Squeal! Scrapple gets its props
The Daily Meal names the dish to the list of "18 American Foods You Have to Travel For."
Squeal! Scrapple gets its props
Michael Klein, Philly.com
Scrapple - that Pennsylvania Dutch-rooted porcine delicacy that even adherents will admit is made from "everything but the oink" - has made The Daily Meal's list of "18 American Foods You Have to Travel For."
"A fried slice of mashed-together pig parts might not sound like your everyday breakfast item, but it is much loved in Pennsylvania Dutch country. Scrapple is traditionally made with a handful of pork scraps mixed with cornmeal or flour and spices, and pan-fried — for breakfast or just about any other time. Newcomers to scrapple might not find it in their best interest to ask exactly what the 'pork scraps' are."
The Daily Meal editors identified foods that "are so tied to a place that trying to re-create them or generate a passion behind them anywhere else would be a fool’s errand."
Also on the list are Kolaches (the filled pastries from Texas Hill Country); bacon-wrapped Sonoran Hot Dog (Tucson, Ariz.); cornmeal-gruel Jonnycakes (Rhode Island); the stuffed bread pockets known as Runzas (Lincoln, Neb.); the pork/beef sausages called Half-Smokes (Washington D.C.); Gilroy Garlic Fries (from San Francisco's AT&T Park); whoopie pies (Maine); Rocky Mountain Oysters (Colorado); Hoosier Pie (Indiana); Cheese Curds (Wisconsin); the Spam/egg/gravy-topped burger known as a Loco Moco (Hawaii); Cincinnati Chili (Ohio); Frogmore Stew (South Carolina); Fry Bread (Arizona); Pasties (Upper Michigan); the stew called Burgoo (Kentucky); and the casserole called Hotdish (Minnesota).
If you want a great sampling of Pennsylvania specialties (scrapple, too), visit Sunday, April 1's inaugural Philly Farm and Food Fest at the Pennsylvania Convention Center Annex.
Just learned that the Pennsylvania Dairy Princess- one Gabrielle Elizabeth Murphy of Airville, York County - will be on hand.
Stop already...It is a health risk to eat this garbage...Yes it tastes good with syrup but it is flat out a bad thing to eat...A MickeyD geasey Burger and fres is healthier than scrapple.....— nuggett- cheesesteaks are bad for you too. Are you gonna tell people to stop eating them?— palmyra21
- Uh, nugget, the primary ingredient in scrapple is oats, with the pork product making up a small percentage. And so no, a greasy burger is not better unless it is predominately made of oats.— CiceroSpuriousDeodatus
- Cornmeal, not oats, but yea the health and "gross" factors of scrapple are way overrated. McD's and your standard hot dog are much more questionable. — BarryG
- Wait until President Owe-Bama realizes the health risks associated with eating scrapple. You will have to pay a tax, deposited into his health insurance premium lock box (guarded by Joe Biden)if you want to enjoy a piece every now and then (with ketchup).— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Comment removed.- @nuggett...please walk into the desert and flagellate yourself to sleep.— Cazptain Philadelphia
- I hear bread and pasta can be bad for many people. I do not care. I will enjoy fried scrapple between two pieces of bread with sunny side egg on top of the scrapple. With a large cup of black coffee. THIS IS HEAVEN.— denjamr
- Scrapple should be eaten with strawberry jam.
Habbersetts is the best brand.— njredneck - If you want to eat garbage then you eat scrapple.It is garbage mixed with spices to hide the true flavor.I ate it when I was young and did not know the contents.After learning the contents I stopped eating.Scrapple and hot sausage are the same.They both consist of animal parts that can not be sole any other way.So the products give the meat industry profit from their scraps that are destined for the garbage.So when you eat the products you are eating garbage.— Andrew Grier
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- SCRAPple..............aptly named!— PGelsman
- If you don't like it or are a self-proclaimed health nut, then simply don't eat it. It doesn't mean you have to rag on people who like it.— stefek23
- Schaeffer Bologna in Easton, Pa. made the best scrapple.— MilesLong1
If you see someone eating scrapple, report them to NASA. They are rogue androids. No genuine earthling can eat scrapple.
If they also eat Brussels Sprouts, you are looking at a General Officer of an alien invader force.
Add liver and you have come across an alien Starship Commander.
Run very fast. Be very afraid.
Gort klatu birada nikto.— r a leon- its pork slime! But, its the best like the guy said fried up on bread with a sunny side up egg. Lots tastier than an Egg McMuffin!— surfbear
- Seriously, Moderator? Very well, then: it's "made out of Butts and lips."— kjuggs77
- Scrapple and grits and eggs was our soul food breakfast in the morning.— Powelton villager
- My kids call it "Crapple"
— change1 - Grew up in the 50's on scrapple, eggs and grits.— Powelton villager
- As long as you eat anything in moderation, with the proper amount of daily exercise, you can have a healthy life. Also look at the list, most of the other food are just as heavy in fats and calories.— flavious27
- It tastes GOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDD!!!— WCJRJR
- Co-sign on Habersett's. Also, disliking scrapple for the taste (nearly impossible, but it could happen), is defensible. But lambasting people for eating it because of its contents? Reprehensible. I hope all you scrapple haters acquire scorching discharge-inducing venereal diseases. As Redd Foxx said, "A lot of people don't drink, don't smoke. No butter. No lard. 'Cause they want to live, they give up that good stuff...You gonna feel like a damn fool laying at the hospital dying from nothing!"— So_many_haters
