We were having a discussion on facebook as one of my friends wives are from Amish country out in Pennsylvania and actually found some at Publix here in Bama.

I want to know who to blame for this nasty horrible tasting crap!

Eat it? I can barely look at it.

They say scrapple uses every part of the pig except the squeal

I ate scrapple as a kid.

Gets I feel for ya buddy. I'll just stick to sausage and bacon, the shit that kills ya before 60

helenwheels you are right. Except in my mind the cook the squeal too

Dixie,

My buddies and I were raised literally in each other's homes..they ate with us, we ate with them.

When bacon and sausage are healthier alternatives than what's on your plate ......you might wanna reconsider eating it.

I have a thread in the food section about a pbs doc. called "Soul Food Junkies".

http://www.gangsterbb.net/threads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=782446#Post782446

I hope someone uploads the vid back to youtube so I can post it.

Forget Scrapple. But Publix is BY FAR my favorite supermarket in the country. They're literally all over Florida. You honestly can't drive five miles on US1 without seeing one. And I've never been in a bad one.

Again, it's my favorite store. There's a small one on Palmetto Park Road in Boca that I'd put up against any fancy supermarket in Manhattan, and I'm not exaggerating in the slightest.

I only wish they were up here. But if they were, they'd fuck it up anyway.

I'm a native Marylander, so naturally I LOVE scrapple. Living in California, scrapple is one of the things I miss most about home. I miss it almost as much as I miss my family!

Same here gets. I pretty much lived at my best friends house on the weekends. One because we got along, and two because he had all kinds of food that we didn't have at home. Then when we went hunting and fishing that just topped it off.

I agree pizza on Publix. They are good and not that many here. There is one 20 miles North of me and about 40 miles SW of me. They are more, but of course they have better stuff than say Wal-Mart or another for profit that buys the cheapest crap they can find to sell to us.

XDCX like Mike Rowe said when he done a Dirty Jobs at a scrapple plant, this was all the stuff the FDA wouldn't let you eat

I don't think I know what scrapple is.





TIS

I'm not sure you want to know TIS.

Scrapple is what the Spam factory throws away

TIS just google scrapple, you can decide for youself

Hey, Spam's a big part of the Hawaiian food culture. No bullshit. I have no idea why, but it is. Look it up.

When I go into cardiac mode, I enjoy a couple of sunny side up eggs on top of corned beef hash, especially if it's at a really good roadside diner. Not fancied up in an overdone diner pretending to be a restaurant.

Scrapple? Isn't he the old lady's lawyer in "Easy Money"?

When I saw this topic I thought it was a typo for Scrabble LOL. Never heard of scrapple before so I looked it up, and yes, it came from the Pennsylvania Dutch (actually Germans, but Americans wrote Dutch instead of Deutsch, but that's another story). The closest I came to it is when I'd eat menudo (intestines). Had Spam when I was kid and I had a Hawaiian friend who couldn't get enough of the stuff. Of course he weighed around 300 pounds, but he was happy.

Pizza it explains why most of those Samoans in Hawaii are huge like Faithful said. Yep Faithful all it is, is the leftover pieces of meat attached to bone, or the liver, heart, tongue and intestine and just cooked together with crap to make it half assed edible (like spices,etc.) then put together like a loaf and sliced and frozen. Of course a lot of people like Spam (I hate it too) and hot dogs which are basically the same kind of crap slapped together. I've gotten to where I don't care for hotdogs anymore unless it is a chili dog to kill some of the hot dog taste.

Scrapple is nasty, had it a few times down south somewhere.

Spam is Huge in Hawaii, had that once, it was not bad.

Thanks Mr. D. Equis,

Wow. It's a bit baffling that they've incorporated Spam of all things into their food culture. I'm gonna have to find an interview or online vid that explains it.
Lot of traditional cultures around the world love pork....but it's from their local pigs/boars.Haitians LOVE pork...for example and I'd guess Polynesians love pork too...but there is a big difference between pork from locally raised pigs and processed can meats like Spam.
Wouldn't be surprised if health issues have grown in their communities since they've added Spam to their diets.
I put up some vids before about the "Roseto effect" and how community of Italian Americans in PA. were healthier with less health issues than any other community and it was partly because they were growing and making their own food as much as possible and not eating superprocessed crap with nutrients taken out and chemicals added.

So I'm surprised that Hawaiians IN Hawaii have added the ultimate processed food,Spam, to their diets. I figured maybe Hawaiians who lived on mainland USA and couldn't get their local foods would do it ,but not the actual people there.WOW.

Pizza- US Health panel just ruled that eggs are OK after all. I got that report from my hospital. Also relating to Publix, don't you have a Wegmans in your neighborhood ??? They are making their way south from NY and are now as far south as the Quantico VA area, and they are hard to beat.

It's popular in Hawaii because it doesn't spoil without refrigeration, which was very important in the ww2 era.

Thanks....that makes sense..convenience

Spam lasts forever.....just don't lose the key



The SFJ doc. mentions that convenience comes at a price though.

I forgot about the key

Loads of it was shipped to the military bases on the islands at that time, and the locals acquired a taste for it through that.

I read something ages ago about how when the locals were banned from fishing because they might be working with the Japanese Spam became one of the ways the could get animal protein. They couldn't inter the locals with Japanese blood like they did in CA because there are too many, but they restricted things like fishing from boats to control contact with the enemy.

Scrapple is one of those foods that people won't eat if they know what it's made from prior to trying it. I grew up on the stuff so I didn't have that problem.

I've never had haggis, and I never will because I know what it's made from. The Scots seem to love it, though!

Thanks again,HW.

Interesting how the War impacted their diets ..and I bet that after the war...it was just more convenient to use Spam than to go catch,clean, and prepare fish.

Also interesting how things developed for military use...Spam,Tang....became part of civilian diets.

A couple of weeks ago I was watching a television programme about American food. They were making soulfood and at the end of the show they were cooking and eating something called "chitlins". Has anyone ever eaten that? I don't hope it tastes as horrible as it looks

The first and only time I had it was in high school, I puked halfway through the meal.

My Uncle used to cook chitlins. They smell horrible, but what else do you expect out of intestine and entrails?

Yeah from what was told in the show chitlins can actually taste okay for the first two bites, but after that, and especially when the aftertaste comes in, they can taste like shit. Literally

Pizza,

the same day you wrote that, the CEO of Whole Foods issued a public apology for OVERCHARGING customers for products in their NYC supermarkets.





Publix is the best , and WESTERN BEEF is the worst!!!!