Angeles City Local Post celebrates sisig

My post office box contained several interesting items when I checked it last Thursday, and I plan to share them with you over the next few days. The first is this postcard from Jamos C., the operator of Angeles City Local Post in Angeles City, Philippines. It bears a copy of a 1-peso local post stamp.

The text within the design reads “sisig”; when I enter that in Google Translate, it returns a translation of “head cheese,” which Wikipedia further defines as a cold cut terrine or meat jelly. Doesn’t really sound like my sort of food, but it does probably explain the presence of the pig in the lower right corner of the stamp.

I don’t have any other information (such as first day of issue and so forth) about this local post stamp, but I’m quite certain I don’t have many local post stamps from that part of the world—and no others picturing this particular dish.

Published 2024-03-10