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Your question is very timely, as the Yahoo! cafeteria has recently added these mysterious porcine edibles to our lunch menu. Now let's see if we can learn a little bit more about these tasty treats... A Yahoo! search on "pork rinds" yielded two promising results: Evans Food Products and the Uncle Josh Bait Company. As it turns out, Evans Food Products is "one of the leading pork rind producers in the United States. If you¿ve ever eaten a pork rind, chances are it was made by us!" That means you, Summer. A quick scan of the site led us to some tantalizing quotes: "frying procedures for pork rind pellets," "pigskin availability is a lot better here in Chicago," and "these have zero carbohydrates!"
When all was said and done, here's what we found: Pork rinds are deep-fried chunks of pork skin. According to Webster's Dictionary, a rind has two major definitions: 1. the bark of a tree 2 : a usually hard or tough outer layer. We're assuming that the rind as it relates to deep-fried pork products is simply the skin, which just happens to be exceptionally tough. Don't trust us? Pet a pig. One last bacon-bit of advice: If you're looking to corner the pork-rind e-commerce market, we noticed that www.porkrind.com is still available...
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