"I'm Not Leaving Until I Eat This Thing" by John T. Edge, was a very interesting profile. I thought it was very gross, yet intriging. Pickled pig lips are not the everyday subject that people talk about all the time or at all. I didn't even know that pickled pig lips even existed! Personally, they sounded really gross from the descriptions. When he started explaining the process of the ladies taking the frozen pigs and cutting off their lips and slicing the fat away; all I could think of was them doing that to an actual person. How disgusting! I also didn't believe that anyone would ask for different colored pickled lips for holidays and special events. Who would even eat them. I felt like he was lying about how people sold pickled pig lips everyday and they are in demand. I feel like oil is in demand, not pickled pig lips. That part of a pig is supposed to be thrown away, not another orderve.
Other than how gross the subject was, I thought John T. Edge did a very good job of describing the people, the pickled pig lips product company and the pickled pig lips. I could picture the man with the dark mustache who delivered the pickled pig lips. I liked the part where he said the pickled pig lips were in like "Kool-Aid- red slurry of hot sauce, vinegar, salt and food coloring." This part was yet disgusting, but so descriptive that I could taste it. One other thing that bothered me about this profile was that I feel like he jumped around a lot. The story didn't really flow. He would go from a personal experience of trying to eat a pickled pig lip to describing the man who was delivering them. I think it was the history of the pickled pig lips that really messed up the flow of the profile.
"The NewYork Pickpocket Academy" by John McPhee, was very confusing. I didn't understand the profile at all. All the pickpocketing that he described coming from different people at different times in Brooklyn made this profile story the most confusing. When he started talking about the random women who got pickpocketed was just another turn around in the story. The little boy was really random too. A good part to this story was that he showed that people are stealers and thieves, but they also are good people. For example, after the lady got pickpocketed other people in the market started putting money and food together for her. I thought it was ironic how the lady went home and then came back to the market to spend the donated money that she lost and possibly get pickpocketed again.
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