In my opinion, the problem we now have with replicating the taste we remember from childhood has to do with the dry Purina-fed, caged pigs in souless mass-production agribusinesses that supply our chain groceries.
One wishes that the fatty, greasy pork and cracklings of our childhood were still commonly available (from fatty, fatty pigs fed on naturally organic farm slop). If you have a local butcher who has contacts at local farms (esp. Amish) where pigs can wander and wallow, you will pay plenty; but you will savor the difference.
RECIPE:
I have a friend whose son raises pigs the old fashioned way. Those are great chops when we get them!
Yes, I was raised in rural Mississippi in the 50’s and 60’s.
Pork was totally different then that what they sell now, colorless, tasteless and practically fatless now...................
I am one of those non-liberal veggieweenies!
I took that recipe, now I have to find an occasion to make it! Thanks very much...:)