Comment on What is the most beloved food from where you live, and what's the most divisive?
Akasazh@lemmy.world 1 week agoScrapple sounds a bit like Dutch Balkenbrij.
O wait, according to the wiki it is related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkenbrij
anon6789@lemmy.world 1 week ago
That is neat seeing the “Old World” version of it! It seems to be the filler is one of the key differences. Scrapple has cornmeal, while Balkenbrij looks to usually have wheat or buckwheat. The wiki says barley is common in Germany, and my neighbors in Ohio make goetta that uses steel cut or pinhead oats.
I asked my wife if she’d eat scrapple with raisins as mentioned in the wiki, and she puts jelly on her scrapple so she said it didn’t sound bad.
I’ll still take a pass due to the mystery meat, but I feel I should make my own with meat that doesn’t ick me out someday so I can try it. Plenty of people seem to love it, and I’m glad our ancestors found a seemingly tasty way to make the best out of the worst! 😄
Akasazh@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yeah I’m not overly fond of the stuff, yet I have friends being very enthusiastic about it. So definitely divisive, and a bit Dutch.