July 11, 2006

The Online Pork Rind Resource
posted by Argh 18 years ago
  • When I was a kid mom and dad would drive us all in the travel trailer down to Baja California for the summer. I remember body surfing for hours at a time, and then exausted we'd collapse on the beach. Vendors would walk down the sand selling Mexican Coca Cola (always tasted better than the American stuff) while others carried a wooden rack that had 4'x3' sheets of fresh fried chicharones (pork rinds) strapped to them. You'd pay the guy a quarter and he'd slice you out a square foot or so of good, fresh, crunchy pig skin which he'd douse with Buffalo chili sauce. Damn good eating. I'm getting hungry just writing about it...
  • Best bagged chicharrones :Mac's (I like the Red Hot's). But "fresh" is good too.
  • Tastes the same as human.
  • You mean it tastes like chicken?
  • No.
  • aka 'Pork Scratchings' or 'Pig-snacks' in UK-ish. Yum. I like the ones with hair. Also, when we in the UK roast pork, the 'crackling' is my favourite bit. More please Mum!
  • I get queasy just reading the WORDS "pork rind."
  • A month ago I brought some pork rinds to a BBQ. They were pretty crappy quality. However, a friend didn't know what they were, and tried them. She commoneted on how they were good and someone told her they were pork rinds. Even after that, she still didn't know what they were made from. We told her and she was freaked out. After that we started throwing them in the stret to see if cars driving by would run over them. And that's what graduate students do on the weekends...
  • Have you tried the microwavable pork rinds? I swear that, when you eat them, they bite you back. Try it for yourselves and report back to me.
  • well goddamn then.
  • Pork rinds are no chewties (very annoying embedded mp3) but they mess with the brain squirrel (you tube)
  • That's some pig! Terrific!
  • When frying your pork skin, pour some lemon juice on it. It makes it better and softer.
  • Well, which is it?