Today, November 9, is National Scrapple Day (though I'm sure you already knew that and were celebrating by heating up your scrapple breakfast, lunch, and/or dinner).
Read More...Written by Adam Gerard | November 9, 2016 at 2:21 PM | 2 Comments
Today, November 9, is National Scrapple Day (though I'm sure you already knew that and were celebrating by heating up your scrapple breakfast, lunch, and/or dinner).
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Written by Adam Gerard | October 21, 2016 at 1:08 PM | 3 Comments
It was the second full weekend in October. Looking around me, I saw people waiting in long lines for scrapple sandwiches at three separate vendors. That is when I knew I was in the right place. I was with my people again. I was attending the Apple Scrapple Festival.
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Written by Adam Gerard | September 15, 2016 at 4:23 PM | 1 Comment
Topics: scrapple recipes, scrapple creations
Written by Adam Gerard | September 7, 2016 at 8:30 AM | 3 Comments
BEHOLD! A brand new scrapple + waffles invention! It's creator, Israel Engle, calls it The Scraffle!!
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Written by Adam Gerard | September 5, 2016 at 3:21 PM | 8 Comments
You're at your kitchen table and scrapple is sitting there on your plate next to your eggs and pancakes. Or you're at the diner and there's a beautiful side dish of crispy scrapple slices sitting there.
Before you dig in to the scrapple, what do you put on top of it?
Every scrapple lover has their own answer to this question.
Nothing!
Ketchup!
Maple syrup!!
These are some of the standards that scrapple lovers are most passionate about, and I wanted to get an idea of
I put the question out there to the Scrapple Facebook Page and was not disappointed.
What do you like to put on top of your scrapple? Ketchup? Maple syrup? Hot sauce? King syrup? Nothing at all? I'm more...
Posted by Scrapple, by Adam Gerard on Thursday, August 25, 2016
I counted up the answers and below are the not-at-all-scientific results.
Topics: eating scrapple, scrapple toppings
Written by Adam Gerard | August 25, 2016 at 2:46 PM | 6 Comments
I was poking around the internet, looking for some animated scrapple GIFs and I didn't find any.
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Written by Adam Gerard | August 23, 2016 at 8:30 AM | 1 Comment
What is it about scrapple that we love so much?
It's delicious!
I know, it is delicious. But why?
Because it tastes good!
OK, also true. I think we're getting closer. Why does it taste so good?
Because it's pork, and greasy, and crispy on the outside but warm and gooey on the inside.
BINGO!
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Written by Adam Gerard | August 18, 2016 at 8:30 AM | 0 Comments
Beer for Breakfast? Yes, please! But just to be clear, I'm talking about a beer by Dogfish Head. Its ingredients:
And something else...what is that one last ingredient? I'm having a hard time remembering...[scratches head]. Oh right, scrapple!
HOLY PIG OFFAL! There's scrapple beer?!?! That's right, there is scrapple beer.
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Written by Adam Gerard | August 16, 2016 at 1:36 PM | 4 Comments
Like you, I fell for it. Multiple people shared the following photo with me and I got excited:
If bacon is good enough for ice cream, why not scrapple? But, alas. The good folks at Billy Penn did some research and found out it was all too good to be true.
“We have 16 different varieties of specialty ice cream and sorbet in pints, and the selection can vary by store and season,” said Wegmans spokesperson Katie Redmond. “Scrapple is not one of those flavors.” 😭
[emoji added by me, but should be part of their official statement]
In fact, that photo of Wegmans Scrapple Ice Cream ("scrapple chunks!" #nomnomnom) has been quietly living on the internet since 2010 when it was created by Pete Ruggieri and posted on his Facebook page Scrapple is the New Bacon. A recent reshare shoved it into the scrapple spotlight, leading to thousands of reshares (seriously) and a rollercoaster of emotions.
I thought the journey would end there and we would all be left wondering, would scrapple ice cream be any good? Would it be made with real chunks? Can you somehow maintain the crispy outside while still enveloping it in ice cream?
But Danya Henninger, Cassie Owen and Angie Nassar at Billy Penn wouldn't let the dream die. They wondered aloud too, and then did something about it. And suddenly scrapple ice cream existed!
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Topics: scrapple creations, scrapple desserts
Written by Adam Gerard | March 20, 2016 at 11:21 PM | 2 Comments
When you describe scrapple to a vegetarian they almost always cringe. Not only is scrapple made of meat, but it contains hearts and livers and, well, pretty much a little bit of every part of the pig.
OK, you're probably never going to get a vegetarian to try even a tiny bit of scrapple (unless it's vegan scrapple...). But you might be able to get them to appreciate it.
Read More...Topics: scrapple origins, scrapple ingredients
scrap·ple
/skrapəl/
noun
Scraps of pork or other meat stewed with cornmeal and shaped into loaves for slicing and frying. Most common in the Mid-Atlantic United States. It's delicious.
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