ESPN the Magazine ruffled some feathers this morning when they sent out a picture on Twitter of what they said was a baby elephant being cooked at an LSU tailgate. LSU is playing Alabama tonight, whose mascot is an elephant.
Smoking a baby elephant. To eat. If you can top this, let us know where to find you. #1Day1Game twitter.com/ESPNMag/status…
— ESPN The Magazine (@ESPNMag) November 3, 2012
And despite fooling (and angering) many people. It is actually not a baby elephant. Rather, according to several fans, it is a pig with large ears and a trunk sewn on. which in and of itself still seems rather disturbing...
And apparently this is a common practice, as this image is from a different tailgate, and also shows what appears to be a pig disguised as a baby elephant...
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