Brillat-Savarin