"I forgot about the lard!" - JANET VARNEY, Tennessee - Agriculture and Commerce, E Pluribus Motto #NationalLardDay #JanetVarney

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Today is #NationalLardDay so let's play:

#OilsAndFatsInASongOrMovie

That pot is around eight gallons in volume. Heavy, cumbersome and I don't reckon that large GW pots were used to hold gallons of lard for greasing the sleds that we don't even know were used to transport large megalithic stones. 🤔 #NationalLardDay

A Grooved Ware pottery vessel from Durrington Walls: a cylindrical clay pot in various shades of brown, orange and grey, decorated with incised lines making a geometric pattern. Reproduced with kind permission of Salisbury Museum CC.

Was lard used to build #Stonehenge? #NationalLardDay
Lipid residues in pottery from the nearby Neolithic village of Durrington Walls suggested animal fats may have been used as lubricants, helping transport Stonehenge's megaliths on 'greased sleds'.

(£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

Dinner time listening in the Louche/Thorne household tonight:

Pure Chewing Satisfaction by Lard*

*because it's #NationalLardDay!

www.daysoftheyear.com/days/lard-day/

Today is National Lard Day #NationalLardDay