Who likes cracklin's???....

[Big Muddy]

They may not be available in all areas of the country, but down here, they're available on every check-out counter of every store....and, I'm pretty much a conissieur of 'em, even though I eat them sparingly for health reasons.

They're a great little snack food, and they're lots of mom and pop operations that cook and sell them around here.

Yesterday, on our way home from our squirrel hunt, my two buddies and I stopped at a little country store for a soft drink....as we were getting in my truck to leave, a white van with "Kim's Cracklin's--Clarksdale, MS" written on the side, pulled up next to us....he was making a delivery to the store....I'd never heard of them, so I asked the guy standing beside the van, if they were a new business in the area....he said they were, and would gladly give each of us a bag to try, as a sample.

We thanked him, drove off, and each of us began ripping into our bags of cracklin's....they were seasoned perfectly, but had an excessively greasey after-taste to them....we each munched around on them for a while, but none of us liked them....when I got home, I gave the rest of them to Sandy.

During the night, and this morning, too, I had the screaming-sheeits....saw one of my buddies at the parts store, this morning, and he got 'em, too....tried to find Sandy this morning, and she was across the road, where she does her dumping....saw her make several trips out there.

So, if ya'll see any Kim's Cracklin's in your store, you better avoid those sumbiaches.

Those musta been some really bad cracklin's to give a dog the sheeits!!!

[jb]

If you eat shit like that, you deserve to shit, shit like that.

[HideHunter]

lol.. I'll display my igrance.. What's the difference between cracklins and pork rinds? The only cracklins I ever remember eating was when I was real young. Local locker would cook off a batch once in awhile and Dad liked them. I honestly can't remember much about them. We have a "Kettle-Cooked" pork rind up here. Heavy duty on the *hot* spices and pretty darned good. I try to pass on that kind of stuff (chips and all) when I can too, eddie. I like 'em too well.

[Tightline]

Most folks down here that eat cracklins also eat pickled pig feet and tails. Then there's chitlins (shitlins), head cheese (it ain't cheese) mince meat (?). Two types of shitlins (1)thumb squeezed and (2) stump slung, according to Granny on The Beverly Hillbillies. These people don't live very long, usually.

[Big Muddy]

You beez right, Hide, good eats for a snack....here's the skinny on the difference, no pun intended....there ain't much difference.

Cracklin's, pork skins, pork rinds, scratchings, and chicharrones are all basically the same thing....they are all just the fried skin portion of the hog....just depends on how much fat is left attached to the skin, when it's deep-fried, if any at all....that determines what the cook wants to call 'em.

They're all good in my opinion, when they're seasoned correctly....plain, bbq, or cajun are my favorites....heck, I've even eaten some of the new microwavable ones....I don't know how they do it, but they roast and puff up really well when nuked, too.

'Course my absolute favorite dish is cracklin' cornbread!!!

Here's a short little video of how they're made:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVL5SZ8uDOM

[Niner]

I like the Pork Rinds you get in the tater chip isle at the grocery stoe.
My Mrs. cannot STAND the smell of them, so I don't get them very often.

My Dad liked "cracklin' cornbread".....but I never did cotton to it.

[Buckrub]

Some people prolly never been to a hog scaldin'............

[Captain]

Love me some cracklings or pork rinds... Also like chitlins and pigs feet too.
Tried to get JB to eat cracklins when he was down here but he cannot even eat boiled peanuts. So it was a lost cause.
Take Care, Captain
PS: boiled peanuts are the official snack food of GoodHunting....

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[Buckrub]

Um, no..........no.....it ain't.

Well maybe it is, now that I think on it some more.

But I can tolerate cracklin's all right. I just don't like salt.

[BarryBobPosthole]

I agree with Captain. Still have one bag of frozen ones I ordered from pappa john's or whatever that place is called Eddie told me about. I've placed about three orders with them.

The wild injuns I grew up with used to butcher hogs once in a while and we rendered the lard down in a big cast iron pot in the front yard. We's scoop cracklins out of the lard when it got good and hot and they were scrumptious. Haven't had one in years. My smaller arteries snap shut just thinking about 'em.

BKB

[Captain]

Um, no..........no.....it ain't.

Yep it was thus proclaimed about 3 years ago.



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[Buckrub]

Only for the Inner Circle then.

Those of us that are 'barely members' can't stand 'em.

[Chicken Dinner]

I remember not being too sure about the first boiled peanut I ate. (It might have have been the consistency...). It. may have been the wilderberry juice, but I kept after them and developed quite a hankering for them.

Kind of reminds me of something else.

[Buckrub]

They remind me of what is inches away from what it reminds you of.

[BarryBobPosthole]

Only for the Inner Circle then.

Those of us that are 'barely members' can't stand 'em.

Oh, you're a member all right.

BKB