Welcome to the Blogging from A to Z Challenge! Each day in April (except Sundays) I’ll be posting about unusual and exotic foods.
Shout out to my friend Steve from Philly, who tried to get me to eat scrapple a few years ago. I read the ingredients on the package, even though he implored me not to (“Just eat it!”).
Scrapple, also known by the Pennsylvania Dutch name of ‘panhaas,’ is basically pork scraps mixed with cornmeal and/or flour and spices. The mush is formed into a loaf, and slices from that loaf are fried in a pan. Traditionally, the scraps of meat that weren’t sold went into the scrapple, to avoid waste. It’s best known in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
Anyway, I did look at the ingredients on the package of scrapple. Here they are, from the Original Rapa Scrapple (since 1926):
- Pork stock
- Pork livers
- Pork fat
- Pork snouts
- Corn meal
- Pork hearts
- Wheat flour
- Salt
- Spices
Now it’s your turn. Would you eat Scrapple?
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I would eat it. Donna is right. Don’t read the ingredients and let your taste buds do the work.
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Definitely not after reading the label but maybe if I’d tasted it before I read the ingredient list. Doesn’t sound appealing now though. Weekends In Maine
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I’d probably try it if the host served it. I doubt I would ever serve it. I haven’t even heard of it until now. I am familiar with Spam. My parents gave it to us often when we were kids. They stopped buying it at some point, maybe when finances improved.
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BTW……the sunny-side eggs look delicious!
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Do I need a note from my Doctor before I try this?
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True confession time. I have eaten Scrapple more than once!! It’s worse than Spam. it’s like eating cooked grease. It needed lots of seasonings too. I wouldn’t recommend it for cardiac patients! lol
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Oh! Yikes.
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Yes, I would try it. I don’t look at the ingredients in a hot dog or deli meat either for that reason and yet I love them.
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Good point, Donna!
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Everything is good on pork! That’s what we say in French country, do you too?
S is for Scherenschnitte
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I like pork, but I’ve never tried Scrapple.
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No,I’m a vegetarian.
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No. I would not try it. But I am familiar with it because one of my former employees would talk about how much she loved it.
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It might taste all right. The fat part turns me off a bit but I’d give it a go.
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