The Snaffling Pig Co Pork Crackling Advent Calendar 2024

The world's first and original pork crackling advent calendar! And this year we have doubled the amount of crackling in those flavoured packets of porky yuletide joy!

After last year's sell-out adventure our advent returns and THIS YEAR, we've made the calendar itself entirely plastic-free and fully recyclable! HURRAH!

And CHILLAX, the crackling is good, sealed and fresh until March 2025.

If you don't know what this is all about, allow us to enlighten you:

Advent calendars are great, right? Wonderfully delivering daily countdown-based treats, encouraging early morning snackage, and gleefully throwing normal eating times out of the cardboard window. But, if you're more of a savoury-loving swine, they've tended to be a piggin' letdown.

The Snaffling Pig decided to right that wrong because he’s good like that. The result is this bad boy- 39.4cm tall, 23.7cm wide and 8.8cm deep!

As you may have guessed, behind each of the windows you'll find a mini bag of awesome flavoured pork crackling. Sadly, none of them will be in the shape of a bell or a Santa. Even SP isn't that clever. But we'd like to think that what they lack in festive shape, they make up in crisp, crunchy loveliness.

There is literally a flavour (24 x 10g) for everyone and you can find out about each of our award-winning flavours below:

• Black Pepper - Our Black Pepper flavour is more subtle than some of our porky adventures, but that's its beauty. 

• Low & Slow BBQ - If you love the wonderful, smokey taste of BBQ then this one is for you. 

• Marvellous Maple - Inspired by SP's love of a pancake & syrup breakfast, Maple is our first sweeter variety and is something genuinely a bit different. With a lovely sweet/salty balance, it’s still very much suited to accompanying a pint, but we've seen it demolished alongside all sorts of drinks and at all times of day!

• Perfectly Salted - Our Perfectly Salted may not be the most flamboyant of flavours, but what it lacks in avante-garde thrills, it more than makes up for in brilliant basics: Crispy, salty awesomeness. Think of it as Team SP’s ever-present holding midfielder- others might have occasional fancier tricks and brighter boots, but this one is always the first name down on the team sheet.

• Pigs In Blankets - Our limited edition Pigs in Blankets (PiB) variety takes what we see as the best bit of a Turkey dinner, aka the porky bit, and pays homage to it the form of some rather excellent crackling, housed in one of our gift jars. On top of its lovely flavour, PiB is a particular favourite as it adds the essence of bacon-wrapped pork to a porky snack. Yup -Pig to the power of 3! 

• Salt ‘N’ Vinegar - Our Salt 'N' Vinegar crackling is a particular favourite at Snaffling Pig HQ and is almost universally loved when tried. As you may have gathered, we're big on bold flavour, so you'll be in no doubt what you're snaffling; this one is as tangy as it is moreish.    

In 2016, the judges awarded our Black Pepper and Perfectly Salted stars in the Great Taste Awards. 

In 2017, the judges awarded our Salt 'N' Vinegar and Marvellous Maple stars in the Great Taste Awards. 

In 2018, the judges awarded our Low & Slow BBQ a star in the Great Taste Awards. 

And chillax... our products are freshly sealed so they will maintain freshness and AWESOMENESS well past Christmas. Like they'd be hanging around that long anyway. As if.

INGREDIENTS & NUTRITIONAL INFO (ALLERGENS IN BOLD AND UPPERCASE)

Low & Slow BBQ

Pork Rind (75%), Pork Fat, Sunflower Oil, Antioxidant (Tertiary-Butyl Hydroquinone, Citric Acid), Salt, Flavour Enhancer (Monosodium Glutamate, Disodium 5'-ribonucleotide), Tomato Powder, Spices (paprika, cumin, coriander, cayenne), Dextrose, Acidity Regulator (Sodium Diacetate), Hydrolysed Vegetable Protein, Onion Powder, Garlic Powder, Natural Flavouring, Paprika Extract, Spice Extract.

