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Old 12-07-2017, 05:12 AM
 
Location: Delaware Native
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Delaware Day, for a long as we can remember, is a holiday to be celebrated, as we were the First State to Ratify the Constitution. We celebrate with others of this mindset, cooking Delaware type foods, touring the site where Delaware became the First State (The Golden Fleece Tavern on The Green) and candlelight tours around The Green. Here's a little information for those thinking: HUH? https://delawarestatenews.net/news/d...gn=destatenews
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Old 12-07-2017, 09:13 AM
 
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And now you see the reason why I visited Delaware just last week instead of now. I didn't want to come this week and be forced to eat scrapple! I did get stuck in downtown Dover the night they turned on the Christmas lights and was stuck on Rt. 13 that night when the earth shook the car. But, I'll take an earthquake over scrapple any day!
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Old 12-07-2017, 09:27 AM
 
Location: Delaware Native
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And now you see the reason why I visited Delaware just last week instead of now. I didn't want to come this week and be forced to eat scrapple! I did get stuck in downtown Dover the night they turned on the Christmas lights and was stuck on Rt. 13 that night when the earth shook the car. But, I'll take an earthquake over scrapple any day!
Perhaps, Delaware Day is not for you.
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Old 12-08-2017, 02:58 AM
 
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Anybody that doesn't want their scrapple can sent it to me and I'll get rid of it for ya.
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Old 12-08-2017, 05:24 AM
 
Location: Former LI'er Now Rehoboth Beach, DE
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Anybody that doesn't want their scrapple can sent it to me and I'll get rid of it for ya.
Ok you can have mine. I did recall it was Delaware Day but to be honest, it was Pearl Harbor day's date that triggered it in my mind. Hopefully, that does not banish me to "tourist" status as I do love my adopted state. In the interest of being transparent, as they say, I must also say that I have never tried scrapple because it just sounds awful to me. I guess my status is really in doubt now. Just so you know I have nothing against scrapple per se, in fact I have not had a hot dog in over 50 years either. (Great I think I am no longer an American.) I am a very picky eater, and would be happy eating chicken every day. Surely, that means at least temporary status for me.
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Old 12-08-2017, 06:58 AM
 
Location: Delaware Native
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No apologies, Nuts. We don't think you're persnickety. You can have fried mus'rat with stewed tomatoes, in place of the scrapple. I guess we have to tone our favorite foods down a little for newcomers.

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Old 12-08-2017, 12:58 PM
 
Location: Seaford, DE
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No worries, Nuts....I won't eat scrapple either!!!! I've had it before when I was a kid and never really cared for it. Now, I avoid it for health reasons but my husband loves it. However, he won't eat hot dogs.
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Old 12-09-2017, 03:44 AM
 
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For me, scrapple is a treat I have for breakfast when I am on vacation. I buy the 1lb package which is enough to get 6 slices ( which makes 3 scrapple and egg sandwiches on sourdough bread). One sandwich a day. No condiments. So I guess I only eat scrapple 9 times a year.
Let's check my math:
3 weeks vacation
1 1lb brick of scrapple per week
3 sandwiches per brick

Yep. Only 9 scrapple and egg sandwiches a year. For health reasons.
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Old 12-09-2017, 04:52 AM
 
Location: Boston
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Never cared for scrapple but my brother and sister liked it. They put maple syrup on it.
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Old 12-09-2017, 05:56 AM
 
Location: Delaware Native
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To us, eating scrapple is an "event". For years, during the summer months, about once/month, on Fridays, we go to Spence's Bazaar to join familiar faces at a picnic table covered with an old vinyl, red checkered, tablecloth. There are 2 picnic tables in the Amish deli and they fill up quickly. Go early, not after 8 a.m. We don't know any of those people sitting around us by name, but they are farmers, and country folk around the Dover area. We have our own names for those nice people: "Suspenders"..."Toothy"... "Apron Lady" are some. They are always there when we go. We learned quickly: Order your scrapple sandwich from the Amish lady, pay another Amish lady, pick up your sandwich and run to a picnic table. Upon sitting down, the conversation is in full bloom, consisting of the weather, latest farm machinery, who died, and price of corn and soybeans. Without missing a beat in the conversation, someone hands us a roll of paper towels. We each tear one off, and put the roll back in the middle of the table. The goal is to EAT quickly, jump into the conversation if you want, then allow others a seat at the red checkered tablecloth. After our "scrapple feast", we leave with a "See 'Ya" to the familiar faces, receive waves and some "Back At Ya(s)" and head for the bargain tables. That's the typical Delaware we know.

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