Scrapple?

Guess we know who likes scrapple and who doesn't !    Mission accomplished !

Guys,

 

Thanks for the warning! I have not tried scapple but after reading this..... I have decided not to!

 

Thanks for the tip gents!

 

Mike Maurice

 

Spam is better?  You've got to be kidding!

 

Notice that junk mail is called Spam. It's not called Scrapple. 

 

Scrapple is so much better than junk mail and so much better than junk food. 

 

 

I don't need to eat, say, chilled monkey brains to know I don't want to. And yes, plenty of people tell stories about the stuff they were smart enough not to try.

Sorry, there are some things you don't need to try to know they're not for you.

 

"Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom"? I like the reference, but it's not like we're looking for the Ark of the Covenant. It's just Scrapple. No more dangerous than a hot dog or sausage link.

 

I respectfully beg to disagree with you Farmer Bill. Scrapple has a lot of "interesting" components where as Spam has pork shoulder and ham as its main components, we can argue the remaining ingredients as a moot point since they are pretty much the same.

SPAM

 

Jerry

So on Friday morning I do plan on trying Scrapple. I looked up some videos of people cooking it. I'm well aware of the ingredients and it still just looked like a super unhealthy version of sausage. It's been talked about so much here I have to give it a go.

 

Can anyone recommend a local diner that serves the "beginner" variants that were being discussed before?

I don't hear anyone mention scrapple in this immortal ode to Spam. 

Alexander's is just outside the fairgrounds, not sure if they serve scrapple though.
Don

Good luck! Scrapple is the only 'food' that I know of where they ask to see your medical insurance card before they will serve it to you! 

Alexander's does serve Scrapple.  Also Round the Clock diner on the other side of town. Best place, though it's kind of far, is a small place near Paradise. I forget the name but they had a farmer and pig out front. 

Nick, Great you are trying Scrapple. Diners normally deep fry scrapple, if you prefer, you can request regular fried scrapple. Deep fried is very good as well as fried.

CAUTION !! Once you try it you will want a regular supply, check shipping options to your home.

Note to those traveling to York who want to indulge their taste buds to the wonderful flavor of scrapple. Scrapple is not only meat served at breakfast, it is equally scrumptious served at dinner with French fries and baked beans. Also try spreading apple butter on the slice. 

Round the Clock, another fixture I've heard so much about. Guess that's where I'll take the plunge 

Well for you guys and gals that like SCRAPPLE you would probably love Rocky Mountain Oysters. 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moixjwPlCw0

 

 

Ketchup on Scrapple is pretty good. Smooths out the taste a little bit which might be good for a first try.

or my grandma used to say

everything but the squeal!!!!

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Do you mean Zinn's Diner in Lancaster? It's a good choice if you're in the area.

 

I can't make York...but I'll bite a big bunch of scrapple in your honor, gentlemen !

Doesn't that ruin the taste of the ketchup? 

 

Anyway, I have always understood that the proper way to eat ketchup is in an inch-thick-ketchup sandwich. 

The best recipe for Scrapple I found is plank scrapple.  You take a one inch pine board and put a big slice of Scrapple on it and bake at 350 for 30 minutes.  After you remove it from the oven scrape the Scrapple off into a garbage can and eat the pine board.

My Daughter the Stenoligist Not sure of the spelling of that as is spell check, anyway she tells me at my age I should refrain from eating that scrappy stuff . I said to her ,Thank you I will. You know it will make me live longer and I will most likely spend your inheritance on trains.

She said which brand do I prefer? 

jmiller, that is my recipe for salmon! 

Well now, at least, we know what your problem is.

You just need to be careful with the splinters when the board come out.

 

Just a normal Saturday breakfast around here.  Been eating this stuff all my life.  I'm 70 and my doc says I'm in great health. 

 

The Scrapple slices actually look like hash browns in that picture. Looks delicious because of that. Will find out for myself Friday!

Nick, please don't let them talk you into doing it! 

 

Persuading an unwary person to eat Scrapple must surely count as coercion to suicide, which is illegal in Pennsylvania. 

Nick: Happy to hear you are going for the scrapple taste test. You undoubtedly will enjoy each bite. Your only concern will be how will you get a daily supply delivered to your house.

I have grown up eating this delicious treat enjoying it for breakfast and dinner.

 

I can't wait to hear your comments after you taste it and experience the total enjoyment of eating scrapple.

Maybe have someone take pictures of your facial expressions during your first bite?

 

As I've alluded to in previous similar posts, if I were given the choice between having to smell a gorilla's armpit or eating a plate of sCRAPple, I'll take the gorilla's armpit.

 

My good friend John P. above has always promised that he would fix me up a sCRAPple sandwich while he still lived here in SoCal, to which I've told him by all means do so, but be sure to hold the sCRAPple.  Now that he's relocated back to the east coast I'm not only spared, but now he's back in good company with the rest of the masses there that delightfully eat that culinary abomination.  Must be too much farm pasture runoff in the water table back there or something. 

 

sCRAPple = Mystery Meat.

 

 

Live from the Round the Clock diner. Had my first few bites. Very simply, it looked, smelled, and tasted similar to breakfast sausage links. It's totally fine, and I'm probably going to eat most of it with my eggs and bacon.

So there you have it. Scrapple virgin no more

After eating Scrapple....my flex track curves stay in gauge, my fast angle wheels don't derail in turn-outs, and my Proto 1 no longer gives me the three clanks of death ! !

Huzzah !

Glad to hear it, Nick!  I actually had none this trip but will correct my failing at October York if not before then. 

All this scrapple talk is getting me hungry!    Now 'scuze me while I go unravel some breakfast, gents.   

And to all this excellence...I must add one item.   You want really awesome scrapple, or even bacon for that matter...get yourself a grill press. This little flat iron gizmo looks like a pre-steam clothes iron.  You heat it up in your skillet, and then apply the scrapple. cover with the press for about five mins. on medium heat. Flip the scrapple and re-apply the press for say another two minutes....and - BOOM ! -  yunz got it better than ever before!   Works good on sausage patties too, plus other stuff.

Top 3 Scrapple combinations:

 

!. Scrapple and Ketchup

2. Scrapple and Egg Yolk

3. Scrapple and Brown Gravy.

 

Your results may vary.

 

How scrapple is made....

 

 

How Hot-dogs are made....

 

 

Your choice. 

Thank you for posting those entertaining videos, Nicole. To pick from the two, I would prefer the bottled & bonded over the moonshine. I can't remember the last time I enjoyed a tube steak. However, when I do partake, an all beef variety is much preferred over a beefporken offering.