ROASTERS | “Lechoneros,” the women and men who roast pigs for a residing, from the village of Lasip Chico in Dagupan City put pigs over a fireplace, repeatedly turning the steel pole till they flip brown on the first “Lechonan ed Barangay” on Saturday, May 6. Photo by Willie Lomibao
DAGUPAN CITY, Pangasinan, Philippines – Just an hour after they completed roasting over the coals, 14 lechons (roasted pigs) had been offered by contributors on the “Lechonan ed Barangay” staged by Barangay Lasip-Chico on this metropolis on Saturday, May 6.
The lechons, offered at P700 every kilo, had been snapped in a flash. That was decrease than the prevailing worth of P800 to P850 per kilo, barangay chief Aldwin Dexter Meneses stated in an interview.
The “Lechonan ed Barangay” was part of the barangay fiesta and was held to assist the residents interact within the trade that was affected by the excessive costs of pigs and the pandemic.
The exercise, staged for the primary time this yr, bore the theme the “The Rise of the City’s Lechon Capital.”
Meneses stated there are about 50 households whose livelihood is roasting pigs (maglilitson).
“The Lechonan ed Barangay is our way to helping them, to enable them to rise from the pandemic coupled with high prices of pigs,” he stated.
There was a free tasting, after which all of the lechon had been put up on sale.
The exercise, held at an empty lot alongside the Old de Venecia highway, lured not simply the villagers however motorists passing by.
Roasting began at 7 a.m. and completed at 10:30 a.m.
By 11:30 a.m. each morsel was offered.
—YOLANDA SOTELO
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