Packet
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Rating |
Scratching
Comments |
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7
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Bobby's Pork Crackles 50g,
Bromsgrove:
Traditional style, without the huge ones. Good flavour |
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7
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Bobby's Pork Crackles 50g,
Bromsgrove:
Updated packet. And price. But still good. Light, crisp and
dry.
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8
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Mr P's Pork Scratchings
70g, Walsall:
Crispy, near-traditional style. Good flavour and perfectly
seasoned, with pieces in a variety of sizes and textures. Available on-line.
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8
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Rick's Quality Pork
Scratchings 85g, Newark, Nottinghamshire:
Traditional
style, crispy, perfect seasoning. They're very light and crispy,
rather than hard, with a good chunks of meat on a few.
Excellent. Available via e-bay seller rick11254.
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6
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Rick's Foods Custom-Salted
Bag, Newark, Nottinghamshire:
Traditional style as above with good flavour and a solid whack of
seasoning to give a very salty taste. These are hand-packed for a
few customers who like them very salty - they should be very satisfied,
though most people will find the salt excessive and should stick with
Rick's normal ones.
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7
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Yorkshire Produce:
A large clear plastic bag of traditional
style scratchings from ebay supplier yorkshire_produce.
A
good
selection
of
sizes,
shapes
and
types,
with a few hard ones and a
few with decent chunks of meat. Perfectly seasoned.
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7
|
Freshers Foods Top Notch
Pork Scratchings 75g, Wigan:
Traditional style with good flavour, though less fatty and a bit
lighter than the usual. |
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5
|
Freshers Foods Butchers
Gold
Label:
Small traditional style with good flavour. |
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6
|
Freshers Foods Pub Original
Scratchings 50g:
Good, light, traditional style.
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6
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Freshers Foods Pub Original
Pork Crunch
50g:
Crunch style, but a bit more towards the traditional than most
crunches. Very good with a pint of mild. |
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5
|
KP Pork Scratchings:
Miniature traditional style. Meagre portion, where having one
over-cooked, inedible one makes a big in-road into their enjoyment.
Having said that, I've had
a few good packets where the taste has been pretty good, so I've edged
the mark up from the original '4'. |
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5
|
Red Mill Mr Porky Pork
Scratchings, Wednesbury, West
Midlands:
Pretty good traditional style |
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7
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Red Mill Mr Porky Pork
Crunch, Wednesbury, West
Midlands:
Good UK crunch style; nicely seasoned.
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6
|
Red Mill Pork Crackles,
Wednesbury, West
Midlands:
Nearly traditional style, usually containing some pieces that have huge
air bubbles in them, but otherwise quite reasonable-tasting.
Available in decent packs or smaller-portion multi-packs.
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7
|
Green Top Golden Pork
Crunch 30g,
Tamworth, Staffs:
Crunchy, puffy style, seasoning strong without being over salty. |
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6
|
Green Top Hot & Spicey
Pork
Crunch 30g, Tamworth,
Staffs:
Crunchy, puffy style, similar packaging, but deceptively hot seasoning
(curry powder, hot red pepper, cumin & spice extracts added). Great
for a change. |
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5
|
Green Top Original Pork
Scratchings 20g, Tamworth,
Staffs:
Tiny bag (available in multi-pack
of 6), with small, but perfectly formed snack-portion of miniature
traditional scratchings.
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7
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Green Top Original Pork
Scratchings 80g, Tamworth,
Staffs:
Full-sized portion bag of good traditional scratchings.
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7
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Ms Traditional Pork
Scratchings 50g, Wolverhampton:
Midland Snacks' bag of good traditional scratchings. These are often
sold in bulk for re-packaging.
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7
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Q Pork Crackling 71g,
Walsall:
Good traditional scratchings.
|
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7
|
Barry Bosters Pork
Scratchings
85g:
Excellent traditional pub scratchings in a simple bag |
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7
|
Sam Wooldridge, butcher,
Oldbury
West Midlands :
Excellent traditional pub scratchings in a simple bag. Not made by his
shop (possibly by Midland Snacks), but brought in in huge sacks.
Unfortunately, he never had any spare when I visited and a recent visit
found that the shop had closed down. |
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7
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Walter Smith, butcher,
West Bromwich:
Traditional scratchings in a plain plastic bag. Always a big pile of
them on the counter in the butcher's shop. |
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7
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Morrisons Spicy Pork Crunch
35g:
Somewhere between traditional and crunch styles in texture. Dry
and crispy with a deceptive kick to the spice. Curry-like, but
definitely hotter after a few seconds of lulling you into a false sense
of security.
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6
|
Morrisons Pork Crunch 35g:
Somewhere
between traditional and crunch styles in texture, though more towards
the crunch. Dry, crispy and pleasantly seasoned.
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5
|
Big D Pork Scratchings 20g,
Liverpool:
Usefully available in some London pubs, but a tiny pack containing
miniature traditional scratchings. There is a pleasantly odd soft
texture to some of them and they are tastefully seasoned.
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6
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RayGray Snacks Pork
Scratchings 100g, Staffordshire:
Heavy, well-seasoned, crunchy traditional style in a simple plastic bag. |
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6
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Halifax Pie Company,
Halifax:
Very crunchy traditional style in a sandwich bag from loose bulk supply. |
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6
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Jay's Pork Scratchings 35g,
Halesowen,
West Midlands:
Clear labelled plastic bag. Crunchy, but not rock hard, with good soft
layer. Mild taste. |
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6
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Jay's Tasty Pork Crunch,
Halesowen,
West Midlands:
Clear labelled plastic bag. Crunchy, but not rock hard, with good soft
layer. Mild taste. |
|
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JTS Pork Crunch 35g,
Cheddar, Somerset:
I really can't remember what these were like or when I had them, but
I'd left one in the bag to photograph.
