Scrapple and other weird eating ;)

Scrapple is likely in your grocery store, but you just pass it over. Look in the bacon section. The bacon may be responsible for your selective scrapple blindness. Scrapple is all the pork you can’t sell in it’s original form, but fried up crispy it’s tasty with some over medium eggs. Amish or no, meat processors are famous for not wasting edible meatstuffs …hotdogs, bologna, liverwurst, and really all sausage …lest we forget head cheese, tripe, pickled pigs feet, and haggis …and chicken feet

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Added to the list of things I wished I hadn’t googled :nauseated_face::laughing:

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Originally from Maryland but spent lot of time in York County Pa. Scrapple is big in Maryland too. I myself am not a fan but Scrapple was definitely at the breakfast table when I was growing up.

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It’s not available locally here! It’s more of an east coast thing. It’s alright, though! I’ll just order a 6 lb supply and then have a lifetime supply of scrapple! :joy:

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I did eat it when i was a kid. Then my uncle explained to me that “Scrapple ain’t nothing but lips and assholes!” Never ate it again!

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You can freeze it. I worked at a restaurant that sold as a menu item and when it came it it was frozen.

If you’re storing nicotine in your freezer just wrap it in foil and mark it “Scrapple” …it’ll be safe :wink:

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In the south we say “we eat everything but the squeal”.

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Bodarc, this is exactly how my grandma made it for me, fried crispy then folded into eggs. That ol’ red white and blue square package. :wink:

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Scrapple is nasty. I’ll eat insects and pig intestine along with the tongue of anything. But scrapple, bleh. Blood sausage, cubed blood, tripe… Im down with it all.

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Ooooh… tripe. There’s something I haven’t had in forever.

Off to google recipes for tripe! I’m sure the whole family will love it!!

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Are those ants? Cuz that’s just wrong. Unless your starving then it’s ok. Every thing is ok if your starving!

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They call them ants, but they are like wasps without stingers, found in Mango trees in Cambodia. The lower pic is a salad made with their pupae. Best salad ever, those are julienned jalapenos.

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No thank you.

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Not eating anything with pupae!

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My ex from PA made me have scrapple in a local restaurant when i was there in 2000. The restaurant was in original 1960s or 70s style. Just like a funny fried meat loaf. I don’t think it tasted bad but it is of course a way to dispose of all the unwanted meat. But in the Bavarian hinterlands we eat a thing called “slaughter plate” which has a little bit of everything, warm liver sausage, black pudding and all kinds of mystery meat. And Sauerkraut of course. Hmmmmm…

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I had no idea it is popular in the South! Thanks for the info!

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I am specifically speaking of Pennsylvania Dutch, which, I assume, is quite different than being Dutch. But I am not sure if they are directly Dutch in heritage, or just a name that was given to them or adopted by them. Weird things like that do happen here! Lol! The PA Dutch are largely Mennonite and Amish, and well known for their homemade, very unhealthy, USUALLY delicious recipes! :blush:

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The Sauerkraut sounds good! Lol!

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Older people in the area always tried to talk to me in Pennsylvania dutch.when they heard that I was from Germany. Only a few words sounded familiar though.

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I took German in High School. And have forgotten a vast majority of it, but I can recognize a few of the words they use as well. It’s a weird combination of German and other languages, some English.

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