2007-02-04 15:00:45 · 9 answers · asked by russ s 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Ethnic Cuisine
Scrapple is most like sausage, although not entirely- it is a breakfast meat commonly eaten in the eastern Pennsylvania area. It is very common to find it on the menu in Philadelphia. Scrapple is made of whatever is left from the pig- the scraps left over that doesn't go into anything else. Those scraps are ground up and combined with cornmeal to form a loaf, and pieces are sliced off and fried up in a pan.
2007-02-04 15:45:48 · answer #1 · answered by feminaformosa 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scrapple is also called head cheese. It's made by taking the head of an animal, boiling it to cook the flesh and to extract the gelatin from the bones, and then removing all of the bits of meat from the skull, adding them back to the boiling liquid, and chilling the whole. It has it's North American origins in the Germanic and Pennsylvania Dutch populations of the industrial north-east.
I suppose that the best comparision would be to an aspic, a classic French dish.
2007-02-04 15:06:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
yes, I've eaten it. A friend shared it with several of us at college. He served it sliced & fried. I recall it as being a little more fatty than your average sausage; more tender than Spam; a little salty. It didn't taste bad; probably would have been good with BBQ sauce or potatoes. However, since it isn't kosher (something I didn't know then !), I'd now recommend against eating it. sorry.
2007-02-04 18:21:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Yum! It is scrumptious. Imagine a cornmeal pancake with sausage mixed in. Enjoy with ketchup. Some people eat it with syrup but they are weird.
2007-02-05 02:54:24 · answer #4 · answered by World Traveler 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have eaten it. It's an acquired taste. It's similar to souse or hog head cheese without the pimentos and stuff.
2007-02-06 12:37:19 · answer #5 · answered by MsE 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've seen it at the store but have been afraid to try it. They have it right next to the liver mush.
2007-02-04 15:05:12 · answer #6 · answered by Tiki™ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I tried it but I didnt like it, kind of like the hash potatoes with sausage. Not for me.
2007-02-04 15:04:01 · answer #7 · answered by Ms. Q 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Uggg that stuff is horrible. I didn't even like it before I became vegan. It's like dogfood mixed with hashbrowns.
2007-02-06 12:29:32 · answer #8 · answered by princessforever1 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I've never eaten it, but I'd compare it to freshly upchucked dog vomit.
2007-02-04 15:31:16 · answer #9 · answered by Sugar Pie 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