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A photograph of boxes of Tyson Food products bearing labels identifying the contents as [inverted] Boneless Pork Rectums originated (as far as we know) in 2007, when it was posted to the Taiwan-based Forumosa message board by a user who described it as a picture Taken last week outside a local dumpling shop: Tyson declined to verify for us whether the displayed photograph was a genuine picture of one of that company's products, but we see no reason to doubt that it is. Unlike such notorious fictional gag items as fish assholes, pork rectums (including the inverted variety) are a not uncommon food product, used in such dishes as chitlins (or chitterlins) and vended by many different companies in a variety of countries. The image was later (quite poorly) altered to make it appear as if the packages bore a McDonald's logo, and an appended rumor held that the product was used in the chain's McRib sandwiches. However, the image was identical to the original and the story of its origin differed when it began circulating:
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