In British English, it's "never buy a pig in a poke", where 'poke' is
an archaic word for 'bag'.  There is another slang phrase, to "let the
cat out of the bag", which is to reveal the truth, for instance that
the pig in the poke is actually a cat.  Evidently, passing cats off
unseen as piglets has a long and storied history.

I now return you to the bugzilla hissy-fest.

Tony.
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