In praise of Pork Scratchings
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Dunno, but I’m sure Chinese cuisine will have a use for it. It could be they’re cooked in the dish sold as fried pork intestines in Szechuan and Han restaurants, though I’d read that they were colons, not rectums, which are just a bit further up the bum.
They’re a bit like calamari, but tasting of pig instead of squid.
Apparently some unscrupulous traders and restaurants sell them as calamari
WouldBe
Dislicksick
Crispy won bums.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
I mean give me enough szechean pepper and chilli and I probably would after a few beers.
JimW
支那暗杀团
You get pig skin here, my wife's a fan, looks like a massive pork scratching but never eaten it myself.
newme
Giant in Pastyland now
Yeh it's a but shitty tho
newme
Giant in Pastyland now
Can get it in morrisons or a butchers, did loads of it alongside whenever oven was on already
JimW
支那暗杀团
This seems to come fried like a scratching, it's all crispy and bubbled. She usually does it in soup so it ends up soft.
Fairweather
Well-Known Member
I last had some about five years ago in a pub and lost a filling, lethal things if you’ve got dodgy gnashers.Not sure my teeth could cope with them anymore.
Isn’t there a French sausage that uses something like that? Or maybe the intestines as casings? They stink to fuck by all accounts.
dessiato
🇪🇸 my spirit is crying for leaving
For me it has to be chicharrones. I love them. My method is to soak the pork belly overnight. Next day I drain, put them in a pan, cover them with water and slowly boil them till the water has evaporated. At this point I let them continue to cook in their own fat. When they are crisp and golden brown they're ready.
WouldBe
Dislicksick
It's called getting older.Why is everyone’s teeth so fucked up? you’re supposed to brush them, you know.
I know, I know good teeth privilege. Probably bite me on the arse next time I go to the dentist.
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
Appropriate choice of phrasing there!Why is everyone’s teeth so fucked up? you’re supposed to brush them, you know.
I know, I know good teeth privilege. Probably bite me on the arse next time I go to the dentist.
Anyway, I went vegetarian before I gave up being religiously Jewish so I've never really had an opportunity to eat treyf, and pork scratchings always seem like one of the most intriguing of meaty foods, definitely one I'd try if I ever had a day off from being veggie or something. They seem like they'd be properly fucking rank and maybe amazing.
weltweit
Well-Known Member
They are amazing
and plenty salty ..
mojo pixy
שיר חדש
Yes, andouillette
how France came to be famed for its food I'll never really understand .. and en plus I'm a massive francophile, moi.
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mx wcfc
Well-Known Member
Absolutely disgusting food, Tried it once in France. Never ever again. Not only is the casing intestines, the contents are too.Yes, andouillette
mojo pixy
שיר חדש
It looks great when it's cooked, but the smell.... oh la la. we all draw a line somewhere between edible and non edible, and andouillette is more or less where I draw it.
I can be squeamish about food and don’t like eating meat on the bone at all, but there is something about pork scratchings and the way the fat oozes out and dissolves on your tongue.
Sort of similar sensation to a prawn cocktail skip I think - though it must be over a decade since I’ve had a pack of them.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Yes, andouillette
I tried them in Dijon. I'm can be quite adventurous with food, but they were rank.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
I think there was an attempt to market vegetarian 'pork' scratchings a few years ago
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I blame ADHD (never remember to brush at night and probably don’t brush enough in the morning cos I get bored scrubbing)Why is everyone’s teeth so fucked up? you’re supposed to brush them, you know.
I think I’m probably mildly neurotic and prone to fretting. So even if I don’t brush my teeth I will quietly internally hector myself about it.
kittyP
Pluviophile
IMHO scampi fries and pork scratchings are equal at the top of the chart of pub snacks
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Not a bad batch from Meat in the Box. Wish I'd ordered more.
Shechemite
Be the sun and all will see you
Don’t tell my rabbi, but pork Scratchings are delicious (who the hell prefers crisps, must have something wrong with them). Second only to the fried pigs ears i once had in Benidorm in terms of life shortening sinful deliciousness
Shechemite
Be the sun and all will see you
The night is still young
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Mail order as part of a meat box sadly. Kicking myself I didnt order more.
