In Popular Culture
- Gil Scott-Heron's famous piece, "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised", mentions figures such as "General Abrams and Spiro Agnew" eating "hog maws confiscated from the Harlem sanctuary..."
- The Joe Cuba Sextet's song, "Bang Bang," contains the refrain, "corn bread, hog maw and chitlins ."
- In the 1995 movie "Friday", Craig Jone (Ice Cube) is confronted by his Father (John Witherspoon) who accuses him of eating "all the hog maws", amongst other things.
- In the Office's December 6, 2012 episode "Dwight Christmas", Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson) serves Hog maw as the main dish for the Dunder Mifflin Pensylvania Dutch themed Christmas party.
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