Pigs May Fly Too
Verbatim from ABC online is this update on a boarish bar: The Pub In the Paddock at Pyengana in north-east Tasmania has a new tourist drawcard. The pub is world-famous for its beer-drinking pig named Priscilla, who can scull a watered-down stubby in seven seconds.
Priscilla is getting old, so a mischievous successor – Priscilla Babe – is being trained as a replacement.
Tourists from all over the world travel to Pyengana just to buy Priscilla a beer. Owner Anne Free says it is crucial that she has a successor to keep her memory alive.
“I had a woman from Texas recently and she was so excited, she said, ‘is this the pub with the beer drinking pig?’,” she said.
“I said ‘yes’, she said … ‘I saw her on TV back home’.”
Ms Free says training a pig to drink beer is not easy. “Most pigs will drink beer, but you do have to train them to drink out of a bottle,” she said.
“It did take her a while to get the taste, she sort of played with the bottle and still does play with the bottle, she’s not the expert [that] Priscilla is.”
[For more lowdown on this little piggie, go to wee-wee-wee abc.net.au -trying out the Offbeat link. To get to the pub in person, Pyengana lies on St Columba Falls Road, off the Tasman Highway, half an hour northwest of St Helens. Phone 03-6373-6121]