Browsing the aisles of his local ghetto supermarket, daveb noticed an unfamiliar product in the refrigerator aisle. Arnold’s Beef Scrapple, a blocklike slab of reputedly meat ingredients that looked like something along the lines of dirty tofu. What the flying fuck is Scrapple? It looks like ass and is dangerously reminiscent of the foods old people and scary peasants eat, What could it be? Reluctantly, daveb replaced the mystery meat product and continued on with his browsing.

As the day wore on into the evening, daveb’s thoughts could not help returning, over and over to that strange package of processed meat. Who would name food “scrapple”. Is it scraps of apples and crap? Is it fed to children as punishment? Something along the lines of “You best do your chores sonny, or it’s a spoonful of scrapple for you, m’boy!”? If you smear scrapple on your nipples whilst reciting the Lord’s prayer backwards, are you cured of shingles? Does the pope eat scrapple and if so, is that why he’s so fucked up lately? WTF?

The questions stayed with daveb till finally, he had no choice but to embark on a full fledged googling. Interestingly enough, there are many websites that appropriate the name scrapple, but are not actually concerning the scary-ass shit he saw in the supermarket. Checking Wikipedia actually turned up and entry.

Scrapple is one of those farm foods invented to use those parts of slaughtered food animals which were not suitable to be served on their own, in the same manner as sausages, or Jewish kishkes. Scrapple typically contains the meaty parts of hog heads, hearts, some liver, and other scraps. The proportion and spicing is very much a matter of the region, family, and the cook’s taste.

Commercial scrapple will often contain these traditional ingredients, with a distinctive flavor to each brand, though homemade recipes often specify more genteel ingredients, and consequently a blander taste.

Of course you realize that now daveb has no choice but to consume scrapple till it comes out his ears and he feels like crapple. More to come…