Why I hate the south

[Forkboy]

SCRAPPLE!

That shit is just wrong!

:evilgrin:

on edit-just in case anyone else comes along and doesn't bother to read the thread to see that I'm joking..I'm joking.In fact,if you could remove the heat and the bugs I'd love the south.Catwoman lives in the south,how could I hate anyplace that has one of my favorite DUers?

[foo_bar]

1. I thought that was a Pennsylvania thing

[TreasonousBastard]

7. AFIK it is...

and I know a rightwingnut just north of Philly who just loves the stuff.

He tells the story of a huge pan of scrapple with a long, white, string in it...

"Oh, that's a snout. They don't alway grind up."

(Next, we can trash Norwegians over lutefisk.)

[Forkboy]

11. Dont even get me started on lutefisk!

:D

[JVS]

25. Lutefisk can be good, if prepared properly.

Many people make it incorrectly and assume that all lutefisk is bad. Lutefisk requires patient and loving hands to prepare it. I once took some leftover Xmas Lutefisk to the dorms and gave it to a friend, he thought is was delicious.

[TreasonousBastard]

26. Lutefisk is the food of the angry gods.

There was once a great Tolkien Parody called "Ole and Sven and the Lutefisk of Doom," but the Angelfire site is down, and I gave up googling it.

If anyone finds it again, it was fun.

Lutefisk and scrapple, man, hell of a way to get rid of the inlaws.

[JVS]

15. Lutefisk is also Swedish

I know from bitter experience.

[Bake]

2. What the crap is SCRAPPLE????

I'm from the South and I don't know what the heck you're talking about.

Bake

[Dirty Hippie]

4. Here's your answer

Plain Old Pennsylvania Dutch Scrapple



1/2 pound chopped raw pork
1-1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper
1 cup corn meal 1 medium onion, chopped
1- 1/4 quarts water


Brown onion slowly in a little fat. Add meat, seasoning and water. Cook at simmering point 20 minutes.

Add corn meal and cook over medium heat for one hour. Turn into loaf pan and cool.

Cut in slices and fry in fat until brown. Serve with gravy or tomato sauce.


"It's dictionary defined as "cornmeal mush made with the meat and broth of pork, seasoned with onions, spices and herbs and shaped into loaves for slicing and frying." The word, scrapple originates from "scrap" or "scrappy" meaning made up of odds and ends for that's exactly what it is - boiled, ground leftover pig scraps with cornmeal and spices thrown in. Scrapple lovers think of it as food for the gods. Anti-scrapplers consider it a culinary abomination."

[Forkboy]

9. Ok

the thread should be "Why I hate Pennsylvania!" :)

Actually I had it in Virginia...to me that's south :shrug:

[TreasonousBastard]

10. That's the "clean" recipe

Real scrapple is all the parts you can't sell. There's snouts, tongues, ovaries, testicles...

[Ohio Dem]

21. If you used pork loin instead of "scraps"

that doesn't sound too bad.

[Forkboy]

5. I have no idea

but it tastes like cow dung mixed with snot and testicles,then dipped in vomit and fried.

[JVS]

19. I don't know just what is in it

But my mom was telling me about an old cookbook she read the other day. To make scrapple the first step is to take a pig's head and remove the eyes. :puke:

[TreasonousBastard]

31. You eat the eyes seperately...

they are a delicacy in some parts. Preferably raw.

They don't grind up very well and ruin the scrapple.

[mapster]

3. Scrapple isn't southern

Are you sure you don't mean grits or some such thing?

[Dirty Hippie]

6. Hey now...

grits are a beautiful thing. I was "raised up" on em'

[TreasonousBastard]

14. I'll agree that grits is good stuff,

but I just want to know who first had the bright idea of washing corn in lye?

And then who was the first hungry enough to eat it?

[Dirty Hippie]

23. Like the question

who ever ate the first oyster?

[Clete]

28. Who ate the first escargot?

These are really disgusting critters.

[Clete]

8. Actually if you call grits polenta

then it is no longer southern but Italian.

[Forkboy]

16. Grits aren't so hot either

it's like oatmeal gone horribly wrong!

[Bake]

24. Man, grits with red-eye gravy is the BEST!!

And country ham and biscuits... it just doesn't get any better than that!!

Bake

[Dirty Hippie]

29. grits

are not eaten with the same condiments as oatmeal, Salt, pepper butter cheese if you like and served with fried eggs or better yet, fried fish.

My father called grits Georgia Ice Cream.

[JVS]

12. Scrapple is Amish/ Pennsylvania Dutch and yes it is an abomination

That is Eastern PA by the way. Out west we prefer Kielbasa as our processed meat product.

[Forkboy]

17. Now kielbasa

is a real meat! :thumbsup:

[Dirty Hippie]

13. I you want ot hate the south

based on a culinary abomination why not rag on Hogs Head Cheese!

