They have to understand how the U.S. can afford all this, and how their tax money is being invested in our future rather than spent on useless pork.

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Public officials in Louisiana tend to be chosen for their ability to bring home the pork, rather than in telling angry people what they don't want to hear.

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Chef Pui Gor of Tim Ho Wan, a cheap, hole-in-the-wall, dim-sum-only restaurant with a cult following, makes a contemporary version of a bean curd skin roll, filling it with light shrimp rather than the traditional fatty minced pork.

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What Mr Meckler meant was that Mr Kingston impressed him as someone who would trim the budget rather than use his position to dole out pork.

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And many brands have also appeared to be contaminated with pork (that latter probably being inadequate cleaning of equipment rather than anything else).

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George senior, for all his love of football and avid crunching of pork rinds, was always seen as a north-easterner rather than a Texan.

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