[Sca-cooks] Scrapple???

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On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 15:35:48 -0400 you wrote:
> Deep fried, pan fried or baked.  Any way, it smells about the same.
> And, I've smelled both the cheap stuff that diners get and the homemade
> stuff from my grandfather and lots that I'm sure was in between.  Bleck.
>   Of course, objectional odor is totally personal.  We could be smelling
> the exact same things.  I despised it for years before I found out what
> went into it.  The "real" stuff isn't scary in terms of ingredients,
> just strange by some standards ("Boil the pigs head.  Scrape off
> everything that rises to the top of the kettle...")  But, commercially,
> it's the breakfast version of hot dogs.
>
> -Magdalena

What you're describing sounds more like headcheese or souse than scrapple.
Scrapple, according to my family and Jeff Smith is a meat enriched grits dish,
aka to some as "cornmeal mush."  Always smells like Fritos to me.

Liadan