6" rolls like a Kaiser roll?
On Feb 4, 10:16?am, Brooklyn1 wrote:
It's a euphemism for eating pork chops and ham instead of pigs feet
and sowbelly.
From phrases.org.uk
This is the earliest printed form of the phrase that I have come
across - from the New York Times, March 1920:
Southern laborers who are "eating too high up on the hog" (pork
chops and ham) and American housewives who "eat too far back on the
beef" (porterhouse and round steak) are to blame for the continued
high cost of living, the American Institute of Meat Packers announced
today.
'High off the hog' has a similar pedigree, i.e. mid 20th century USA.
For example, the San Francisco paper the Call-Bulletin, May 1946:
I have to do my shopping in the black market because we can't eat
as high off the hog as Roosevelt and Ickes and Joe Davis and all those
millionaire friends of the common man.