And the B-side.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I read about it on Wikipedia, and was disappointed to learn that there are no apples in it.
Missed the edit window: yes, I know Parker wrote it, but those guys’ recording was the first one I heard.
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.