There are few regional foods as polarizing as scrapple. People either passionately love it or vehemently detest it. (via EaterPhilly)
debate about our favorite local foods. I’ve seen alliances form over who sells the best hoagies, and friendships tested over where to find the ultimate cheesesteak. But there are few regional foods as polarizing as scrapple. People either passionately love it or vehemently detest it.
While it’s uncertain whether the word scrapple comes from scraps, the diner staple itself certainly does: It’s a waste-not, want-not food born of resourcefulness. And like its many relatives around the world — from chicken feet to tripe to perhaps scrapple’s closest American cousin, meatloaf — it can pass as a delicacy just as easily as it can a deterrent.
For me, scrapple is a diner ritual. I slide into a booth, get a hot coffee in a thick, white mug, and thumb through the lengthy menu, considering its many options only to order my usual: two eggs and home fries with a side of scrapple. I don’t even remember the first time I tried scrapple, or combined its savory saltiness with the runny yolk of my sunny side up eggs. It’s an implicit memory — a habit that brings me back to simpler times and the flavors of my youth.
It’s a comfort I go back to when I’m craving a sense of familiarity, especially in moments when I miss what Philadelphia used to be. So much in the city has changed over the years. Institutions have been knocked down to make way for high rises, and other landmarks face similarly uncertain futures. Some of my friends, newcomers to the city, never got to hear the 3 a.m.
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