You know your from Pennsylvania

PhilNH5 · Apr 11, 2002

"You know what scrapple is and still eat it.........................."

I'm from PA originally. Now live in NH and work in Mass. I love scrapple. The only REAL disagreement over scrapple is wether to serve it crispy or slightly mushy.

But up here I was always getting grief about the contents of scrapple even though no one had ever personally tried it. Then I pointed out that a hot dog was very similar. Ground up unidentified meat products. Only difference from scrapple is they grind it so find you can't identify anything. Well that shut them up.

Phil

kubmech · Apr 11, 2002

My vote is Crispy on the outside and mushy in the middle.

Anonymous Poster · Apr 11, 2002

What the he!! is scrapple?
I know what french fried pumpkin is, and funnel cakes aint at all bad, but I get a little nervous about some stuff, especially if I don't see it being made.
I up and move that woman out of Pa, and now she wants me to paint a distilfink on the barn, and she's takin up quilting. Must be some residual effect from the hard water in Lehigh Valley.

Gomez · Apr 12, 2002

.....You don't know the difference between "your" and "you're"./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

.....You call a big stream a creek (but you pronounce it "crick").

Regarding scrapple- I've lived within an hour or so of Philadelphia my entire life. I had not tried scapple until last year. It wasn't bad. I like the analogy to hot dogs- that should quiet the "oooo-sayers".

PhilNH5 · Apr 12, 2002

Franz,
Scrapple is pretty much what it sounds like....scraps of the pig leftover after butchering. Stuff that there was no other use for. They ground it up, mixed in cornmeal and spices and formed it into a loaf. You cut a slice and heat it in a frypan. Very tasty. It was rather coarsely ground so you can see small bits.

Trust me on this - it tastes much better than it sounds. Boy I could go for some now. But like soft pretzels, Tasty Kakes, real cheesesteaks and hoagies - it isn't available up here.

And don't even mention funnelcakes. Up here they eat a half raw blob of goo and call it fried dough. Similar concept - mostly available at fairs and carnivals but IMHO it is inedible.
Phil

rockyridgefarm · Apr 12, 2002

Well what I miss from PA is good bread, somedays what I wouldn't do for some salt sticks. I'm from the 'Burgh so it isn't balogna-call it jumbo.

First day of each season was a holisy for us, too.

Roads so bad- don't go out without at least 2 spares.

Going down Rt. 8 and a boulder goes through your roof? Keep moving....

This is MYron Cope on SPOORTS!

Anonymous Poster · Apr 13, 2002

Ahhhhh, I think I'll pass on the scrapple, made myself a solumn vow back in 71 that I'd never again eat anything I didn't like the sound of, after 2 years in the Nam, and I ain't broke that vow yet.
Wife's headed bact to Atown first of next month, class reunion thing, and has informed me she will be hauling her golf clubs along. She's also gotta check out what is happening this year for Musicfest. I'm startin to think there must be some kind of magnetic attraction from the Bethleham Steel plant, or Mack & Brockway factorys.
I guess I just gotta send her back for rehab every few years.

TerryinMD · Apr 13, 2002

From the 'burgh to being an Okie..... Whoaaa..... /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Now depending on what part of the 'burgh you're from is very important. Now, did yuns shop at the jint eegil and put your groceries in a poke?

did yuns use a gumband instead of a rubber band?

did yuns use a tile to wipe the tile after a shower? (towel and tile pronounced the same)

Ahhh... good ol' Pittsburghese

Terry

chim · Apr 13, 2002

Kubmech, you're making me hungry even though I had breakfast. Slice the stuff 1/4" to 3/8" thick and brown it on both sides.

REAL bologna (not "summer bologna" like the pale pink Oscar Mayer crap) by Kunzler, Berks, Martin, Seltzer or one of them is something else that we have to be thankful for here..........chim