...when you go to the community supper and there are two dishes of scalloped potatoes, one with ham, and one with chunks of toast pork! LOL!Of course, we have a pork processing plant just a few miles north of us, and most of the farmers in the area raise corn for hog feed. Nebraska's nickname is the 'Beef State' and when I was a lad, in northern Kansas, just twelve miles from the Kansas-Nebraska line, a derogatory term for Nebraskans was 'Beefer'.
It's still true that Nebraska still leads the nation in beef production, but the State is number six in pork production as well. Part of the reason that beef still predominates, of course, is geography. The western portion of Nebraska is high desert grassland, not particularly suited for anything but stock grazing, so it's likely that the Beef State moniker will continue to be well deserved, but the eastern counties, where I live, might adopt the sobriquet 'Pork Country'!
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