My father wouldn't touch the stuff afterward. In Hawaii I understand it has become a part of the local culture. Go figure.
There is also the old saying, "I haven't seen so much excitement around here since the day the hogs et my baby brother." From what I understand, it has happened, but my father again, who practiced medicine in a rural community for over 50 years cannot recall an actual incident. My former father in law was very strict about keeping his young daughters away from them. They will eat pretty much anything thrown to them, including rats, and I have read of them scavenging the dead on Civil War battlefields, so I tend to believe it has happened.
People keep young ones as pets, but a full grown hog is huge. The ones you see being trucked to piggy heaven are prepubescent. Even the pot bellied pigs that were popular a few years ago tended to get too big for many owners.
Don't forget head cheese, or souse. Gelatin replaces the fat in most lunch meats, so I think it is a bit healthier. Also, the name keeps the price low.
I got interested in gasoline fired appliances many years ago when I had a larger collection of Coleman equipment. Since I was a grad student, and it was probably the slow summer period, I went over to the law library and looked up the original patents from the early
1920s. There is a whole series granted to the eponymous Coleman and to his engineer, whose name escapes me. Basically what they figured out was the generator, used to gasify white gasoline. This led to the familiar Coleman lanterns and stoves, but also to whole house systems with table lamps and kitchen ranges, presumably for unelectrified homes. There are UL standards for how to pipe the stuff around.There are kerosene stoves on yachts that work on the same principal, but they are more complex. Kerosene is harder to gasify, so the generator has to be preheated with a fire in a small can of alcohol. There are also alcohol stoves that work much the same way, but are started by drizzling a bit of alcohol into a pan beneath the burner and lighting it there. Gasoline is a no no on yachts because of its tendency to collect in the bilge and launch the crew beyond the Styx. I don't know if the kerosene stove had been developed by WW2. It might, since the Coleman patents were mostly still in effect, have come later. At any rate, it would still have been a second fuel, since I don't think you can use #2 diesel, and white gas was not one of the top danger elements at the time.
There are also kerosene mantel lamps, of which I have one, that date from around the same period as the Coleman lamps, maybe earlier. Mine isn't presently in working order, but I have had it so in the past. It puts out about as much light as a 40-50 watt light bulb, but enough heat to light a cigarette off the outflow of the chimney. Those lamps, made by Alladin, work entirely differently. They have a circular wick, with air fed up the center, that indirectly heats the Wiesbach mantel. If you turn the wick up slightly too high, the mantel will carbon up. For some reason, a few grains of salt dropped down the chimney will clear it much quicker. There are one or two places that sell these things on the Internet, but I got my parts at an Amish lamp shop in Chester, IL.
LPG seems to be the dominant fuel these days, but it isn't necessarily better. It has less heat value than white gas or kerosene, and its fumes are as dangerous as gasoline. It is more convenient, and I guess we can spare a few launched yachties.