I stopped at Walmart yesterday afternoon to get a radio for my bathroom. I like listening to the news while I’m getting ready in the morning. While I was walking through the aisles, I saw this:
Of course I had to buy it. How could I not? I mean, after I determined that it was not a joke item.
While cooking, it didn’t pop like popcorn. It sort of sizzled and the bag inflated. The final product? It tasted like pork rinds. I’m no connoisseur, but they were pretty good. Not as good as freshly cooked rinds from Dollywood, but certainly as good as the bagged kind. I only ate a few. I don’t have much stamina when it comes to eating pork rinds.
Lloyd’s a big pork rind fan, but I’ve never had one. Something about the phrase ‘pork rind’. *jibblie*
I had to google ‘microwave pork rinds explain’, so now the mystery of ‘sizzle not pop’ makes a little more sense. We live in an amazing time!
Interesting. I’ve had pork rinds that come in a bag….and I think I like them a little. But I don’t know if I’d like them warm. They remind me of potato chips…..and I wouldn’t like potato chips warm.
I guess pork rinds don’t make nice shoes, huh?
I realize that last sentence makes no sense. Here’s how I arrived at it: 6 degrees of my brain
pork rinds, pork skin, raw pork skins, eww…why do we eat that, I guess because pork skin doesn’t make very good shoes?
I scare myself!
Haha! I laughed out loud! I don’t think I’ve heard of pigskin shoes, but aren’t footballs sometimes called “pigskin”? Is that because they were at one time made of pigskin?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_(ball)
No. Apparently, footballs had pigs’ bladders inside them, not pigs’ skin on the outside.
totally followed your train of crazy random thoughts, Peggy.
Pork Rinds… ew
Thank you Kim! You get me.
The original Hush Puppy shoes are made from pig skin. They are advertised as being more breathable than cowhide.
Thanks for the comment, John.
It made me wonder why they are called Hush Puppy shoes. Aren’t hush puppies a kind of fried dough?
I found an explanation here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hush_Puppies#History