# I want to delve into your deepest darkest secret.. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 7, 2000, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-delve-into-your-deepest-darkest-secret/21679 "2000-06-07T18:30:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Asmodeus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@Asmodeus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asmodeus)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2000, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-delve-into-your-deepest-darkest-secret/21679/1 "2000-06-07T18:30:27Z")
Do you like spam? I like spam prepared the way I like livermush. Sliced thin…fried crisp. On a sandwhich…bread of your choice…mayo and mustard… The question is…Should anyone eat spam? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2000, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-delve-into-your-deepest-darkest-secret/21679/2 "2000-06-07T18:34:20Z")
I haven’t had spam in, probably, 20 years . . . But I don’t recall it as being particularly objectionable. It’s salty ‘n’ spicy, which I like. I think it’s the IDEA of spam which is so offensive. But I even like—I can’t believe I’m admitting this—Chicken In a Biscuit, the White-Trash Treat! Now I will have to kill you all . . . ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2000, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-delve-into-your-deepest-darkest-secret/21679/3 "2000-06-07T18:37:55Z")
Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam Spam-pety Spaaam, Spam-pety Spaaam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam… Sorry, couldn’t resist. 😃 Tried it. ONCE! ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2000, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-delve-into-your-deepest-darkest-secret/21679/4 "2000-06-07T18:46:01Z")
I once had a friend who was a rep for Hormel. She pressed upon me several containers of Spam. I’m now a vegetarian. Need I say more? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2000, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-delve-into-your-deepest-darkest-secret/21679/5 "2000-06-07T18:48:21Z")
Darn. When I saw the title of this thread, “I want to delve into your deepest darkest secret…”, I thought it was going to be another thread about anal sex… ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2000, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-delve-into-your-deepest-darkest-secret/21679/6 "2000-06-07T18:49:52Z")
Lover-ly Spam, wonderful Spam. I don’t buy it, because it’s expensive. Maybe it used to be relatively cheap, but with improvements in wholesaling and refrigeration technology, canned meat is not a cheap alternative anymore. If memory serves though, when crisp on the outside and verging on gelatinous on the inside it is fine. ---
**Author:** ![Asmodeus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@Asmodeus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asmodeus)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2000, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-delve-into-your-deepest-darkest-secret/21679/7 "2000-06-07T18:52:47Z")
Ellen… Wow!..72 posts in how long? and spam brought you out! Good to see yas! Tracer… people will admit to anal sex…Just not to eating spam…🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Smartass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@Smartass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smartass)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2000, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-delve-into-your-deepest-darkest-secret/21679/8 "2000-06-07T19:02:55Z")
Alright, I admit it. I eat Spam and I like it. My wife and daughter like it, too. We like it because it is easy and quick–just slice it up and fry it a little. It’s particularly good during the time of year when you can get lots of fresh vegetables, so the meat part of your meal isn’t that important anyway. Of course, we don’t eat it all that often… I saw a thing on Dateline (while in Germany, I’ll watch damn near anything that happens to be in English) about how Hawaiians absolutely love Spam. They showed one restaurant where the guy slices it up and serves it in a fancy pasta dish. Lastly, I’ve felt sort of patriotic about Spam ever since my stepfather told me his theory of how it helped us win WWII. -VM ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2000, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-delve-into-your-deepest-darkest-secret/21679/9 "2000-06-07T19:08:12Z")
**tracer** wrote: > [@](#): > > Darn. When I saw the title of this thread, “I want to delve into your deepest darkest secret…”, I thought it was going to be another thread about anal sex… That’s ok, honey - come confess over in the **Gay Guy** threads. 😉 Spam schmam - let’s talk about **SCRAPPLE!** Esprix ---
**Author:** ![Asmodeus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@Asmodeus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asmodeus)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2000, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-delve-into-your-deepest-darkest-secret/21679/10 "2000-06-07T19:12:52Z")
Or perhaps sweetbreads? Or porkbrains and scrambled eggs? I live in the deep south. We use everything on the pig except the squeal…and they aere working on that I’m sure. ---
**Author:** ![Smartass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@Smartass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smartass)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2000, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-delve-into-your-deepest-darkest-secret/21679/11 "2000-06-07T19:13:29Z")
Maybe I’ve been out of the country too much… What the hell is Scrapple? -VM ---
