[Leica] Scrapple and SPAM

[grdalton at hotmail.com (Gary Dalton)]

That's a great story!



> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:24:45 -0400
> To: lug at leica-users.org
> From: marcsmall at comcast.net
> Subject: [Leica] Scrapple and SPAM
> 
> At 02:16 PM 3/28/2009, Phil Swango wrote:
>  >I have an archaeologist friend who grew up in Yugoslavia just after WW2.
>  > She's quite a gourmet nowadays but has a special place in her heart for
>  >Spam.  The reason?  She has memories from childhood of getting Spam from 
> US
>  >care packages, and it being the only meat they could ever get.
>  >
>  >I grew up in the US deep south but for some reason never heard of 
> scrapple.
>  > I tried it when I moved to the east coast as an adult but didn't like 
> it.
>  > Not crazy about Spam either.
> 
> Scrapple is not a southern dish but rather one 
> evolved by the Penn Dutch in south-central 
> Pennsytucky.  I grew up on the stuff -- my Dad 
> was from Johnsown, PA, and his mother was Penn 
> Dutch.  A plate of scrapple loaded down with some 
> Karo Syrup and heaven is at hand.
> 
> Scrapple is made from miscellaneous pork parts -- 
> "all of the pig save for the oink"-- in a 
> cornmeal mush base.  The Scots do a similar think 
> with oddball sheep parts in an oatmeal 
> base.  This is called haggis and, again, is sheer 
> heaven, especially when sprinkled with some good malt whisky.
> 
> I like SPAM and eat it regularly.  My Dad hated 
> SPAM:  when he was stationed at Fort Morrow on 
> the Alaska Peninsula over the winter of 1942/43, 
> the last supply ship of the year came in the day 
> before Thanksgiving.  The guys all had a typical 
> Thanksgiving spread as only the US military can 
> provide.  The supply ship sailed out late 
> Thanksgiving afternoon.  That night, the 
> warehouse burned down, and the only meat 
> available was SPAM, which became the staple along 
> with powdered eggs until the following April, 
> albeit Dad, as a Battery Commander, got the Post 
> CO to authorize the use of military rifles for 
> hunting, so Dad would take his Battery out 
> occasionally to shoot sea birds and caribou to supplement the SPAM.
> 
> Marc
> 
> 
> msmall at aya.yale.edu
> Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!
> 
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