Pork rind is the culinary term for the skin of a pig. It can be used in many different ways. It can be rendered, fried in fat, or roasted to produce a kind of pork cracklings or scratchings; these are served in small pieces as a snack or side dish. The frying renders much of the fat, making it much smaller.

What does crackle mean in slang?

2 : craze sense intransitive 2. transitive verb. : to crush or crack with snapping noises.

What crackling means?

noun. the making of slight cracking sounds rapidly repeated. the crisp browned skin or rind of roast pork. Usually cracklings. Southern U.S. the crisp residue left when fat, especially hog or chicken fat, is rendered.