Scratching your head wondering what snack to pig out on with your beer? Enter: The revolutionary new British snack – Mr Trotter’s Great British Pork Crackling.
Okay, so ‘pork scratching’ doesn’t seem so revolutionary, but Mr Trotter’s is produced from only British pigs, unlike nearly every other pork scratching sold in Britain which is made with Danish rind, which does, in fact, make this product remarkably innovative. Mr Trotter’s also uses a unique slow cooking process, developed by Graham Jebb and his team at RayGray snacks in the West Midlands, which has a fantastic effect on the British rind and seems to increase Mr Trotter’s signature crunch.
The idea to redefine the pork scratching category and create a new interpretation of the scratching made from 100% British pigs came from scratching fanatics and food writers, Tom Parker Bowles and Matthew Fort, with Cotswold Farmer Rupert Ponsonby. The guys teamed up with RayGray snacks after realising that they lacked the technical knowhow, and together altered the laws of the scratching, creating a new cooking method and swapping the Monosodium Glutamate for sea salt and special seasoning instead, resulting in a – yes, we’d agree, revolutionary crackling with both crunch and punch!
So, we at Blue Tomato thought, what better a candidate is there to try out this new-fangled product, than a not long reinstated (ex-vegetarian of twelve years) carnivore? Snort. And who’d have guessed, the once only broccoli-munching, tofu-chomping veggie would be such a porker! We’d have presumed the newbie had inhaled them she finished the pack so fast, had we not heard the resounding crunch for every one she consumed.
Sending her to the corner with a beer to calm down, we tried the crackling for ourselves. So much unlike the chewy, sometimes soggy, scratchings that you find in the foil packets (with the stray hairs – gag) this crackling is coated in a delicious seasoning that makes your mouth water, each one hard and crisp, yet crumbling at the bite.
This crispier, crunchier, 100% British crackling will be available in delicatessens, farm shops, garden centres and pubs from 2012, and available in Selfridges now. Cracking.
Written by Sophie Jones
Date posted: 21/11/2011
Category: News.
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