I came here for an argument

In reply to Old_Town :

There isn't any German Sausage or Spam on this list

bobzilla said:

Antihero (Forum Supporter) said:

Also, IPAs are terrible

Thank you so much for this. I think they've gotten to thepoint that it's a contest to see who's brew has the most hoppiest hop hops in the hopsland. 

Exactly.

I also think it's a perverse game. "Lets see if they'll drink this E36 M3!" Basically.

I have had people say that they threw up after drinking an IPA for the first time....but learned to like it later. WTF

Duke said:

For those not in the know, this is scrapple:

 

1)  IT'S GREY - I mean look at it

2)  It's basically made of all the animal byproduct crap that's not good enough to be hot dogs

3)  Because it has a lot of organ tissue, it stinks and is tough

4)  The chopped up offal is mixed with coarse cornmeal and lard, so it tastes and feels like you fried your driveway

5)  Even people who like scrapple can only eat it by frying a slice until it is nearly incinerated and then drowning it in ketchup, pancake syrup, or both

 

Why would you willingly eat that?

bobzilla said:

Just looked up scrapple. I'd try it. Cant be an worse than that crap Aussie's eat, Vegimite. That stuff makes spam look like a hamburger.

I actually don't mind Vegemite but you have to use very little. A lot of people seem to think you put it on like a peanut butter sandwich level of product. That makes it horrid.

Having said that, its a "rarely" sort of thing for me. Which is good because you can't get it in America anyway

CJ (FS) said:

Peabody said:

Duke said:

For those not in the know, this is scrapple:

1)  IT'S GREY - I mean look at it

2)  It's basically made of all the animal byproduct crap that's not good enough to be hot dogs

3)  Because it has a lot of organ tissue, it stinks and is tough

4)  The chopped up offal is mixed with coarse cornmeal and lard, so it tastes and feels like you fried your driveway

5)  Even people who like scrapple can only eat it by frying a slice until it is nearly incinerated and then drowning it in ketchup, pancake syrup, or both

So much for the positives, does it have any downside?

Apparently people have eaten it and not died immediately.

They wish they had, but they didn't.

Surprisingly, a search for "scrapple-related suicide" turns up few results. There must be a conspiracy or something.

Duke said:

In reply to dropstep :

Well, I'll really gross you out. Steak should be rare and hamburgers medium rare. 
 

Yeah I won't eat if my dads eating steak because his is rare. Good news is I avoid steakhouses with people just because of this reason 

Scrapple was good on a snowy morning as a kid. 

Not sure as an adult. 

I also liked pickled pigs feet, fatback, and cracklin. Not sure now. 

And steaks are pointless past medium rare. 

Antihero (Forum Supporter) said:

bobzilla said:

Antihero (Forum Supporter) said:

Also, IPAs are terrible

Thank you so much for this. I think they've gotten to thepoint that it's a contest to see who's brew has the most hoppiest hop hops in the hopsland. 

Exactly.

 

I also think it's a perverse game. "Lets see if they'll drink this E36 M3!" Basically.

 

I have had people say that they threw up after drinking an IPA for the first time....but learned to like it later. WTF

There are a small number of IPAs I don't mind - usually brewed in the UK in a style to replicate what an IPA was originally meant to be: a beer that could survive the trip from the UK around Africa to India - a roughly 6 month trip with no refrigeration - without going bad  Extra hops were added as a perservative. The Scottish brand Innis & Gunn makes a really good version of this called the "Toasted Oak IPA" where they brew the beer and then age it in virgin oak barrels for 6 months. 

American IPA styles, however...   with most of those I have trouble getting past the aroma of cat piss... 

It's amusing sometimes... despite being from Georgia, I've rarely had scrapple or grits.  My father (from VA) didn't care for them and my mother (from CT) didn't grow up with them.

Cold steaks suck.... fire good. With that said I do prefer them medium with salt and pepper and a little butter melted on top.

To add another data point to the argument: We got stromboli tonight. It looked like this.

And it was delicious.

Had some Bell’s Two Hearted IPA with it, which was also tasty. I’m not usually an ipa fan but sometimes that stuff hits the spot.

02Pilot said:

preach (fs) said:

Scrapple- Nope.

This unimpeachable truth shouldn't even need to be mentioned among civilized company. But given some of the things I've read in this thread, maybe it's good you stated it explicitly.

 

Ok... now we're fighting 

Do you really know what scrapple is?  I used to make it with my uncle.  When we butchered hogs, he would have the boilers ready.  He took a steel barrel cut in half (down the center to make two troughs) and welded on some legs.  You fill them with water and light a wood fire under them.  As you butcher, you throw things in the barrel of boiling water.  Specifically, the bones with pieces of meat left on them, some chunks of meat that aren't otherwise useful (cheeks, lower parts of the legs, upper neck meat, etc). You also put in a liver or two and (depending on the farmer's recipe) a heart or two.  Most of the organ meat you wouldn't feed to yourself when it is valuable as food for livestock. You boil it while you butcher, then at the end of the day you pull out the bones, throw in a handful of salt and a bit of pepper, then throw in cornmeal.

It's bone broth with meat trimmings and cornmeal.  It's basically sausage and grits together.  If you think scrapple is worse than the lips, buttholes, kidneys, intestines, lungs, and actual colon WITH IT'S STERILIZED VEGETABLE CONTENTS, you get in your hot dog, you're a special kind of crazy.  Do a search for what's actually in a hot dog and most of them have zero meat... as in no muscle tissue.  They are bone, connective tissue, organs, blood vessels, fat tissue, skin, blood, and (from a 2015 study by the FDA) 

2 percent of hot dog samples contained human DNA.

Don't get me wrong, I love a good hot dog, but tomorrow morning I will have some Amish-made scrapple for breakfast.

In reply to Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) :

Still-Nope.

Oh, and by the way... if you ever look at a label and see "mechanically separated [insert animal]" you should know that what you are getting is, um, everything else.

In a chicken processing plant for instance, they take the good stuff.  In the case of whole chickens, they gut it and throw the guts in a bin.  In the case of chicken breasts, thighs, legs, etc, they take what they need and throw the carcass in a bin.  That bin of carcasses and guts, bones and all, goes into a machine that grinds it into a paste.

It makes some of my favorite foods, like deviled ham, hot dogs, and McNuggets

In reply to Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) :

WHY ARE YOU WASTING THE GOOD MEAT?!?!?!?

Cheeks are the best part of any animal, and you're just throwing them into the waste pile? Did you at least keep the ocular muscle to fry up?

In reply to Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) :

I stand by my description. 
 

Hey, look!  Scrapple.  Another topic we can all agree upon.