Have you ever heard of Scrapple?

Well, I hadn't either. But today at our local hangout, one of the waitresses brought back a bag of it from her trip to Pennsylvania. It caused quite a stir among the staff, and it wasn't long before a plate was brought out for us to try. Our waiter googled it and found this from Wikipedia:

"Scrapple (Pennsylvania Dutch) is traditionally a mush of pork scraps and trimmings combined with cornmeal and flour, often buckwheat flour, and spices. The mush is formed into a semi-solid congealed loaf, and slices of the scrapple are then panfried before serving. Scrapple is typically made of hog offal, such as the head, heart, liver, and other scraps, which are boiled with any bones attached (often the entire head?."

Congealed pork "mush" didn't really sound like anyone's idea of a good meal- the cooks brought out an old pan so as not to "scrapple-up" the restaurant's.

I must admit, the taste wasn't awful- it wasn't particularly good either - but the texture and the appearance was what really took the cake:



Somewhere between cat vomit and a smushed turd. I think I could learn to like it, if I could just blindfold myself while eating it.