Yep... made from a hogs head! Saw my grandma make it when I was a kid.

Or how about Chittlin's - Pork intestines - Yum!

[Clete]

18. Scrambled eggs and brains,

or boiled tripe, yum. :puke: Dad's favorite from home town Little Rock.

[Forkboy]

20. eeew

sounds appetizing :puke:

I think my wife,who'se from Ohio,likes chitlins.If so it may time for a divorce :D

[Bake]

33. Chitlins!

If you ever smelled chitterlings (yes, that's the correct full spelling) being prepared, you'd never eat again. And I mean, never eat ANYTHING!

Not all Southerners eat chitlins! (And whothehell came up with that name?)

Bake

[Dirty Hippie]

39. I heard about a guy

making a fortune in Atlanta with a drive through resturant that serves chitlins. The cars wrap around the block.

[Dirty Hippie]

40. Well! Here is the Skinny on Chitlins

(The things you learn on DU!)

As the story goes, chitlins were served to slaves as the discards of the pig, after the slave masters took all the best parts. Forget about the ham, bacon, pork chops and loins. What we got was the ears, feet and chitlins. Since they were considered slave food, some African Americans consider them demeaning or offensive, and refuse to eat them. For the same reason, some Black folks are closet chitlin eaters. They love them, but don't want people to know, and wouldn’t be caught dead ordering them in public. But, don’t make the mistake of thinking chitlins are an African American dish.
Chitlins are also very popular among Southern whites, who consider them part of Southern cooking.
Chitlins are also part of Cajun cooking. Andouille sausage is made from chitlins and tripe.
Mexicans eat chitlins in a spicy, tomato-based soup .
Hungarians use chitlins as casing and stuffing for sausages.
Chitlin sausages are also a delicacy in France.
And, Chitlins can be found in certain Asian dishes.

[DemBones DemBones]

22. Well, people who hate the South usually have crazy reasons but

hating the South because someone served you a food that originated in PENNSYLVANIA takes the cake!

:wow: :wow: :wow:

[Forkboy]

30. It was a joke oh humor impaired one

I figured the big :evilgrin: might be a tipoff,but I guess I was wrong :eyes:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

34. It was why I hated the Poconos

:puke:

[angka]

27. the south is still populated?

that amazes me. do you know there's actually a place called lost gap, mississippi?

from what i read sherman burned most of it, but later on it kinda came back or whatever. then there's tex-ass. do they still show those 'it's a whole other country' tourism commercials? those kind of make me chuckle, then i get sad because i realize texas is not really a whole other country.

[Wwagsthedog]

32. Different chow

Lucky me, I got to eat an eyeball at an Arabic goat grab once. My advise, if you're ever so honored, is to swallow it whole and quickly then eat or drink something you think is good and don't dwell on the eye anymore. Chitlins and grits would be good but my then current hosts didn't know about them or have pork products around. Remember, all things will pass.

[MRDU]

35. You meant Snapple, Didn't you?

If a consumer buys a Snapple, VolksWagen or an Audi in the Middle East, they've bought it from the bin Ladens, who have the exclusive franchise on the brands. The bin Laden family business employs 32,000 people in 30 countries, has a revenue of $5 billion a year and is invested everywhere from construction to manufacturing to financial services to insurance to biological research

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/business/DailyNews/WTC_binladen_money_011001.html

[Forkboy]

36. Snapple?

too fruity!

[JVS]

37. If you buy a BMW you support the Quandt family

Which happens to be the family from which Goebbels' wife came.

[MRDU]

38. And scrapple?

Too Brainy?

[Forkboy]

41. precisely!

:)

[MRDU]

42. But, Brains is the bestest part! N/T

[angee_is_mad]

43. JOKING?

Well, I'm glad to know that you were JOKING!  I was getting
ready to go off, Black Southern Belle style! lol  Be afraid,
be very afraid!!!!
                          JUST JOKING!!!!!!

[Must_B_Free]

44. I ate it - it's good

There was even a band in the town named "Fresh Country Scrapple". This was in State College PA, in the center of PA.

Scrapple is formed into a block, like cheese. It it a light grey in color. It is sliced and fried, then served with maple syrup. When you try it, you too want to eat more delicious hot fresh scrapple.

[bowens43]

45. Have to agree.

I moved to North Carolina from Ohio several years ago and I have to tell you, there are THINGS in the meat department at the grocery store that I can't or won't identify. Things this northerner would never consider putting in his mouth. Some are completely unidentifiable, some appear to be things like pig tails, snouts and ears.

That being said.....

I'm a Yankee by birth, a southerner by choice.

[morningglory]

46. Pardon me...

I am up late with insomnia and was just watching the public tv show about the Donner party. They would have adored a bit of scrapple.