Not likely, unless we were at the same football game when BHS played Dumont High! Each little town is pretty much its own complete circle. Unless you go to church in the next town over, work after school in a different town, or go to parochial school, you hardly meet kids from other towns.
I left in the 70s. All of our visits since have been short and sweet -- due in large part to the price of hotels in the area!
sue
A good scrapple, in my opinion, is made with buckwheat flour and not cornmeal. With buckwheat, the scrapple holds its shape better while frying. All the cornmeal scrapples I've tried crumble into little bits, and you can't get a good crispy outside like scrapple should have. When I was growing up our scrapple came from a small local butcher, but R&R Provisions in Easton, Pennsylvania make a fine buckwheat scrapple. My father brings a pound out to me every visit, along with my treasured pork roll.
As to using the leftover bits of the pig, well, my ancestors have been making/eating scrapple for 250 years and it didn't send any of them to an early grave! People turn their noses up at meats made up of left-over cow/pig parts, yet will rush to eat shrimp and crabs and the like, which eat whatever ends up on the ocean floor dead, decaying, or doused in garbage and sewage! Give me good clean scrapple any day!
Melody, scrapple connoisseur
Aynthem wrote: > eat shrimp and crabs and the
Miss Kitty knows some shrimp came home from the store this afternoon. Did she put you up to this to persuade me to put the icky shrimpies on her plate instead?
Because it's not going to work!
P.S. There will be shrimp cocktail with tomorrow's Mets game. Who's coming over to join me?
{Applause} I won't touch seafood for that reason. Then again, I grew up knowing the pet name of the pig/cow on the dinner table.
I lived in Montvale from 1966-1973.
Sara, former Jersey girl
Another one!
Cheryl
Well, if we're there, maybe I'll let DH have some scrapple
LOL - personally, I'm not much for eating any scavenger kind of stuff. But, that's me and the dietary way I was raised. I'm not a very good meat eater, and just don't do well with many of the, umm, sausage kind of things that are made with all the bits - so to speak. But, if you've found something that you like - good enough.
ellice
Now you are on my stomping grounds. I live just 10 miles away in Allentown. Been over the 'free bridge' many a time in my misspent youth.
Any good PA Dutch knows how to squeeze that nickle (buffalo variety) until it Scheiße and then uses that for fertilizer.
Nothing wasted, AK in PA
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