This post is about scrapple, not scrabble if you were reading quickly and are now disappointed. About scrapple, all you need to know is found in "On Scrapple", where you will be able to also find a recipe for porcupine.
It was National Scrapple Day on Nov. 9 and I missed it, probably because it was not a "national day" here. It is a big deal in Delaware near where I grew up on the Delmarva Peninsula. RAPA, named after Ralph and Paul Adams, is the biggest producer of scrapple. Like sausage it is typically eaten at breakfast. Like sausage, you do not need to know how it is made.
In my earlier post I tried to find out if I could get some scrapple in Canada, but could not. This is not necessarily a Canadian failure or a tariff problem. I searched again and used the scrapple locator on the RAPA webpage, but could not find any, even in nearby Detroit, Cleveland, Erie or Buffalo. Perhaps the city slickers there, like Canadians here, just don't know what they are missing and are mainly eating wings.
I will likely have breakfast at a pub on Saturday with a bunch of guys who play hockey and most will order bacon or ham because we don't have any scrapple. We do have hogs, however, and need to produce our own food because of the tariffs. If you know any pig farmers, tell them that they can get another product out of the pig and it tastes pretty darn good. As they say, you can use everything but the oink.
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