[Sca-cooks] pork chips was: Okay, it's "Very Stupid Question" time...

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Apr 18, 2008, at 12:40 PM, elisabetta at klotz.org wrote:

> Just because someone eats regional Southern food, doesn't mean they  
> can't
> spell. It's not a typo, but a fried pork patty.
>
> Pork Chips:
> http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2007/08/pork-chips-you-cant-eat-just-o.html


Of course. This is Number Three of the many hits on Google when you  
enter "pork chips" as individual words. But when you enter the phrase  
in quotes, you still get several thousand hits, most of which are  
still recipes for pork chops with typos (or possibly some humorous  
nickname) in the title, and the above is still Hit Number Three.

Not too many are references to pork rinds, cracklin's, chicharrones,  
or other fried pork-rind-ey product, oddly enough.

I had assumed that what our telekinetic friend was eating was a meat- 
based, entree-type dish of cooked pork, but never having encountered  
this name before, there was some question, and one can only plug in  
the data one has, after all. I had further assumed, based on he  
majority of the other chips one tends to find on a dinner table, that  
these were fried, possibly breaded or otherwise coated, disks or  
fingers of pork, possibly ground, possibly not. Beyond that was petty  
much what I was hoping to learn.

It may come down to everybody thinking that what they were brought up  
eating is in some range from "normal" to "universal", and that Food X  
is part of a regional cuisine that other people in the region may be  
unaware of. In the end, it may just be the numerical stats that tell  
the true tale.

Thanks for the info!

Adamantius




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