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[puff_not_snuff]

How did we get to pork? Weeners, Cake, pork rolls, scrapple... Damn, I really don't want to reread this thread, but my stupid inquiring mind... and I'm hungry.

I mentioned a regional NJ/PA product called pork roll as Ween has a song "pork roll eggs and cheese" which is a breakfast sandwich up here.

"so momma, if you please, pass me the pork roll egg and cheese
If you please, on a kaiser bun
Momma, if you please, pass me the pork roll egg and cheese
If you please, on a kaiser bun"

 

[briarbuck]

Looked it up, seems the same as scrapple. I use to love that stuff.

Goetta is prime pork cuts with oats. German of origin. Fried it gets crisp.

Scrapple uses mashed corn. Mushier and not as good imho.

 

[puff_not_snuff]

Goetta is prime pork cuts with oats. German of origin. Fried it gets crisp.

Scrapple uses mashed corn. Mushier and not as good imho.

Well, without trying the other, part of what I enjoyed about scrapple is the contrast between the crispy outside and creamy inside (sounds foul I know). Is Goetta also flavored with a bit of sage and black pepper? What I didn't like is places that deep fry the scrapple vs pan frying, same can be said of crab cakes, what horror.

 

[briarbuck]

Well, without trying the other, part of what I enjoyed about scrapple is the contrast between the crispy outside and creamy inside (sounds foul I know). Is Goetta also flavored with a bit of sage and black pepper? What I didn't like is places that deep fry the scrapple vs pan frying, same can be said of crab cakes, what horror.

I am a big fan of corn mush.

You ought to give Goetta a go. I mix if 50/50 into burgers for the grill. They are amazing.

 

[puff_not_snuff]

I am a big fan of corn mush.

You ought to give Goetta a go. I mix if 50/50 into burgers for the grill. They are amazing.

That sounds ingenious. Some bar in Philadelphia invented a burger which contains a percentage of ground pork roll. Never managed to try that.

 

[anotherbob]

Although I'm not eating meat at the moment I've enjoyed pork roll in all its nitrate goodness many a times. Dare I ask how you feel about scrapple?

love scrapple but hate pork roll. Prok roll is for people that eat bacon and baloney and say if only the worst parts of both of these could get together and make an abomination.

 

[boston]

Scrapple sounds like dark meat spam. I don't care for spam, but scrapple...maybe. Not common up here in yankee land.

 

[puff_not_snuff]

Scrapple sounds like dark meat spam. I don't care for spam, but scrapple...maybe. Not common up here in yankee land.

Not similar at all actually. Spam is more like bologna or such and scrapple is more like a sausage with a grain (corn mush) filler.

Speaking of corn, this song is so catchy yet annoying.

 

[anotherbob]

Scrapple sounds like dark meat spam. I don't care for spam, but scrapple...maybe. Not common up here in yankee land.

Scrapple up in Yankee land is very regionally popular. The closer to Amish country the more scrapple. But in Amish country you'll find scrapple. It's on menus it's in the super market. And yeah scrapple is great. It's more of a sausage then scrapple is. Instead of being put in a animals intestines it's mixed with oats into a semi solid loaf. And the things is nobody hates the taste it's the texture or perceived cheapness of it that gets people. It's made from little pieces of meat that aren't as expensive because they're tiny like facial muscles instead of chops or other parts. So it's really a more rural thing that is made primarily by people that slaughter their own animals and are using the less marketable parts.

 

[puff_not_snuff]

Scrapple up in Yankee land is very regionally popular. The closer to Amish country the more scrapple. But in Amish country you'll find scrapple. It's on menus it's in the super market. And yeah scrapple is great. It's more of a sausage then scrapple is. Instead of being put in a animals intestines it's mixed with oats into a semi solid loaf. And the things is nobody hates the taste it's the texture or perceived cheapness of it that gets people. It's made from little pieces of meat that aren't as expensive because they're tiny like facial muscles instead of chops or other parts. So it's really a more rural thing that is made primarily by people that slaughter their own animals and are using the less marketable parts.

The name is pretty accurate and likely not a selling point but no where as graphic as "blood and tongue".