Scrapple, it's what's for breakfast.
Everyone loves vintage wank, and everyone loves food wank. So what happens when we mix the two of them together?

Pure Gold.

In thoroughly modern fashion, EPICURE’s recipe was almost immediately wikified. PORCUPINE warned against over-frying the scrapple, A HOUSEKEEPER swapped in Graham flour, and MIDDLETOWN gave her method for removing excess grease.

Only PHYSICIAN seemed content with the dish as it was, calling it “a positive luxury, throwing the Frenchman’s pâté de foie gras entirely into the shade.”

As always, the haters far outnumbered the fans: One reader declared that he’d just as soon fry bread in lard and eat it than partake in what others called an “abominable mess,” a “culinary fraud upon the stomach” and a great way to contract trichinosis.

Many thanks to the NY Times for the excellent ~~wank report~~ article.

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sgaana
2009-12-03 03:21 am UTC (link)

My favorite way to describe scrapple is "American haggis!"

Note: this does not actually help with getting people to think about trying to eat it You also have to specify that the cooking method is entirely different. But the principle is the same, really.

(I once had haggis in Scotland that had basically been prepared kinda like scrapple, kinda like corned beef hash. It was DELICIOUS, and avoided that whole "boil the life out of it" problem.)

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sequinedlizard
2009-12-03 03:32 am UTC (link)

I had haggis when I was at a conference in Scotland. I tried it because, hey, I was a guest. It was much better than people would think. I even had seconds :)

I liked the scrapple fine when I had it, as well. It's just not something I've bought and made for myself since. I sort of forget it exists until it comes up in discussion.

I can imagine both would work well as hash, though.

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	cmdr_zoom 2009-12-03 04:54 am UTC (link)
	I suspect I would be a lot like "You eat sausage. Hell, you love sausage. You can get through this." deep breath and making sure there's a clear path to the exit and/or the trash, just in case) (Reply to this)(Parent)

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