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5
|
Sohi Ltd Pork Scratchings
85g, Walsall:
I remember these as being a bit greasy, but otherwise hard, crunchy,
traditional style pork scratchings. From the address, the appear
to be packaged at the same place as G. Simmons products.
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7
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G. Simmons & Sons Pork
Crunch 30g, Walsall:
Nicely seasoned crunch. Reasonably uniform pieces of a decent
size: large enough to dip, but not requiring breaking into pieces to
eat.
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5
|
RTP Porky Pork Crunch,
Birmingham:
Plain seasoned pork crunch.
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6
|
RTP Original Black Country
Pork Scratchings, Birmingham:
Traditional Scratchings, nicely seasoned.
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5
|
RTP Original Black Country
Pork Scratchings 85g, Birmingham:
Old style packaging in a clear bag.
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6
|
KVE Tasty Pork Scratchings,
Tipton:
Small, white plastic bag. Very crunchy, usually small, crispy pieces
but some
interesting wafer-like strips of thin, crispy skin that reminded me of
the crackling from roast baby suckling pig, a Spanish speciality.
It's thinner than British roast pork crackling. |
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KVE Traditional Butchers
Pork Scratchings 50g,
Tipton:
Good, traditional pork scratchings.
|
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6
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BN Finest Pork Crunch 42g,
Tipton:
White plastic bag. A bit dusty towards the end, as only to be expected
with pork crunch, but otherwise, decently seasoned and crunchy. |
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4
|
Tavern Snacks 30g, London:
Small bag of standard light traditional scratchings. |
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Eley's of Ironbridge Pork
Scratchings, Ironbridge:
Awaiting review from friend who purchased them
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Shakey's Traditional Black
Country Pork Scratchings, Portland:
Awaiting review from friend who purchased them
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Bondys Traditional Pork
Scratchings 100g, Telford:
Awaiting review from friend who purchased them
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Uncle Alberts Scratchings
56g, Barnsley:
Awaiting review from friend who purchased them
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Westones Scratchings 35g,
Telford:
Awaiting review
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6
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TJ Snacks, Castle Bromwich,
Birmingham:
White/red plastic bag. Big puffy, crispy strips. Pleasantly salty. |
No Image
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5
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F J Tye & Sons,
Wolverhampton:
Clear, labelled plastic bag, good ingredients listed. Crunchy, with
good fatty layer, but an odd fishy aftertaste.
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Packet
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Rating |
Scratching
Comments |
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5
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Gregy's Special Pork
Chicharon, Philippines:
Clear plastic bag with a stick-on label, puffy, with mild seasoning.
Like porky prawn crackers. OK, not Europe, but 'Rest of World'.
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5
|
Sanzé Couratos 50g,
Portugal:
The
same as the Spanish crunch, which is hardly surprising, since it seems
to be made in Spain and packaged for the Portugese market.
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6
|
El Gallo Rojo Cortezas de
Cerdo 90g,
Spain:
Big bag of puffy crunch. Just enough flavour to eat alone and
another good dipper, though a bit powder towards the end.
|
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5
|
Paquita Cortezas de Cerdo
100g,
Spain:
Tall plastic bag of small, puffy crunch. Little
seasoning and little flavour.
|
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7
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Marisa Cortezas de Cerdo,
Spain:
Big,
tall plastic bag of puffy crunch in a brown paper bag. Little
seasoning, but enough flavour to eat on their own. There are some
huge
curly ones and some smaller ones, so a variety of sizes that make them
great with dips of all sorts.
|
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4
|
Cortezas Arte Fritas de
Sonia,
Spain:
Big bag of small and puffy crunch with little seasoning |
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4
|
Churri Chicharritos 125g,
Spain:
Crunchy, drier than the traditional British (less fatty), so a bit
puffy with little seasoning |
|
5
|
Freiduría TAS
Cortezas 120g, Spain:
Chunky-sized puffed cortezas in curled strips.
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5
|
Espada Cortezas 200g, Spain:
Small, neat, puffy-style. Subtle flavour and a
tendency
to explode dust up the back of the throat, rather like thick Quavers.
200g of very light crunchy pieces makes for a very big bag!
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Gammedags Slagter
Flaeskesvaer, Denmark:
No review, just the photo from a friend.
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Kims Gammedags Flaeskesvaer, Denmark:
No review, just the photo from a friend.
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Packet
|
Rating |
Scratching
Comments |
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6
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Rolets Fried Pork Rinds
32g, USA:
US-style pork rinds, similar to pork crunch. |
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7
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Mac's Red Hot Fried Pork
Rinds 142g, USA:
US-style pork rinds, similar to pork crunch, in a huge bag, with a lot
of hot spices. |
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6
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Mac's Original Fried Pork
Rinds 142g, USA:
US-style pork rinds, similar to pork crunch, in a huge bag. |
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6
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Baken-ets Hot 'n' Spiceyl
Fried Pork Skins 60g, USA:
US-style pork rinds, similar to pork crunch, with hot spices. Compare
the size of this bag againt the biro, then do a double take against the
size of the Mac's bags!
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