I had it a lot as a kid. Mostly as a breakfast food fried up and served with eggs just as you would eat bacon or sausage. I don't remember it being particularly bad, but I can't say its something I'd voluntarily eat now.
Now...if that is the kind of pork roll you see a lot around PA and NJ then that is something else I grew up with. It is REALLY not a health food but people put it between a bun for a pork roll sandwich....with the pork roll being hot. You can get pork roll sandwiches at the Jersey shore from the food stalls. I liked them but it was really a regional thing I haven't seen many other places.
Tastes like well spam.
BTW still a very popular meat product in many areas. Specially in hawaii.
My nana gave me a church cookbook from her churchthat was put together the year I was born (1976). This is right in the middle of PA Dutch America and there is a recipe in it for 'Hawaiian Sweet and Sour' where the meat is spam..that is about as international as it got for them in '76..lol
I used to eat it as a kid. Put it on a bread with cheese and mustard, doesn?t taste that bad. The disgusting part is when you open the can. It?s preserved with a greasy gel that you will want to wipe off before consuming.
I don't remember eating it much as a kid, but I do remember that slimy gel... ewwwwwww
Of course you can tell who is from the Philly area and who isn't by how they react to the word 'Scrapple'.
I grew up in NJ.
I love pork roll egg and cheese sandwiches. You can buy Taylor Pork roll at most supermarkets in the south.
Spam is ok, I haven't had it in ten years.
But scrapple is just fucking disgusting.
Spam is the shit they will not put in hot dogs, and scrapple is the shit they will not put in spam. So scrapple must be the shit they sweep up off the floor at the slaughterhouse.
I love pork roll egg and cheese sandwiches. You can buy Taylor Pork roll at most supermarkets in the south.
Spam is ok, I haven't had it in ten years.
But scrapple is just fucking disgusting.
Spam is the shit they will not put in hot dogs, and scrapple is the shit they will not put in spam. So scrapple must be the shit they sweep up off the floor at the slaughterhouse.
I have to admit to liking scrapple..especially with a little bit of syrup. It is no worse than a hotdog. Of course since I live in the UK so I have it maybe once a year when I go back home. Nobody over here has even hard of pork roll like that. I didn't live that far from the Hatfield meat plant so all those products were everywhere. It is probably a good thing for the diet I don't live back home.
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