Is that like pork scratchings? You can get them in pubs the UK. I think they’re deep-fried: really hard / crunchy and salty.
Pig feet can be an ingredient in Menudo.
Jack Aubrey’s always eating soused hog’s face, which I believe is the head with the skull carefully removed. Which makes it far, far creepier, IMHO. Of course, they’re always eating oxtail soup in wooden navy adventure books, too, not to mention rats.
My first encounter with this was in Guatemala, when I was served a bowl of soup with the foot still in it. A bit of a shock, if you’re not expecting it.
Ditto on the neckbones for soup stock. Also oxtail.
If I had a bunch of weird animal parts, I’d make a Frankencow!!
MUH-OOOOOOO!
It’s alive!!!
My dad and my grandma used to eat all kinds of weird animal bits. Like souse (kind of like a jello salad with whatever was leftover after they butchered the pig-I’m afraid to ask what was really in there). We had pickled beef tongue on sandwiches. Ick. We ate liver often (pan-fried).
I almost ate a chicken foot one time. It was a fantastic dim sum buffet, but the labels were mostly in Chinese, so I didn’t know what it was. Then I figured it out, and it was just weird that I had a chicken foot on my plate, and there was no way I could eat it. The same thing happened with pig’s feet at a Russian restaurant. I like trying new things, but pig’s feet aren’t on the list of things that sound like good food.
Don’t forget pickled pig lips! That’s good eatin’!