Korean Kimchi BBQ, Sea Salt & Cracked Black Pepper, and Pineapple Ancho Chile are trendy tastes, and it wouldn’t be a surprise to see them featured in beef jerky or potato chips. Those flavors are some of the new varieties of Southern Recipe Small Batch pork rinds — a real departure for a popular snack that hasn’t seen much change.
Southern Recipe Small Batch, a division of Rudolph Foods, is taking the pork rind where it has never ventured. Pork skin has been considered a delicacy for thousands of years, and the pork rind has been a favorite snack, particularly in the South, for decades. While other areas of the snack food world have chased bold new flavors, pork rinds have stayed largely the same. Until now.