Like with a lot of other things Florida marches to its own drummer, to put it nicely. The White House has the yearly turkey pardon but in Florida it's a pig pardon and instead of Thanksgiving it's done at Christmas time. For the past seven years two pigs have been pardoned by the mayor of Miami, this years piglets were Glinda and Elphaba who will spend the rest of their lives at a sanctuary south of Miami. The reason it's pigs at Christmas instead of turkeys at Thanksgiving is Miami has a large Cuban population and part of their Christmas traditions is to roast a whole piglet in either an underground pit, in a special metal box, or on a spit and yes, it originally started as a joke but took off from there.
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