Hands up if you love a roast dinner!
My favourite would definitely be lamb, but I am also partial to chicken, pork and beef.
So recently when the hubster and I stopped for a meal at a food court, we both opted for the roast of the day.
Pork was on offer, and we all know what the best bit is … the crackling! Sitting beside the joint we could clearly see that crispy, crunchy, crackling …. mmmmm crackling. Or even, glglggglll as Homer Simpson would say:
But when our meals were brought out, although they were very tasty and satisfying, there was NO crackling to be seen.
We were so hungry we started tucking in, but after a few minutes, the hubster went up to the counter to ask for some pork crackling.
Can you buy pork crackling separately?
We were completely mystified and bemused by the response:
“Sorry, we don’t sell pork crackling separately”.
Of course he then explained that we’d had the roast meal, but it had been sadly lacking in crackly goodness – and so we got our crispy crackling.
Although this is a happy ending to our story, it does beg the important question:
If they don’t serve their roast meals with crackling, AND they don’t sell it separately – then what the fudge (as my friend Pinky Poinker would say) do they actually do with it?!
- Throw it out at the end of the day? (Heaven forbid!)
- Use it as a back scratcher?
- Massage the fat onto their faces as a revolutionary new beauty treatment?
- Throw it for fun (like a frisbee)?
More likely the workers take it home at the end of the day and scoff it all themselves …
Can you help me to solve the mysterious case of the missing pork crackling? What do you think they do with it?!