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Scrapple is a cornmeal pudding in which the cornmeal, perhaps with the addition of buckwheat, is simmered with pork scraps and trimmings, then cooled and hardened into a loaf. It is particularly popular in eastern Pennsylvania, including the vicinity of Philadelphia, and elsewhere in the southern portion of the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S.


Among other places, scrapple is manufactured in southern Delaware. Bridgeville, Delaware hosts an annual "Apple-Scrapple Festival".

Scrapple is reported to have originated in Germany. It can be cut into slices, fried, and eaten at breakfast in a similar manner to bacon or sausage. It is often served with maple syrup and/or butter.

Scrapple is somewhat similar to the Scottish traditional dish haggis, though the latter is prepared with mutton offal instead of pork, and oatmealOatmeal is a product made by processing oats. In North America, oatmeal means any crushed oats, rolled oats, or cut oats used in recipes such as oatmeal cookies. The porridge made from this is also called oatmeal. However in other parts of the English-spe instead of cornmeal.

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