pork over the Pali

[tambig]

Hi everybody!
I am new to Hawaii Threads...I grew up in Honolulu, but moved to the mainland to go to college, and have stayed away for 20 years!
I am homesick now....and wanting to reconnect.
I am remembering a story about it being bad to take pork over the Pali....does anybody remember that one? Your car is supposed to stop, and you can't go again until you eat the pork.....has it ever happened to anybody?
I feel better about my homesickness already!
Thanks everybody!
Tambig

[Pomai]

Re: pork over the Pali

Before fuel injection, car engines used carburetors. The logic behind the legend is that the gusting winds on Pali highway would "lean out" the fuel mixture in the carbs and cause the car to stall. That's it.

So what if a wild pig on the Koolau mountain traverses over the Pali area. Is it doomed? By a hunter, perhaps.

[cezanne]

Re: pork over the Pali

Urban legend. Dang I probably just wen bachi myself.

Hi everybody!
I am new to Hawaii Threads...I grew up in Honolulu, but moved to the mainland to go to college, and have stayed away for 20 years!
I am homesick now....and wanting to reconnect.
I am remembering a story about it being bad to take pork over the Pali....does anybody remember that one? Your car is supposed to stop, and you can't go again until you eat the pork.....has it ever happened to anybody?
I feel better about my homesickness already!
Thanks everybody!
Tambig

[Random]

Re: pork over the Pali

Before fuel injection, car engines used carburetors. The logic behind the legend is that the gusting winds on Pali highway would "lean out" the fuel mixture in the carbs and cause the car to stall. That's it.

So what if a wild pig on the Koolau mountain traverses over the Pali area. Is it doomed? By a hunter, perhaps.

A pig is still a pig, until it is dead and butchered. Then it becomes pork.

[buzz1941]

Re: pork over the Pali

Who you gonna call? Mythbusters

[Leo Lakio]

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Who you gonna call? Mythbusters

Would it be cool to have them do an all-Hawai`i show?

Upon further reflection - maybe not. Some things are "myths," but other topics are "sacred" - and I doubt they would respect (or even be aware of) the difference.

("Guys? Adam? Jamie? Uh, seriously... 'kapu' isn't just a word...")

[Leo Lakio]

Re: pork over the Pali

Someone sent me this link. (I get the feeling the filmmaker is not local, considering that they had a few confusing moments.)

[Bard]

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Someone sent me this link. (I get the feeling the filmmaker is not local, considering that they had a few confusing moments.)

Cool to watch though

Anyway, I thought the big one was driving over the Saddle Road on the big island with pork, due to the, ah, disagreements between Pele and Kamapua`a...?

[adrian]

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Nah, the bus didn't stall or do anything bad when I went over the pali.

(relating to Frank Delima as he told that story to a crowd)

[tambig]

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Good video...but isn't the bad stuff supposed to happen after midnight?

[Menehune Man]

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Good video...but isn't the bad stuff supposed to happen after midnight?

Only at Morgan's corner!!!

But yeah, the idea of no pork over the Pali still exists.

On a twist... My wife gave me trouble for taking a cool(HaHa!) piece of lava over the Pali to my Mom the other day and my brakes for the first time started making noice. Talk about Bachi!

[Mililani]

Re: pork over the Pali

Good question. Has anyone actually tried it or is really just a legend? The idea of having the Mythbusters try it sounds like a plan. If anything happens, better them than us. Unless there's someone out there brave enough to try it... cause, I ain't.

[Pomai]

Re: pork over the Pali

Good question. Has anyone actually tried it or is really just a legend? The idea of having the Mythbusters try it sounds like a plan. If anything happens, better them than us. Unless there's someone out there brave enough to try it... cause, I ain't.

One story I found says that carrying pork over the Pali angers the spirits, upsetting the relationship between the fire goddess Pele and half-man, half-pig demi-god, Kamapua'a. The car trouble is Pele's way of preventing Kamapua'a (the pork in your vehicle) from entering her domain. What I don't get is that the Pali is Kamapua'a's home. Is this Pele's way of saying he's not welcome there?

I wonder if meat delivery drivers only use the Likelike and/or H3?

[Da Rolling Eye]

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IIRC, it has something to do with a warrior (forgot his name) who, when trying to escape an army near Kuuloa side, was given the power to shape shift into a boar. He climbed that mountain and dug a hole through it near the top to escape into the ajoining valley. You can still see the hole if you look near the top of the mountain when standing in the state park across the street. It's almost perfectly round, btw. As for the scare factor of taking pork over the pali, a ghost story based on legend?

[Mililani]

Re: pork over the Pali

One story I found says that carrying pork over the Pali angers the spirits, upsetting the relationship between the fire goddess Pele and half-man, half-pig demi-god, Kamapua'a. The car trouble is Pele's way of preventing Kamapua'a (the pork in your vehicle) from entering her domain. What I don't get is that the Pali is Kamapua'a's home. Is this Pele's way of saying he's not welcome there?

I wonder if meat delivery drivers only use the Likelike and/or H3?

LOL - or just toss the pork over the pali