The Observation Deck

Hey there!

Anyone know about Scrapple? It is a corn-mealy pork-ish spam-like breakfast meat that is popular a bit east of here (in particular in Pennsylvania, I am told). I had it a couple times and it is...interesting. Anyway, a friend of mine is a former trucker and considered this to be the highlight of his travel cusuine and for his b-day coming up I wanted to buy a loaf of this stuff if at all possible. TJ's doesn't have it. Mainstream markets don't seem to have it. All the West side delis I have talked to either don't carry it or never heard of it (I don't blame them). Goetta from Cincinnati was similar but uses oatmeal instead of cornmeal if I recall but even that is rare. Any scrapple fans out there???



Later!

Phil

Phil--- I believe it is primarily corn meal based with no meat. It serves as a side like grits or potatoes.
I think if you look in the dairy or frozen food sections you might find some.
Stan

Oh sorry, I thought this was an invite to play Scrabble. My bad. Carry on.

Corey

You mean your not going to recommend a wine to go with Scrapple?

Come on, I know you can.

I

Found Scrapple at Giant Eagle in the "meat-ish" dish section. It has a lot of meat...the leftover kind, of course. It is like the ancient forebear of Spam. My bud is crazy for it. Delish.

wine pairing = Educated Guess red meritage.
It goes with Scrapple and Scrabble!

Corey

I saw it at Dahl's (one of the grocery chains here in Des Moines) while shopping the other day. Looks like it's not just an Ohio thing...!

Srapple is one of those dishes that was fashioned to make use of the stuff you don't otherwise use.....

Kind of a New World Hagus. Generally made from pork, the cast off pieces, referred to as offal, are cooked. The broth is redued and thickened with cornmeal. The meat is finely chopped and returned to the corn meal mixture and the mix is formed into loaves. It solidifies as it cools. The loaf can then be sliced and fried.

Usually served a breakfast side dish, so the obvious beverage is a bloody mary..

Jeff Endress wrote:
Usually served a breakfast side dish,

Who says wine isn't for breakfast? I thought that is how you got through Law School.
Corey

Corey

You're confusing wine with whine

Jeff

Jeff Endress wrote:Corey

You're confusing wine with whine

Jeff

Sorry, I must have been given bad information.

Corey