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Philadelphia's Reading Terminal Market held their very first Scrapplefest last month to celebrate the Pennsylvania treat, and the big draw was of course a cooking contest with the winner to be crowned Scrapple King.
Third place went to a pulled-pork and scrapple sandwich with pecorino cheese, and second to crisp-fried scrapple used as toast points with seared tuna, mango and avocado. You'd think the big prize would've gone to the guys who made a sweet scrapple bread pudding, dressed with a white chocolate sauce, or maybe the creator of "Scrapple Nouveau", who made a napoleon of sorts by layering "his homemade scrapple with apricot compote, blood orange sauce, goat cheese, microgreens and a polenta-pig topping." But no, 2007's Scrapple King is Nick Ochs of the highly-esteemed Harry G. Ochs and Sons, recognized for his scrapple burger and fries. It sounds straightforward enough, but I'm guessing the judges were mightily impressed by the fact that his "fries" were actually made out of scrapple too: sliced into strips and deep-fried. Truly a man for the ages.
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4 Comments:
bleh. i can't get into scrapple. i lived up North for a while, and just dont get it. but i do like pork roll. can't find that in Southern grocery stores though. ah, the power of amazon!
french tart at 1:29PM on 05/01/07
You can get pork roll on Amazon?!?! WTF! Amazing times we live in.
Adam Kuban at 2:16PM on 05/01/07
they have a whole non-perishable grocery store. i wish we had a Fresh Direct like you guys in NY have. years ago, atlanta used to have Webvan. as much as i like to grocery shop and go several times a week, at times when i'm really busy i'd rather just place my order online and have them deliver it.
french tart at 2:29PM on 05/01/07
Yeah. I knew about Amazon's grocery delivery thing, but I never imagined pork roll would be in it. So cool.
Adam Kuban at 3:01PM on 05/01/07