# Scrapple? Really? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [December 14, 2023, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrapple-really/994617 "2023-12-14T21:27:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2023, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrapple-really/994617/21 "2023-12-15T17:17:26Z")
And the [B-side](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg4eOHc3Rpg). ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2023, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrapple-really/994617/22 "2023-12-15T17:18:29Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > > [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](#): > > > > white pudding in Ireland > > What’s that? [Googles] [Oh, I see.](http://www.reallancashireblackpuddings.co.uk/traditional-irish-white-pudding/) > > ETA: Oh, look, you can [get it in the USA](https://myersofkeswick.com/products/white-pudding-8oz-1) > > . That link to the British pudding company’s website really sells it when it mentions that their white pudding has a twenty week shelf life… Never have had scrapple before, but Mrs. SMV’s family is from southeastern Pennsylvania, so I’ve heard of it. I ate breakfast at a diner near Baltimore’s airport and was bemused to see that the breakfast menu offered both scrapple and grits; thought that was a neat summation of Maryland’s cultural history, being neither Northern nor Southern, but influenced by both. ---
**Author:** ![JeffB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeffb/32/188_2.png) [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2023, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrapple-really/994617/23 "2023-12-16T00:38:04Z")
I used to say sausage was made from the leftovers after butchering a pig. Scrapple was made from the leftovers after making sausage. Souse is made from the leftover after making scrapple. ---
**Author:** ![minlokwat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minlokwat/32/2844_2.png) [@minlokwat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minlokwat)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2023, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrapple-really/994617/24 "2023-12-16T00:55:57Z")
Marylander checking in. I’ve been eating scrapple my entire life. I always cook it well-done with the edges burnt / crispy. You can either pan fry it or you can broil it in the oven. My wife (also from Maryland) eats hers with ketchup --yuck-- and I take mine with a skosh of grape jelly. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2023, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrapple-really/994617/25 "2023-12-16T00:59:35Z")
Scrapple isn’t just a taste for those who grew up with it - I’d never tried it before I moved to northern Virginia in my 20s, and now it’s in my breakfast rotation along with bacon and other breakfast meats. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2023, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrapple-really/994617/26 "2023-12-16T01:42:55Z")
Oh, yeah, I never had it until I went to college, either. If you’re the sort who likes greasy meatlike products, you’ll like it. I wouldn’t call it a “northern” dish, though: It’s mostly specifically just the Delaware Valley. I’ve never encountered it in Ohio. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2023, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrapple-really/994617/27 "2023-12-16T01:57:28Z")
What’s in scrapple? “Everything but the oink,” was the saying when I was a kid. I no longer eat meat, so scrapple is out (cue joke about it being barely meat). But it is damn yummy, well-done or mooshy. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2023, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrapple-really/994617/28 "2023-12-17T10:10:56Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > Ok, well I think I can go ahead and pass on scrapple. > 😲 I read about it on Wikipedia, and was disappointed to learn that there are no apples in it. [I blame Getz and Mulligan.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mdg9MglTn0M) ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2023, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrapple-really/994617/29 "2023-12-17T10:30:42Z")
Missed the edit window: yes, I know Parker wrote it, but those guys’ recording was the first one I heard. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2023, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrapple-really/994617/30 "2023-12-17T13:31:32Z")
My grandparents kept hogs and would make scrapple when the hogs were butchered. I’ve never had scrapple as good as what my grandmother made from scratch, so I’m kind of ruined from having it now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrapple-really/994617.md?page=1)