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A flavorful and easy way to make crispy carnitas using your slow cooker!

A flavorful and easy way to make crispy carnitas using your slow cooker!

And for its part, the McRib makes a mockery of this whole terribly labor-intensive system of barbecue, turning it into a capital-intensive one. The patty is assembled by machinery probably babysat by some lone sadsack, and it is shipped to distribution centers by black-beauty-addicted truckers, to be shipped again to franchises by different truckers, to be assembled at the point of sale by someone who McDonald’s corporate hopes can soon be replaced by a robot, and paid for using some form of electronic payment that will eventually render the cashier obsolete.

"We are dropping our comparison to chicken," added Pork Board chief executive officer Chris Novak. From now on, he said, "pork stands on its own." THE PORK STANDS ALONE

"I love pork. La la laaa. Get some."

"It's the worst combination you could have. I think that people should steer clear of the Ukrainian Snickers."