Yeah, kinda like if the northeast was worth anything we'd pull our trailers up there - they are mobile, you know.

Anyway, it don't take a refined taste to eat pancakes and maple syrup - only a sweet tooth - and only one tooth at that. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/notooth.gif" alt="" /> Now sausage - that takes at least 2 teeth. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/oink.gif" alt="" />

And until you've eaten shrimp & grits or a good shrimpburger, you just don't know what the heck you're talkin' about anyway. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" />

Frank <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/cheers.gif" alt="" />

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what the heck's Scrapple?

Frank, I think the missing tooth thing is a bit misplaced. lol <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/notooth.gif" alt="" />

Up here, we really don't have any food that is solely our own anyway. I mean, there is tons of ethnic stuff like polish food and italian, etc...but nothing like the stuff down south.

I'd like to ask a question though:
And I'm really asking this because I'm truly curious; there is no joke in the works, I just wonder what the Southerner's take on it is.

One thing about the South that has puzzled me over the years is this obsession with the civil war.
We in the North give so little thought to it, that it ranks down there with one of those obscure footnotes in history when asked about it. And yet down south you guys act like it is the thing that defines your whole existance. At least that is how it appears.

I know that because most of the war was fought down there, it is more relevant, but we have tons of monuments and battlefields around here from the Revelutionary War and yet, most lifelong residents pass them by on the highway everyday going to work, without so much as a glance. And it certainly isn't something we continue to spar with England about.

Is it because the North won? If so, thats a long time to hold a grudge! <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

I like grits? I also love liver mush, and scraple, fried frog-legs, love my greens, and on and on. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/notooth.gif" alt="" />

If I could do it all over again I would have gone to school in the south. I grew up spending every summer in the Blue Ridge Mountains camping, or crabbing and fishing in the Chesapeake.

Being in New England makes me twitch, and I thought NJ was bad. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

scrapple (skr&#259;p'&#601;l) pronunciation
n.

A mush of ground pork and cornmeal that is set in a mold and then sliced and fried.


We have it here in central PA. The <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/notooth.gif" alt="" /> love it. Myself <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/barf.gif" alt="" />

I have been all over this country, and there's redneck every were

Don't ask me how my family happened to get into scrapple, but I love it. Southern pickled version = souse, hog-head cheese.

Civil War - thing. I really don't know. People still can tell I'm "a foreigner" even though I've been down here since '67. Had some tree cutters from Illinois ask where I was from originally. It was funny 'cause I was born at the Naval Hospital in Great Lakes.

Civil War guess - the south was so rich before the war and then became destitute afterward.

I did get mad at the U.S. government after Katrina and pulled down liberty & put up the stars & bars. Act of defiance.

Personally, I prefer Revolutionary War history.

I have a question, what is meant when someone calls someone a "cracker"?

cracker is a term back from the days of slavery, refering to the man cracking the whip, aka the master <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />.
msblue, can you post the receipe for this "scrapple"? it sounds disgustingly tasty to me for some reason.

I thought "crackers" were a breed of honkeys that fall between "redneck" and "hillbilly"? <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" /> Cracker was the name I was most often called for a couple years when I lived in Kentucky. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/shiner.gif" alt="" />

I'll never tell. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />


All part of the master plan. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

Grits "are" good eating, man...plural, you know.

i thought that master plan was mr.guys ufo issues, and how do the grits fit into it? are grits the secret to interstellar travel? <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/nana.gif" alt="" />

I have never made it, only purchased and cooked it.

I will do my best to now describe the scrapple that I love. Imagine all the parts in spam. Now imagine all the parts that the spam factory throws away. They grind it all up with cornmeal and it is pressed and congealed into a square block.

This is what it looks like before it is cooked.

You slice it into pieces and fry it on both ends until it is nice and crispy.