Unkotare
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No, not that. You wannabe confederate traitors can stop touching yourselves and put away the LARPer cosplay outfits.
In the 1800s, New York was conspicuously filthy, smelly, and strewn with garbage. Before the era of comprehensive sanitation services, the 'solution' to this shameful state was to let pigs (yes, real pigs) roam the streets of the city by the thousands. They would - the idea went - consume the household waste that New Yorkers regularly tossed into the street without a second thought.
Foreign visitors were frequently taken aback at the site of wild (often quite large) swine casually wandering the streets of a major metropolis.
In the 1800s, New York was conspicuously filthy, smelly, and strewn with garbage. Before the era of comprehensive sanitation services, the 'solution' to this shameful state was to let pigs (yes, real pigs) roam the streets of the city by the thousands. They would - the idea went - consume the household waste that New Yorkers regularly tossed into the street without a second thought.
Foreign visitors were frequently taken aback at the site of wild (often quite large) swine casually wandering the streets of a major metropolis.