[rollei_list] OT: Scrapple and Haggis

At 12:08 PM 7/22/2008, Robert Lilley wrote:
>Nope I am in Wonderful Warren County - home of the forlorn and forgotten.
>We get scrapple with secret sauce.
I was raised eating Scrapple -- my Dad's Mom was Penn Dutch and so he had grown up eating it. I love the stuff. Scrapple's secret sauce, of course, is Karo Syrup. Enough cholesterol for a lifetime in every bite.
Years later, I discovered the joys of Haggis. When I made some on my own, I was surprised to discover the close nexus between Haggis and Scrapple. Haggis is a concoction built on oddball bits of sheep diced up with oats. Scrapple is the same, only with pig parts and corn-meal. Early Scottish immigrants to the Pennsylvania area couldn't find enough oats or sheep to make Haggis, so they settled on the closest thing, with pig meat and corn meal.
But, then, they also had to forego bag pipes and use fiddles to change Highland war songs such as, "Wake Johnny Cope o' the Mornin'" into Blue Grass. 

Marc


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