Scratchings are a snack: small pieces of pig’s skin cooked in hot fat until they go hard and crunchy, then eaten cold. In Britain people almost always say pork scratchings — a bag in a pub, salty, a bit greasy, noisy to chew.

Scratchings炸豬皮（scratchings） are a snack是一種零食：small pieces of pig's skin一小片一小片的豬皮 cooked in hot fat用熱油炸過，until they go hard and crunchy直到變硬變酥脆，then eaten cold放涼之後吃。In Britain在英國，people almost always say pork scratchings大家幾乎都說pork scratchings——a bag in a pub一包在酒吧買的，salty, a bit greasy鹹鹹的、有點油，noisy to chew嚼起來聲音很大。

They are not a hot dish and not a meal; you eat them with your fingers. Speech likes the plural: you buy scratchings, not one scratching.

They are not a hot dish and not a meal這不是熱的菜，也不是一頓正餐；you eat them with your fingers你會用手指拿來吃。Speech likes the plural口語習慣用複數：you buy scratchings你會說買scratchings，not one scratching而不是一個scratching。

In the United States a close snack is pork rinds, which are often lighter and more puffed; British scratchings are usually thicker and chewier.

In the United States在美國，a close snack is pork rinds類似的零食叫pork rinds，which are often lighter and more puffed通常比較輕、比較蓬鬆；British scratchings are usually thicker and chewier英式scratchings則通常比較厚、比較有嚼勁。

Though actually, scratchings can also mean the little marks left when something is scratched — a cat’s scratchings on a chair — but on a snack shelf it is the pig-skin food.

Though actually不過其實，scratchings can also meanscratchings也可以指 the little marks left when something is scratched東西被抓過後留下的小痕跡——a cat's scratchings on a chair貓在椅子上留下的抓痕，but on a snack shelf但在零食架上，it is the pig-skin food指的就是這種豬皮零食。