Comments on: I Try It So You Don’t Have To: Scrapple

By: Barbara

Barbara — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:47:45 +0000

Nothing beats bacon as breakfast meat!

By: Youppi

Youppi — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:46:21 +0000

I love it! It’s made from the Best Stuff on earth!

oh wait, Scrapple?

By: Alice in Blunderland

Alice in Blunderland — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:02:48 +0000

Lemmonex — you HAVE to try scrapple with maple syrup. In fact, my advice would be to high-tail it over to Market Lunch, the hilarious soup-nazi-esque lunch counter at Eastern Market, and try their scrapple. With maple syrup. I promise you, heaven in every sweet and salty bite.

By: Lemmonex

Lemmonex — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:59:26 +0000

Way to sell me out, Ma! You wait until you are 80 and I am stuffing you in a home. I will have my revenge soon enough.

NOTHING is better than funnel cake. Ok, maybe carrot cake…

By: dhess

dhess — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:37:58 +0000

I LOVE LOVE LOVE scrapple, almost as much as I love funnel cake.

By: peeparazzi

peeparazzi — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:35:38 +0000

I still don’t think I will try scrapple but you really gave it an honest chance and I respect that. You are doing important (and hilarious) work for the good of the people. Thanks! Also, its not too late to check out the Apple Scrapple festival in Delaware. If you miss it, you might still make it to punkin chunkin however. Can’t wait to see what you write about next!!

By: MamaBear

MamaBear — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:25:34 +0000

And this from the girl that wouldn’t eat meat until 3 years old and then stopped eating it again at 15 years old until she went to college. It may taste ok, but I do tend to eat with my brain and get grossed out easily so I will not eat this! I do however want to thank-you for this review!

By: Hillary

Hillary — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:26:14 +0000

Haha, I like your intro paragraph, no organ goes to waste! But yet, we’re some of the most wasteful people I know.

By: marybindc

marybindc — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:09:53 +0000

I was glad that you tried this so I don’t have to, although I probably wasn’t going to anyway. No, definitely wasn’t going to.

By: WiB

WiB — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:31:34 +0000

I grew up in DE, and had the occasion to try scrapple when I was a kid. Wasn’t a big fan of it then, and even less so once I found out what it was.

What I realize now is that, the couple of times I’d tried it, I neve saw it in its original form, and seeing it now makes it even less appetizing. Before it clicked, I was sitting here wondering why you included that big block of granite in the picture….

By: Lemmonex

Lemmonex — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:21:17 +0000

I kinda love hot dogs. Sorry, LiLu and Eick. Particularly in the corn dog variety.

I have asked a few scrapple-eating friends about the jam. None have done this but said it could be tasty. Ya know how the sweet syrup on bacon is kinda awesome? I am imagining the same effect with scrapple and jam.

By: Pilluela

Pilluela — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:57:02 +0000

What’s the deal with people in Pennsylvania eating that stuff with jam on top? Would that taste good? I just remember being hungover and watching multiple people scopping big layers of jam onto the scrapple. Any clues on this?

By: Eick

Eick — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:53:05 +0000

I was never deterred by reports of what was or was not in hot dogs, but I reached a point pretty early in life where I decided the texture was kind of gross, and since hamburgers were available 80% of the places hot dogs were, that was the easy alternative.

I need to try Scrapple still though….

By: charlotteharris

charlotteharris — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:43:28 +0000

wow, you make scrapple not sound gross! now that is talent!

By: Shannon

Shannon — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:28:34 +0000

Hmmmm….pig butt.