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Nah I was asking the guy who went to the diner in NJ :-).
I do know where Santorini's is...what used to be there? When you first posted I thought you were trying to say that Santorini's was a diner, and I was going to respond that I thought the Acropolis down the road could probably be considered a Greek-type diner and isn't bad. But I think you were just pointing out that Santorini's was Greek...and as you mentioned it definitely looks fancier than Acropolis
Nah I was asking the guy who went to the diner in NJ :-).
I do know where Santorini's is...what used to be there? When you first posted I thought you were trying to say that Santorini's was a diner, and I was going to respond that I thought the Acropolis down the road could probably be considered a Greek-type diner and isn't bad. But I think you were just pointing out that Santorini's was Greek...and as you mentioned it definitely looks fancier than Acropolis
Sorry I wasn't clear. I agree with you about the Acropolis. I suppose the only thing that would not qualify the Acropolis as a diner would be the lack of a counter to eat on with the chairs that swivel.
I was in NJ this week and had the opportunity to eat at a diner off the turnpike. Their menu had absolutely everything you could imagine on it...I had a 1/2 chicken, 2 sides, salad and a drink for $11.00 and it was great food!
When I travel north, I often stop in a town called Jervis which is where N.J., N.Y., and Pa. meet. It is a truck stop that someone had told me about earlier. You can get anything from anywhere there since they have truckers from all over that patronize the place. When there, I asked for livermush just to see if they had it. The waitress said, "No, but we have the yankee equivalent." It was scrappel. I ordered it and liked it. Great place to stop if heading north up #77 to #81 way.
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When I travel north, I often stop in a town called Jervis which is where N.J., N.Y., and Pa. meet. It is a truck stop that someone had told me about earlier. You can get anything from anywhere there since they have truckers from all over that patronize the place. When there, I asked for livermush just to see if they had it. The waitress said, "No, but we have the yankee equivalent." It was scrappel. I ordered it and liked it. Great place to stop if heading north up #77 to #81 way.
Scrapple is PA Dutch. It's big in Lancaster Co., Philadelphia, & South Jersey. It's not widespread. You can also find it in DE & MD, but other than those places, the only places that you're likely to see it in the north is near Amish settlements. South Jersey & Philly diners serve omlets with an option od hash browns, home fries, or scrapple.
Scrapple is PA Dutch. It's big in Lancaster Co., Philadelphia, & South Jersey. It's not widespread. You can also find it in DE & MD, but other than those places, the only places that you're likely to see it in the north is near Amish settlements. South Jersey & Philly diners serve omlets with an option od hash browns, home fries, or scrapple.
I hope this is happy information, but you can buy scrapple in local grocery stores. It is in Harris Teeter for one. I believe that the grocery part of Walmart has it too. I'm not sure if any restaurants serve it, but with all of the northerners here, they should soon if not now.
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I hope this is happy information, but you can buy scrapple in local grocery stores. It is in Harris Teeter for one. I believe that the grocery part of Walmart has it too. I'm not sure if any restaurants serve it, but with all of the northerners here, they should soon if not now.
Ingles sells Jenkins scrapple. It's made with rice. Real PA Dutch scrapple is made with cornmeal.
Did the truck stop give you maple syrup with your scrapple? My parents grew up in Michigan during the Depression. They ate fried mush a lot. It's like scrapple without the pig parts.
Ingles sells Jenkins scrapple. It's made with rice. Real PA Dutch scrapple is made with cornmeal.
Did the truck stop give you maple syrup with your scrapple? My parents grew up in Michigan during the Depression. They ate fried mush a lot. It's like scrapple without the pig parts.
I don't remember if that particular place offered the syrup. I do recall tat the scrapple that I had was made with cornmean. That is what made it similar to livermuch also called liver pudding. The orgins of livermuch that I have found dates back the the 14th century in Scotland. Like scrapel, I believe all of the pig is used. When I have northern visitors that think that livermush sounds awful, I make it for breakfast and let them know afterwards what they ate. They are pleasantly surprised. I also feed them grits. They don't leave anything on their plates. We eat out mostly, but I have to do that to them at least once, especially if they are Jewish relatives (on my dad's side) from Boston. They do eat pig.
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Funny, with the GPS systems I don't pay much attention these days. It was in Mt. Laurel called the Sage Diner.
I know exactly where that is. When they built that diner, they tore down an old 1920/30s gas station that looked, for all of the world, like it could be in a very rural area in NC. That is a South Jersey diner.
Is the topic "Diners" ? We have been to Mattie's Diner a few times for Saturday morning breakfast. It is at the Music Factory. How "authentic" is it? Well, it used to be the Bound Brook Diner in Bound Brook New Jersey, and they moved it down here. We like it.
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