On 2013-04-22 19:35:20 +0000, notbob said:

> I couldn't believe it. I went to the sprmkt (kroger) to buy some beef
> for p/c beef bourguignon. I wanted to pick up some pork rinds
> (chicarones).

Now are you talking about real chicharones, a big slab of pork skin
which you can do with as you please. Or are you talking about a
potato-chip like bags of mildly flavored pork puffs?

I've never seen the real-deal chicharones except in my local Mexican
supermarkets.

> Sure wish I could
> find some authentic Mexican chicarones, the kind that can break teeth
> by the row and come in bags the size of a jes-learned-to-walk child.
> Dripping with Chalula. Yum!

I guess you were talking about the pork puffs.

I had never bought a big chunk of chicarones, frankly I was scared of
the stuff. I bought some about 3 years ago before we hosted a part. I
whittled it up in finger-sized pieces and through it in a bowl by where
I was bartending as guests arrived. They guys went into a *****ing
frenzy* over the stuff, the equivalent of what I see in dogs as "milk
bone hysteria". They just kept munching, with expletives, and the
occasional aside that they were trimming days off their
life-expectancy. The women (bless them all!) and the vegetarians stood
off at a distance giving us the stink-eye.

We're hosting another party in a couple of weeks and I thought I'd repeat it.

It is what I consider about the most decadent food there is.

Goes great with a martini, or beer, or cab or whatever€¦