 LINKS:
If you have a Pork Scratchings website, it would be great if you could let us know, so we can add it to this links page.
 UK PRODUCERS:
Q Pork Scratchings - Ace Pub Supplies manufactures Q Pork Scratchings, crackling, crunch and a variety of snacks and cleaning products in the heart of the Black Country.
Mr P's - Made in Walsall from the finest pork rind, they are carefully hand cooked using a traditional Black Country recipe. Using this recipe we produce what many people describe as "the best tasting Pork Scratchings on the market", see the review.
Midland Snacks - Based in Wolverhampton, West Midlands, since 1981, Midland Snacks UK is an established and successful, privately owned company which is well known and respected within the industry. We produce traditional "Black Country" Pork Scratchings and Pork Crunch made only from the best quality Danish rind.
Yorkshire Produce - A small family business in the Yorkshire area that produce their own cooked meats. They are testing the water with some of their produce, see the review.
Freshers Foods - Based in Wigan, Lancashire, UK. Freshers Foods Ltd specialise in producing high quality traditional British snacks. They also have a good History page written by Julie Openshaw.
Maguire Snacks - a family operated business based in Beragh, County Tyrone. They presently supply two types of product (Pork Crunch and Pork Crackling) to licensed retailers throughout Northern Ireland.
Westones Wholesale Ltd - they market their own brand of traditional Pork Scratchings. The brand has been under manufacture for almost 15 years now, and is extremely popular locally and nationally.
Westones pork scratchings have won awards from the Daily Express after being recommended by CAMRA (Campaign For Real Ale) for being the best pork scratchings on the market.
Green Top Snacks - Established in 1974 by John Edwards. In those early days John used to supply local publicans with pork scratchings he made out the back of his butchers shop in Pesall.
 US PRODUCERS: not really playing the game, but worth knowing about!
Evans Food - Pork cracklins are another favorite with a hearty crunch and distinct bacon flavor. Similar to pork rinds, they are produced from pellets, which are cooked pork skins. However, cracklin pellets are unmistakable in the fact that they are made from thicker and meatier raw material. By virtue of the fact they are popped from a denser pellet they are more substantial than pork rinds with a decisively robust crunch & flavor.
Microwave Pork Rinds - Whatever next!.
Shearer's - manufactures and distributes award winning chips and snacks.
 AUSTRALIAN PRODUCERS:
 NZ PRODUCERS:
SNIKS PORK CRACKLE - tasty bite-sized, mouthwatering pieces of seasoned pork crackle/scratchings made in Cambridge, New Zealand.
 DANISH PRODUCERS:
 DUTCH PRODUCERS:
FANSITES / REVIEWS:
Pork Scratching World - The site aims to be a repository of all things Scratchular, with links, reviews, information.
Walsall World of Pork - Everyone knows that real champagne has to come from the Champagne region of North-East France and that true truffles are the ones found under trees by pigs and not the ones you get in Thornton's. Perhaps less well known is the fact that for a packet of pork scratchings to be authentic, it must have come from an industrial estate somewhere within the boundaries of Walsall. Likewise, no visit to Walsall is complete without a trip to the pub and a packet of scratchings to accompany your pint (bitter, not lager).
PorkRind.com - Hmmm, if what they show was made in America, you can keep em! Rinds obviously is not Scratchings!
Paul Gray - was half way through his packet of Best Ever Mr Porky Pork Scratchings, he was shocked to discover a beautiful gem of a scratching. click here to take a look at it!
RECIPES:
thepassionatecook - A recipe for Yellow-fin tuna steaks stuffed with pork scratchings.
Deep fried pork rinds
- The recipe doesn't seem like rocket science, but it's just not quite right... ...from a UK perspective.
PUB SITES:
Rate Beer - Rate the beer you drink!
Bottled Beer Database! - they are all there, well probably!
Full Pint - Pub Reviews.
Random Pub Finder - For those times when you need a little help.
C.A.M.R.A. - The Campaign for Real Ale.
Passport to the Pub - a guide to British pub etiquette.
MISC:
Wikipedia definition of Pork Scratchings - The Pork Scratching definition, written For Us By Us.
Wikipedia definition of Pork Rinds - The Pork Rinds definition.
Wiktionary definition of Pork Scratchings - excellent.
Pork-Scratching.com - they put on gigs and organise them.
The Pork Scratching Diet - Weight watchers in the US have discovered a novel way to diet - by eating pork scratchings - WHATEVER!
H2G2 - h2g2 is an unconventional guide to life, the universe and everything, an encyclopaedic project where entries are written by people from all over the world, including the mighty scratching!
Pork Scratchings in parliament - Even in the lofty heights of british power, are people talking about our salty friends!
Origins of the word 'Crackling' - Some nutters having a chat about where the word came from (if its good enough to believe some bloke down the pub, then why not here on the interweb).
The Way We Ate Pub Food - A Waitrose magazine nostalgia article.
All you ever wanted to know about... - Microwavable Pork Rinds.
In defense of the pork rind -
Dolores Brand Pickled Pork Rinds - This is just plain wrong! however, but a rather humourous review! (scroll down the page, as it's in the middle)
Encarta definition - MSN more money than they know what to do with, maybe they should get some researchers? A very poor definition.
Scratchings Blog!
Madonna and child - Make up your own mind, if you think this is a sign from God!
Man walks into a pub - a most excellent pub book.
Welcome to the New Forest National Park they do have a sense of humour.
The Pork Scratching Society they dont seem to have many members, so give him a hand.
Chad's Unplanned Journey :: Wolverhampton :: The Forgotten Night Out :: This looks like a pretty good evening out in a british pub!
Icons of England Make your vote count.
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