Sustainable food advocates should celebrate National Scrapple Day

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Sustainable food advocates should celebrate National Scrapple Day

Today is National Scrapple Day, and if you’re already thinking “eeeeeewwwwww,” stop. Scrapple may not be pretty and it may not be healthy. But it’s a great, old-school example of nose-to-tail cooking, and sustainability advocates should embrace it. Meat’s not exactly the most energy-efficient form of sustenance. So if people are going to eat meat, they should eat every last bit of it that they can. Scrapple definitely fits the bill : Per chef Andrew Little of Sheppard Mansion in Hanover, Pennsylvania, “Scrapple is affectionately known as ‘everything but the squeal.’ It is traditionally a loaf made with the leftover bits of the butchering of hogs. Spices and buckwheat flour are added while the pork is cooking, and the entire mix is poured into loaf pans to chill and set.” OK, it’s not the most appetizing when you think about it that way. Serious Eats has a better way to wra...

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@josh_groft » 12 Nov '12, 1pm
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@Beccbrown » 12 Nov '12, 1pm
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@SummerStarCoop » 12 Nov '12, 1pm
Nothing wrong with a little scrapple "@grist: Sustainable food advocates should celebrate National Scrapple Day [link]"
@rickdowlearn » 12 Nov '12, 1pm
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@PaigeHumecki » 12 Nov '12, 6am
@BrentHumecki This made me think of you. RT @grist Sustainable food advocates should celebrate National Scrapple Day [link]
@Mavegyver » 12 Nov '12, 5am
Did you know that today is national Scrapple day? [link] #food #fact
@juliemaccartee » 10 Nov '12, 3am
Via @grist If you crave a fried polenta-like creation brimming with porky character, today's your day [link] #scrapple
@jsims11 » 10 Nov '12, 3am
@ItsAmesYall “@grist: If you crave a fried polenta-like creation brimming with porky character, today's your day [link]”
@grist » 10 Nov '12, 3am
If you crave a fried polenta-like creation brimming with porky character, today's your day [link]
@watsdn » 09 Nov '12, 9pm
Speaking as a PA-Dutchy, I care abt sustainability but not enough to eat scrapple, which is only edible doused in syrup [link]
@NCntryRambler » 09 Nov '12, 8pm
Parts is Parts RT @grist: Sustainable food advocates should celebrate National Scrapple Day [link]
@eilfretz » 09 Nov '12, 8pm
Hey @DawsDelmarva RT @drgrist: Happy National Scrapple Day! [link]
@ornithologypsy » 09 Nov '12, 7pm
I'd take this over spam anyday. RT @grist: Sustainable food advocates should celebrate National Scrapple Day [link]
@GPollowitz » 09 Nov '12, 7pm
Everything but the squeal RT @grist: Sustainable food advocates should celebrate National Scrapple Day [link]
@jchambers911 » 09 Nov '12, 7pm
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@AbbyHeverin » 09 Nov '12, 7pm
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Sustainable food advocates should celebrate National Scrapple Day [link]