chicharron

From Spanish chicharrón.

chicharron (countable and uncountable, plural chicharrons or chicharrones)

1. A Spanish dish made from fried pork.
2. A pork rind; pork scratching.
   • 2007 December 13, Monica Davey, “Immigration, and Its Politics, Shake Rural Iowa”, in New York Times‎:

     Now the shelves are also packed with Mexican spices, tostadas, chicharrones, the walls covered in signs in Spanish for Mary Kay cosmetics, baby sitters and Senator Barack Obama.

Borrowed from Spanish chicharrón.

chicharron m (plural chicharrons)

1. chicharron (a Spanish dish)
   • 2015 September 25, “Le poulet au cacao de Carina Soto Velasquez Tsou”, in Le Monde‎:

     Ils avaient préparé un mole noir, avec un poulet de leur ferme, une sauce au cacao et piments grillés au soleil, du riz rouge bien parfumé, de la poitrine de porc frite qu’on appelle « chicharron ».

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2. pork rinds, pork scratchings