The Express & Star visit pork scratchings company G Simmons and Sons for Black Country Day.

The Express & Star visit pork scratchings company G Simmons and Sons, Bloxwich for Black Country Day.

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00:00Hello, I'm James McNeurovich and I'm here at G. Simmons and Sons. It's one of the best,

00:05if not the best, pork scratching factories and producers in the country. They make a

00:10range of different flavours. The main article is this, which is the G. Simmons pork scratching.

00:15They also do pork crunch and many other products besides that. I'm here with Tom Simmons, who

00:21is the head cook. He's the third generation of people working here and we've been talking

00:27about the history of this place, about what makes it special. For you, what is it about

00:31this place that is special and is so quintessentially black country? Like I say, people grow up

00:37with pork scratchings. We've been doing it for 50 years. It's three generations. When

00:41you think of scratchings, you think of the black country. It's a traditional snack from

00:48around here. There is something about Simmons and Sons that is so, I suppose, synonymous

00:52with this region as well. Yes, definitely. If you think of scratchings and you think

00:58of the black country, you've got to think of Simmons. Well, absolutely. You can see that

01:02right there, that lovely piece of pork, well seasoned. So, cheers. Oh, I've got a big one.

01:11Absolutely wonderful. Happy Black Country Day. This is the Naga Jolokia flavoured pork

01:22scratchings. It says very hot. Let's see what happens. This is a slow build, isn't it? Yeah,

01:41yeah, I can feel it building. That's all right, actually. That's hot, but that's not... Actually,

01:47hang on. Then you get the second wave and suddenly you go, ooh, okay. Yeah, that's actually

01:52quite nice, to be fair. Buy some of these. Happy Black Country Day.