### Author:  [@terrichick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terrichick)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2011, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-scrapple/578536/1 "2011-04-15T19:50:55Z")
ok ok enough about Spam. Does anybody know whats in Scrapple?
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### Author:  [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2011, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-scrapple/578536/2 "2011-04-15T20:19:35Z")
> [@terrichick](#):
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> ok ok enough about Spam. Does anybody know whats in Scrapple?
50 to 75% zombie meat.
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### Author:  [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2011, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-scrapple/578536/3 "2011-04-15T20:38:48Z")
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The OP originally revived a zombie in CCC. I moved the question to this forum.
CCC \> GQ
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### Author:  [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2011, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-scrapple/578536/4 "2011-04-15T20:40:25Z")
[http://lmgtfy.com/?q=What's+in+Scrapple%3F](http://lmgtfy.com/?q=What%27s+in+Scrapple%3F)
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### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2011, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-scrapple/578536/5 "2011-04-15T20:41:30Z")
I was once doing focus groups with consumers in suburban Philadelphia, when two very portly gentlemen started talking about scrapple. One of them described its ingredients as, “everything in the pig but the oink”. Eeew.
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### Author:  [@dmatsch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dmatsch)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2011, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-scrapple/578536/6 "2011-04-15T20:56:22Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#):
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> I was once doing focus groups with consumers in suburban Philadelphia, when two very portly gentlemen started talking about scrapple. One of them described its ingredients as, “everything in the pig but the oink”. Eeew.
I was born in Easton, Pa and I grew up on this vile quivering lump of grey gelled “meat”. Thanks, mom.
I would more describe it as “Everything that’s not good enough to go in a hot dog”
I would also describe it as “something that will never pass my lips again”
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2011, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-scrapple/578536/7 "2011-04-15T21:31:04Z")
Based on the name, it _should_ be scraps + apples.
With maybe some letter tiles thrown in.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2011, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-scrapple/578536/8 "2011-04-15T21:35:06Z")
Mostly, grease held together with cornmeal. Yeah, it’s gross, but it’s also delicious.
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### Author:  [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2011, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-scrapple/578536/9 "2011-04-15T22:29:19Z")
Pork Stock, Pork, Pork Skins, Corn Meal, Wheat Flour, Pork Hearts, Pork Livers, Pork Tongues, Salt and Spices
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### Author:  [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2011, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-scrapple/578536/10 "2011-04-16T00:43:15Z")
If heaven could be described in grey, porcine brick form, its name would be _“scrapple”_. Perhaps…nay, unequivocally and absolutely, the finest, more or less, semi-digestible mass of adipose and cartilaginous-rich matter this side of the Milky Way galaxy.
As a wee lad, Mom would place a slab and a half of this fried food of the gods, slathered in catsup and topped with a fried egg over-easy, between two buttered slices of lightly toasted Arnold bread. Life just doesn’t get much better than that—even a life prematurely interrupted by complications and comorbidities of diabetes.
A devil-may-care evening with a slightly inebriated, scantily-clad nubile vixen vs. a Scrapple Sandwich? You keep the boink, I’ll take the oink.
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### Author:  [@Vashbul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vashbul)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2011, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-scrapple/578536/11 "2011-04-16T04:22:32Z")
A favorite scene from _Sling Blade_.
Karl: [Eating potted meat] I reckon it tastes alright.
Frank: You really think it’s got peckers in there?
Karl: You know better than that. You ought not say that word.
Frank: It smells funny.
Karl: Yeah, it’s pretty loud. Looky there. I believe you right. I believe I see one right in there.
[They laugh]
So, is potted meat the same thing as scrapple? And what’s “commodity meat”?
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### Author:  [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2011, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-scrapple/578536/12 "2011-04-16T05:07:23Z")
I always found that line from _Sling Blade_ interesting. “Loud” is used to mean “foul smelling.” I think I’ve also encountered this same usage in Shakespeare, actually. How commonly is this used in American dialects?
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### Author:  [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2011, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-scrapple/578536/13 "2011-04-16T07:20:37Z")
Relevant [video game clip](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wgBxSX1SiE).
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### Author:  [@Claude\_Remains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claude_Remains)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2011, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-scrapple/578536/14 "2011-04-16T08:26:49Z")
“Balls” - Geoffrey Peterson
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### Author:  [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2011, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-scrapple/578536/15 "2011-04-16T17:22:20Z")
Snapple =/= Scrapple.
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### Author:  [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2011, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-scrapple/578536/16 "2011-04-16T17:31:59Z")
I urge you to eat goetta instead. Scrapple is vile and there’s been a scientific connection drawn to its consumption that creates a predilection in humans to hump their sisters/brothers and to an irrepressible desire to slurp great quantities of Iron City beer and to root for the Pittsburgh Steelers, often all at the same time.
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### Author:  [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2011, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-scrapple/578536/17 "2011-04-16T17:42:45Z")
> [@Philster](#):
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> Pork Stock, Pork, Pork Skins, Corn Meal, Wheat Flour, Pork Hearts, Pork Livers, Pork Tongues, Salt and Spices
This is typical.
Scrapple gets a bad rap but like a lot of things if it were it served to you without any explanation, you’d probably like it. Provided it were cooked properly, of course (sliced thin and fried until crispy).
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2011, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-scrapple/578536/18 "2011-04-16T20:10:14Z")
> [@](#):
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> I urge you to eat goetta instead. Scrapple is vile and there’s been a scientific connection drawn to its consumption that creates a predilection in humans to hump their sisters/brothers and to an irrepressible desire to slurp great quantities of Iron City beer and to root for the Pittsburgh Steelers, often all at the same time.
In my experience, consumption of scrapple is much more strongly correlated with drinking Yeungling and rooting for the Eagles.
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### Author:  [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2011, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-scrapple/578536/19 "2011-04-17T01:39:37Z")
> [@Chronos](#):
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> In my experience, consumption of scrapple is much more strongly correlated with drinking Yeungling and rooting for the Eagles.
A worthy try, but Eagles fans are notoriously pissed off. I don’t know why they booed Santa either.
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### Author:  [@mac\_bolan00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mac_bolan00)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2011, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-in-scrapple/578536/20 "2011-04-17T02:08:38Z")
i don’t know where you guys get yours but our aunt who lives in philly makes scrapple from choice lean pork.
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