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Article: Pork rinds as health food?
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 26, 2000
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Eating pork rinds is a snack adventure.
Having grown up in the South, munching rinds and sipping cold
Pepsi, I can admit to these cravings. Many Midwesterners-who
evidently don't care what goes into hot dogs-are squeamish about
eating fried pork skins. Their loss. My willpower evaporates when I'm
near pork rinds. To write about them, I stashed a bag or two in my
desk. That "research" didn't last long. This weakness is the reason I
almost never buy pork rinds.
But when someone from Rudolph Foods-the world's largest pork rind
producer-near Lima, Ohio, wrote to tell me there was new, encouraging
nutritional research, I was ready to rush the rind aisle.
Pork rinds have gotten a sales boost the ...