While the meat was cooking, Wang Zhenguo began presiding over the meat distribution.
After some calculations, it was determined that excluding the innards, each person could get a pound of lean meat. Meat was distributed by household, and the fat content could not exceed twenty percent of the total; otherwise, one household would get all the fat, leaving none for others.
A pig has only so much fat, and who wouldn't want it? The fat from the two pigs that went into the pot was set aside and distributed separately among the families.
The meat was categorized into three grades: first-grade fat at ninety cents, second-grade belly at eighty cents, and third-grade lean meat at seventy cents.
It's cheaper than in the grocery store, equivalent to giving back to the commune members.
