Why is bacon so darn good, yet pork rinds so disgusting?

Pork rinds are good man! While we are on the subject you have not lived until you have tried this bacon

Bacon made any other way simply is a waste

Made fresh at Silver Dollar City they are awesome actually. Top with hot sauce yummy!

I actually can’t stand most pork products. Sausage and bacon are the two main exceptions. Mmmmmm bacon.

oddly enough I quite enjoy scrapple and think pigs head tastes fantastical.

ueL I’ve heard of Amish scrapple haven’t had it though.

@KNOWITALL Did you mean Steal Your Dollar City?!?!

Is that the one in Branson?

@DAN yes I live about 30 min from there. How do you know of it?

I don’t eat meat, but I do eat fish, so if I need a jolt of salt, out comes the anchovies.

I liked ‘porkie rinds’ as a kid, and there is actually a non-meat version that you cook in the microwave. They’re hard and flat, but when you microwave them they fill with air like pork rinds. I’ve not had them in a while, but they were last available in the Mexican section of the Walmart produce department. Looked like little flat red wheels with spokes.

Morningstar farms makes a sausage patty that’s indistinguishable from real.

Arent’t you in Rolla, @KNOWITALL? That’s only 30 minutes from SDCity?

Because bacon is made from cuts of meat while rinds are made from rendered and de-fatted skin.

@Darth_Algar Bacon in the US is made from pork bellies. So are pork rinds.

@KNOWITALL I cooked at many restaurants in Branson and lived there for7 or 8 years.

I’m crazy for fork rinds! Yeah! More fork rinds for me!

They are both pig disgusting

@ibstubro
Fish is meat.

I love pork rinds (we call it Crackling over here, or pork scratchings if it’s salted and served in a bag). But I try not to eat them often because it’s seriously not at all healthy.

@Ibstubro Not Rolla, I’m just outside Springfield. @Dan That’s cool, where are you now?

@El_Cadejo The pride of Pennsylvania.

Pork rinds are disgusting to me, but some people love them!

Porky rinds are delicious!

^^See?

@flip86

That may be, but it doesn’t change the fact that bacon is from cuts of meat, while pork rinds are from the skin (hence the name “rinds”).

I agree with @flip86, pork rinds are disgusting. The ironic thing about that is that they “put me through college!” My dad was an executive at a plant that sold fried pork rinds, and that is where my parents got the money for school. I have a reason for abhorring them, though. The process involved in preparing them causes cancer and it’s a big problem where I’m from.

I’ll bite, @GracieT. How are rinds made? Honestly. I have an ongoing (low level) debate about pork rinds being skin.

I don’t honestly know, actually! All I do know is that they’ve caused many people I love to get cancer. The best part of all is that where I’m from also has a plant that made parts for Ford, a plant that was an oil refinery, and an army tank plant. If you somehow avoided getting sick you were lucky. I can blame the pork rinds for some people’s cancer (my dad included) though, because it was a half hour away from the town with all of these other plants, and all people involved with the pork rinds got colon cancer. (Weird, right?)

People yammer all the time about “thinking globally.”

Well here’s your opportunity to literally put your money where your mouth is.

Spain especially, Italy and Mexico include the skin in certain pork dishes.

Man up.

Points for “I don’t honestly know” @GracieT. Preferable to BS.

@SecondHandStoke Except pork rinds don’t actually count as food….

^ And McDonald’s does?

@SecondHandStoke Can’t honestly tell ya the last time I’ve eaten fast “food”.