The artist, Meghann Snow, writes:

The story behind "can i pork ya," comes from my families past business as being in the hay day being one of the largest meat distributors of Cleveland. This drawing is from my first series of subway card drawings that I created in 2005 while I was studying at The New York Studio program. I made about a total of 300 drawings and exhibited them for our one night only exhibition in TRibeca, Ny.