pork scratchings

British  

plural noun

1. small pieces of crisply cooked pork crackling, eaten cold as an appetizer with drinks

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Example Sentences

Tayto Group Ltd operates from six sites across the UK manufacturing a range of products including pork scratchings, crisps and popcorn.

From BBC • Aug. 25, 2021

The tension going up on the train, the pre-game pint and pork scratchings, the frantic texts on finding out the team, the game itself and the post-match analysis during the two-hour journey home.

From The Guardian • Jun. 5, 2020

Those fiddly boxes and unusual shapes mean they can be difficult and expensive to make, something pork scratchings firm Snaffling Pig found to its cost when it launched its first calendar last year.

From BBC • Nov. 24, 2017

“A dead hedgehog is the shape of hedgehog, then the shape of green scent, then the shape of tripe, then the shape of sweet, then the shape of pork scratchings, then the shape of beetle.”

From The New Yorker • May 23, 2016

Where were you when I was scarfing six bags of pork scratchings in one sitting just to make a point?

From The Guardian • Jul. 16, 2014