**Author:** ![mountain\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@mountain\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mountain_man)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2000, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-delve-into-your-deepest-darkest-secret/21679/12 "2000-06-07T19:18:25Z")
[coming out from lurking to respond to something really important] > [@](#): > > \*\* > **Esprix** wrote: > > Spam schmam - let’s talk about **SCRAPPLE!** > > \*\* About a year ago I moved out to Colorado from Lancaster, PA and have been missing out on this delicacy. I guess I’ll just have to settle for mountain oysters. [/coming out from lurking to respond to something really important] ---
**Author:** ![mountain\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@mountain\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mountain_man)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2000, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-delve-into-your-deepest-darkest-secret/21679/13 "2000-06-07T19:21:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Maybe I’ve been out of the country too much… > > What the hell is Scrapple? > > -VM > \*\* Well, I’m not sure that anyone \*\* really \*\* knows but from what I can gather it’s a pureed collection of what’s left on the killing floor at the end of the day with a lot of spices added in (thinly sliced and fried, sometimes eaten with syrup.) Basically, it consists of the meat that is rejected for hot dogs. ---
**Author:** ![Smartass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@Smartass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smartass)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2000, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-delve-into-your-deepest-darkest-secret/21679/14 "2000-06-07T19:24:17Z")
Thanks, **mountain man**. Sounds delicious. And mountain oysters? Man, I am starting to really feel out-of-touch. -VM ---
**Author:** ![mountain\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@mountain\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mountain_man)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2000, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-delve-into-your-deepest-darkest-secret/21679/15 "2000-06-07T19:44:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Thanks, **mountain man**. Sounds delicious. > > And mountain oysters? > > Man, I am starting to really feel out-of-touch. > > -VM > \*\* mountain oysters would be steer production by-products (also, thinly sliced and fried… hmmm, noticing a trend here(I guess that anything is edible if it’s thinly sliced and fried)) (FYI: steers are neutered bulls) ---
**Author:** ![Boris\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@Boris\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boris_B)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2000, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-delve-into-your-deepest-darkest-secret/21679/16 "2000-06-07T19:45:16Z")
Or, stated in a more temporally correct manner, making use of the commutative law, bull - mountain oyster = steer. ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2000, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-delve-into-your-deepest-darkest-secret/21679/17 "2000-06-07T19:51:01Z")
Those are ROCKY Mountain oysters, guys and gals. Come on out to the Testicle Festival, held every summer at Rock Creek, Montana (official motto: “Have A Ball!”). I shit you not. It’s a ton of fun and you don’t actually have to consume Rocky Mountain oysters if you don’t want to – which I did not and do not. But the beer’s cold, the bratwursts are hot, and the bands are loud. I hear the oysters are good, too, but, as I said, couldn’t tell you from personal experience as they are on the list of Things I Would Never Eat, No, Not In A Million Years. ---
**Author:** ![Smartass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@Smartass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smartass)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2000, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-delve-into-your-deepest-darkest-secret/21679/18 "2000-06-07T19:52:54Z")
Thanks again for the info…I think I’ll stick with the Spam, though, for now. That festival sounds pretty cool, though. -VM ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2000, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-delve-into-your-deepest-darkest-secret/21679/19 "2000-06-07T20:27:04Z")
[/QUOTE] Well, I’m not sure that anyone \*\* really \*\* knows but from what I can gather it’s a pureed collection of what’s left on the killing floor at the end of the day with a lot of spices added in (thinly sliced and fried, sometimes eaten with syrup.) Basically, it consists of the meat that is rejected for hot dogs. [/QUOTE] **A-HA!** I was hoping someone would ask this… Having once been a close personal friend of the Habbersett family (yes, the ones that _invented_ Scrapple), I can say for certainty that Scrapple is made from all the meat parts of a pig that Europeans consider delicacies but Americans won’t touch - organs, muscle, etc. No, it’s not “lips and assholes” or hooves or snouts or lungs or anything like that, but rather the heart, brain, liver, and the like, just like from any other animal, just mashed together into little bricks. Personally, I can’t stand the stuff, but there it is anyway. 😉 Esprix ---
**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2000, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-delve-into-your-deepest-darkest-secret/21679/20 "2000-06-07T20:53:31Z")
[Moderator Hat ON] I think this 'un’s a better fit for IMHO. Have fun there, guys. [Moderator Hat OFF] [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-want-to-delve-into-your-deepest-darkest-secret/21679.md?page=2)