Socrates has garnered certain notoriety in the newspapers when he lands a job at the meat factory Bacon and Chops in Kjalarnes. There he quickly learns about Bayonne Ham, London Pork, jellied pork, salami, Malakoff, Berlin and München sausages, beer sausage, bacon dogs, bite-size party dogs, and Mecca sausage. Not to mention paté, both creamy and chunky, and he witnesses the pizza revolution. Socrates immediately makes friends with all of the other
employees, except for the god-like chief executive. After having gone astray in everyday life, the factory becomes a sanctuary for Socrates, at least until one co-worker, who happens to be the head-foreman of the Nationalist Party-White
Candidacy, begins to have a strong influence on Socrates’ unstructured life-style.

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