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In Spain, the Philippines, Panama, Colombia, Guatemala, everywhere I've ever heard the word, chicharron means "deep-fried pork skin", but the comments below and wikipedia will make me pay more attention in the future to chicharron. Especially in Bolivia, where chicharron is ribs. whaaat.

In at least Lima, chicharron means "breaded deep-fried fish strips".

I was dumbfounded yesterday when i found out.

I'm found dumb fairly often. I cannot confirm whether this is a Lima-only idiosyncrasy or if there were fish strips in Cusco that I never got to try because i was avoiding "chicharron".

I like peruvian chicharron, I'm not a huge fan of pork cracklings.

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[โ€“] bitofarambler@crazypeople.online 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Cool, i haven't made it to Mexico yet. Yucatan is on the list.

Was the skin fried or roasted?

[โ€“] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

It seems like it was fried and then cooked in some kind of green salsa to soften it up.