What's that weird food called that they eat in Dover Delaware?
I stayed in Dover Delaware years ago and was introduced to a breakfast food that the locals raved about. I forget what it's called and I can't for the life of me find the name of it. It's comparable to scrapple, but it's not scrapple. I have vivid memories from when I visited of people there saying they hated scrapple, but they loved this other mystery-meaty stuff.
Anyone know what I'm talking about? I remember people saying the best way to cook it was to cut it thin and cook it like bacon.
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Since it wasn't scrapple, it may have been Spam, sliced and fried.
For the uninitiated, scrapple is made of pig parts, corn meal, and spices, not unlike sausage, and has been produced in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States since the early days of the colonies.
Similarly, Spam is the brand of a canned product, made of cooked meats (pork, ham, whatever else). As scrapple is the iconic food product of Delaware, Spam is that of Hawaii, so popular that it's sometimes referred to as 'The Hawaiian Steak.'
Spam has been around since the 1930's, and became so ubiquitous that it inspired the Monty Python sketch as tasting horrible, inescapable and led to the name being used for junk, unsolicited email.
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"Other dishes considered and rejected: The official state food is the peach pie, a symbol of the state's small but well-loved northerly peach crop. Also: dilly crab dip, broiled chicken and biscuits, creamed-corn pudding, muddle fish stew. Delaware's a little wild," the weekly said.What is scrapple food?
Let's go right to the ingredients label of the late Josh Ozersky's favorite, Habbersett Scrapple (a Pennsylvania classic since 1863, though the company has been Wisconsin-owned since 1985): It features pork stock, pork, pork skins, cornmeal, wheat flour, pork hearts, pork livers, pork tongues, salt, and spices.Minecraft wait what meme part 260 (Six arm Scary Alex)
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Answer 2
This tripadvisor review of the Hotel du Pont refers to a room service breakfast "of cream chipped beef with scrapple" (which) "is not to be missed".
I don't see the room service menu, but the their Green Room restaurant only shows creamed beef on the breakfast menu.
Looks like a fancy place. I'd be tempted to use the military term for this dish shit-on-a-shingle.
Answer 3
Speculative, since I've only ever been to Delaware twice and never breakfasted out there, but googling suggests (via http://www.onlyinyourstate.com/delaware/iconic-delaware-foods/ ) Cream Chipped Beef, which is "Dried beef in white sauce, poured over toast usually". Wikipedia asserts (my emphases)
Chipped beef is served in many diners and restaurants in the United States as a breakfast item. Creamed chipped beef is standard fare on many such diner menus, especially in the Mid-Atlantic, but has become harder to find in chain restaurants that serve breakfast
Answer 4
Head cheese or better known as souse! Only thing people confuse scrapple for!
Answer 5
It could be Canadian bacon, but I'm gonna guess it was pork roll.
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