Who invented this little piggy

HuffPost Personal Video Horoscopes. Follow Us. Terms Privacy Policy. Part of HuffPost Parenting. All rights reserved. Getty Images. There's nothing quite like the awesome power of the internet. It could also ruin your entire childhood in a single tweet. But, of course. He didn't go to THE market. He went TO market.

Never look onto "Mary, Mary quite contrary" whatever you do! Oh, Humpty Dumpty was a cannon by the way. You sure? Suggest a correction. Sure, one stayed home, and one, for some reason, did not eat roast beef. But the wee-wee-wee was a squeal of porcine delight at the prospect of returning to the sty, right?

Yet the fate of the biggest oinker was always there in plain sight. It had no agency. It was a product, not a customer.

Wee-wee-wee becomes the fearful yet ultimately fruitless cry of a creature that realizes it, too, was born to be sold and eaten. I searched and found several piggy truther discussion threads over the years.

But her tweet has gone viral and so far prompted more than 3, responses, many of them anguished:. I posted click polls to Facebook and Twitter to try to measure reaction to this observation. On both platforms, only 18 percent of some respondents claimed to have known that the first pig in the rhyme was not, in sad fact, off to pick up a few things at the store but instead was off to meet its maker.

In comments, some have blamed illustrators of children's books for perpetuating the happier interpretation. Check out this quiz. One of the things parents tend to leave out when telling nursery rhymes to their children is the potentially dark and dreary backstories behind them. Some have interpreted this to mean that the pig is going to market for slaughter. So, the question remains: is This Little Piggy an innocent rhyme to teach children about their extremities, or an ominous poem about pigs to slaughter?

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