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| | Times & Seasons » Book Review: Green Eggs and Ham |
 | | However, the fact that the ham is green indicates that the pig from which it came must have undergone some sort of genetic modification, and if the modification extended to making the pig chew its cud, then the meat would no longer be prohibited. |
 | | The ham is employed as a representation of the seed of Ham (who were once unjustly considered pure descendants of Cain and therefore thought to be recipients of his curse). |
 | | Perhaps “Ham” really is the Biblically cursed “Ham,” while “green eggs” is really a veiled, pejorative reference to “collared greens.” If so, the book title is a horribly insensitive reference to outdated Mormon racial theologies of cursed lineages, while a simultaneous invocation of Southern White racist culinary stereotypes, and I, for one, am extremely offended. |
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