Pig Skin

[Doc Tinker]

What do they do with the skin of the pig, after it's been slaughtered? Yeah, I know they have made footballs from it, but what else do they use it for? Do they have a bunch of illegal aliens chew the skins to make them soft?



Doc

 

[gitchesum]

Cracklins.

Down in Louisiana, they deep fat fry the skin in oil and they are called cracklins.

 

[ZEEEW]

We even have them in Utah, in the potato chip section



Eric

 

[Doc Tinker]

Anyone watch them slaughter pigs at the slaughter house? Do they do anything to make sure the skins are usable for the industry?



Doc

 

[DarrellB]

Yea, they scrape them up off the floor. :--)



Big D

 

[B.G. Smith]

Skin of the pig

Hey gitchesum, they don't deep fry the skins in oil, they put the skins in a big pot and heat them to remove the lard (hog fat). The cracklin is a by product of fat rendering, they then use the fat to deep fry what ever. Just trying to keep you straight since you're over here with us. bg

 

[me4osu]

Skin o' de swine

I had a friend from Lake Charles describe them as "Fat, fried in fat, and they give you a bucket o' lard to dip 'em in. " Tasty & healthy treat to get you to the next coronary by-pass.

 

[KPhillips]

I love fried pork skins and frequently take them over to my friends house when we work on jeeps, he doesn't like them though and saya they smell like ***... . oh well some people just don't know whats good.



kerryp

 

[gitchesum]

Re: Skin of the pig

Originally posted by B. G. Smith

Hey gitchesum, they don't deep fry the skins in oil, they put the skins in a big pot and heat them to remove the lard (hog fat). The cracklin is a by product of fat rendering, they then use the fat to deep fry what ever. Just trying to keep you straight since you're over here with us. bg

Thought I would simplify it for them there Northerners. I know the thought of how Cracklins are made sounds disgusting, that's until you actually eat one.

And everyone who had tried them know dang good and well you can't eat just one.

 

[Steve M]

Man them things combined with german beer will make you faaaaaarrrrrrtttttt!

 

[Jumbo Jet]

Went to one of our bacon processing plants a couple of weeks back. The skin (rind) off the pork bellies are sliced off, packed in large containers, frozen, and sent to our buddies south of the border to fry up and sell.



Have you ever been to a bacon processing plant?

 

[DarrellB]

Have you ever been to a bacon processing plant

Yes, but they call it the license branch around here



They got some really, I mean really large women that work in that place. :--)



It always smell like bacone there.



:-laf :-laf :-laf



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