Nutritional Information (per 100g):

• Energy: 2581kJ/621kCal

• Fat: 47.5g

• of which saturates: 16.8g

• Carbohydrate: 4.3g

• Of which Sugars: 0.3g

• Protein: 43.9g

• Salt: 1.24g

Marvellous Maple

Pork Rind (75%), Pork Fat, Sunflower Oil, Antioxidant (Tertiary-Butyl Hydroquinone, Citric Acid), Salt, Sugar, Flavour Enhancer (Monosodium Glutamate), Dextrose, Rusk (wheat flour (calcium carbonate, iron niacin, thiamine) Salt), Molasses Extract Powder, Onion Powder, Natural Flavouring, Garlic Powder, Flavouring (SOYA), Spice Extracts, Paprika Extract.

Nutritional Information (per 100g):

• Energy: 2579kJ/620kCal

• Fat: 45.6g

• of which saturates: 16.5g

• Carbohydrate: 0.5g

• Of which Sugars: 0.5g

• Protein: 51.9g

• Salt: 1.8g

Perfectly Salted

Pork Rind (75%), Pork Fat, Sunflower Oil, Antioxidant (Tertiary-Butyl Hydroquinone, Citric Acid), Salt, Hydrolysed Vegetable Protein, Dextrose, Yeast Extract.

Nutritional Information (per 100g):

• Energy: 2613kJ/629kCal

• Fat: 48.4g

• of which saturates: 18.4g

• Carbohydrate: 0.5g

• Of which Sugars: 0.5g

• Protein: 47.8g

• Salt: 1.10g

Pigs in Blankets

Pork Rind (75%), Pork Fat, Sunflower Oil, Antioxidant (Tertiary-Butyl Hydroquinone, Citric Acid), Salt, Rusk (WHEAT flour (calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamine) Salt), Yeast Extract, Flavour Enhancer (Monosodium Glutamate), Onion Powder, Hydrolysed Vegetable Protein, Sugar, Spice (white pepper), Dextrose, Acid (Citric Acid), Smoke Flavouring, Spice Extracts, Herb Extract.

Nutritional Information (per 100g):

• Energy: 2595kJ/625kCal

• Fat: 47.8g

• of which saturates: 16.7g

• Carbohydrate: 3.6g

• Of which Sugars: <0.5g

• Protein: 45.0g

• Salt: 2.40g

Black Pepper & Sea Salt

Pork Rind (75%), Pork Fat, Sunflower Oil, Antioxidant (Tertiary-Butyl Hydroquinone, Citric Acid), Sea Salt, Rusk (WHEAT flour (calcium carbonate, iron niacin, thiamine) Salt), Yeast Extract, Flavour Enhancer (Monosodium Glutamate), Spice (black pepper), Dextrose, Paprika Extract, BARLEY Malt Extract.

Nutritional Information (per 100g):

• Energy: 2521kJ/607kCal

• Fat: 46.5g

• of which saturates: 16.6g

• Carbohydrate: 1.9g

• Of which Sugars: 0.3g

• Protein: 44.5g

• Salt: 3.9g

Salt 'n' Vinegar

Pork Rind (75%), Pork Fat, Sunflower Oil, Antioxidant (Tertiary-Butyl Hydroquinone, Citric Acid), Rice Flour, Acidity Regulator (Sodium Diacetate), Potassium Chloride, Acid (Citric Acid), Salt.

Nutritional Information (per 100g):

• Energy: 2546kJ/613kCal

• Fat: 46.3g

• of which saturates: 15.6g

• Carbohydrate: 5.0g

• Of which Sugars: <0.1g

• Protein: 44.0g

• Salt: 1.8g

Storage

PORKY SNACKS: If kept air tight, our crackling should be suitably awesome up until it's best before date, which should typically be around 16 weeks from purchase, sometimes more, sometimes less.

If you dive in regularly, we'd recommend eating it up within 4 weeks - but this shouldn't be too tricky, because well, you're already diving in regularly.

As with any food product, store in a cool, dry place away from bright light and vegetarians (if it's meaty) in order to keep the swines at their best.