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(This is a non-kosher post. My Jewish readers might want to skip this one.)
(Actually, this is a really disgusting post. All of my readers might want to skip this one.)
This female I work with who's from Pennsylvania told us all about scrapple. She told us how it's grey and disgusting.
Apparently, it's a Pennsylvania thing. It's ground up pork meat, pork fat, pork skin, and assorted pork by-products mixed with cornbread, salt, and spices, which you slice, fry up, and eat for breakfast. Of course, since it's a Pennsylvania thing, you can't find it around here, which is why most of the people I worked with had ever heard of it.
Then I saw it at the local Stop & Shop yesterday, and I had to indulge, just to experience it myself.
I fried up a few slices, just to see what it's all about. Basically, it kind of has the taste of a pork breakfast sausage, mixed with a corn muffin, but the pork fat and juices get into the corn and softens it up, so the end result is that the inside is this greasy, goopy concoction.
I managed to eat the whole piece that I was eating. The rest went right into the garbage. Maybe the cats that live in the dumpster will like it, but I think not. My conclusion: I am never going to eat scrapple again. In fact, I am never going to Pennsylvania again. If I have to go to Ohio, I'm taking the long way around.
Scrapple:
Ingredients: Pork stock, pork, pork skins, corn meal, pork livers, wheat flour, pork fat, pork hearts, salt, spices. Serving size 2 oz. Calories: 120. Calories from fat: 70. Total fat: 8g 12%. Sat. fat 3g 15%. Cholesterol 30mg 10%. Sodium 280mg 12%. Total carb 7g 2%. Protein 5g. Vitamin A 35%. Iron 6%.
(Actually, this is a really disgusting post. All of my readers might want to skip this one.)
This female I work with who's from Pennsylvania told us all about scrapple. She told us how it's grey and disgusting.
Apparently, it's a Pennsylvania thing. It's ground up pork meat, pork fat, pork skin, and assorted pork by-products mixed with cornbread, salt, and spices, which you slice, fry up, and eat for breakfast. Of course, since it's a Pennsylvania thing, you can't find it around here, which is why most of the people I worked with had ever heard of it.
Then I saw it at the local Stop & Shop yesterday, and I had to indulge, just to experience it myself.
I fried up a few slices, just to see what it's all about. Basically, it kind of has the taste of a pork breakfast sausage, mixed with a corn muffin, but the pork fat and juices get into the corn and softens it up, so the end result is that the inside is this greasy, goopy concoction.
I managed to eat the whole piece that I was eating. The rest went right into the garbage. Maybe the cats that live in the dumpster will like it, but I think not. My conclusion: I am never going to eat scrapple again. In fact, I am never going to Pennsylvania again. If I have to go to Ohio, I'm taking the long way around.
Scrapple:
Ingredients: Pork stock, pork, pork skins, corn meal, pork livers, wheat flour, pork fat, pork hearts, salt, spices. Serving size 2 oz. Calories: 120. Calories from fat: 70. Total fat: 8g 12%. Sat. fat 3g 15%. Cholesterol 30mg 10%. Sodium 280mg 12%. Total carb 7g 2%. Protein 5g. Vitamin A 35%. Iron 6%.
