# Kitty likes chicharrónes **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 20, 2011, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kitty-likes-chicharrones/600287 "2011-10-20T20:04:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kitty-likes-chicharrones/600287/1 "2011-10-20T20:04:36Z")
(I don’t have any recent pics of the cat, but I’ve posted what I have elsewhere, earlier.) Roomie’s cat is weird. He doesn’t like ‘people food’. He doesn’t even care for tuna. He’ll have a taste of smokes salmon, but he won’t just chow down on it. So it’s getting around lunchtime, and I get a big mug of tomato soup and some chicharrónes (the crunchy kind, without meat) I got from the Mexican market. Why not? Cat wants food. I broke off a little piece and put it in his bowl. _crunchcrunchcrunch_ Hm… Did a little work, sipped on my soup, snacked on the ol’ pig skins. Cat was hanging out by the back door. I got his attention and threw a little piece of chicharrón at him. _crunchcrunchcrunch_ I told roomie, and she said, ‘Oh, dear…’ She already thinks I spoil her cat. ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kitty-likes-chicharrones/600287/2 "2011-10-20T20:12:15Z")
I wouldn’t give him those, or at least not more than a bite or two every few days. Fatty snacks are no better for kitteh than they are for you, and he’s a _lot_ smaller than you are. Also, that kind of stuff can give cats some rip-roaring diarrhea that smells like the fires of Hell crossed with the primordial ooze crossed with old gym socks. Roomie will _not_ thank you if that happens. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kitty-likes-chicharrones/600287/3 "2011-10-20T20:26:59Z")
No, I know that cats need cat food. He only got two small pieces about the size of my thumbnail. I’ll spoil him with petting, but we won’t have begging. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kitty-likes-chicharrones/600287/4 "2011-10-20T21:00:03Z")
Okay, what are chicharrónes? I know a word similar to that in Esperanto, but it means “chaperone”… ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kitty-likes-chicharrones/600287/5 "2011-10-20T21:46:24Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Okay, what are chicharrónes? I know a word similar to that in Esperanto, but it means “chaperone”… Fried pork rinds (essentially, pig skin fried until it’s light and fluffy and crispy). Damn good, in fact, kinda like piggy potato chips; I’m craving some now. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kitty-likes-chicharrones/600287/6 "2011-10-20T21:48:02Z")
[Chicharones](http://lmgtfy.com/?q=chicharrones). Joe ---
**Author:** ![pakalolo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/57b2e6/32.png) [@pakalolo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pakalolo)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kitty-likes-chicharrones/600287/7 "2011-10-20T22:03:00Z")
My cat gets really excited about ear wax. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kitty-likes-chicharrones/600287/8 "2011-10-20T22:06:29Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > Fried pork rinds (essentially, pig skin fried until it’s light and fluffy and crispy). Damn good, in fact, kinda like piggy potato chips; I’m craving some now. It’s also the origin of Richard Marin’s nickname. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2011, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kitty-likes-chicharrones/600287/9 "2011-10-20T23:36:36Z")
Try feeding him nori (the seaweed for sushi). One of my cats will go wild for it, two of my sister’s cats liked it. And that’s no worse than grass for them. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kitty-likes-chicharrones/600287/10 "2011-10-21T02:46:48Z")
I keep looking at the nori in the cupboard, and thinking I need to make some SPAM musubi. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kitty-likes-chicharrones/600287/11 "2011-10-21T02:54:44Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I keep looking at the nori in the cupboard, and thinking I need to make some SPAM musubi. If you don’t do _something_ with that seaweed, it’s gonna think you’re ignori it. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/59ef9b/32.png) [@FlyingRat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRat)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2011, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kitty-likes-chicharrones/600287/12 "2011-10-21T03:29:32Z")
Mmm, chicharrónes. Kitty has good taste. You know, I don’t think I’ve ever had the Mexican kind, but in Northern Thailand they are super-fond of their deep-fried pork skin (they make yummy dips for it, including a kind of pork-and-tomato sauce, like this: [Authentic Thai Recipes | ThaiCookingHouse](http://thaicookinghouse.com/recipes.php?cat=nam_prik&recipe=nam_prik_ong)). You’d see people carrying giant bags of them onto the plane back to Bangkok. I never saw any Siamese kitties enjoying them, but now I’m wishing I had given some to the Three Stooges (the three boy cats that hung out around the lobby of our apartment building). They luuuurved them some dried bonito flakes, I’m betting they would have gone for\* kaeb moo\* too.