PORK ALERT

T’other day I had a pre-prandial bag of pork crackling, made by Snak Shed.  This was by no means the first time.  The package looked like this (no, I have no idea why it’s cracklings rather than crackling).

Looked like this when it was open:

Then I ended the meal with Hartley’s blackcurrant jelly – package looked like this - so glad it was fat-free:

And it looked like this once I’d made it all sophisticated with tinned mandarin oranges and lemon juice and put it in a couple of opium-themed glasses:

But here’s a thing.  The number one ingredient in the pork scratching, you’ll be unsurprised to learn, was pork rind.

But what was the number five ingredient in the jelly, after the glucose and fructose, sugar and water? Yes, guessed right – it was pig – actually pork gelatin.  The beast that keeps on giving.