Re: [at-l] Spackle?? <was: breaking camp>

["Thomas N. Vanveen Jr" <tvanveen@accmail.umd.edu>]

Now I always thought it was a Southern dish. OTOH, I just read somewhere
that %90 of it is made in Delaware.

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Pat Villeneuve wrote:
> 
> That's SCRAPPLE. It's a Pennsylvania-Dutch dish--kind of a loaf made from fillers
> and the stuff that wasn't good enough to make it into hot dogs. It's usually
> sliced and fried, and you can choose to bury it under catsup or apple butter. Now
> that you know more than you want to, you realize why nobody serving you the food
> wanted to tell you...
> 
> Give Me Chocolate
> 
> Jeremy Reiter wrote:
> 
> > Datto wrote:
> > > Ha! That's why you lump it all on a slice of spackle. Cures yeast
> > > infections, toenail fungus and -><- shrinks swollen membranes.
> > >
> > > Any of you Pennsylvanians out there still eating spackle? I grew up in
> > > Johnstown where spackle was a staple. You could either spackle your
> > > drywall or staple it, but not both.
> > >
> >
> > So, can anyone out there provide a DEFINITE answer on exactly what spackle is?
> > I believe it started showing up on menus once we hit Pennsylvania, and i
> > gathered that it was some sort of a pork leftovers product. However, EVERY
> > waiter/waitress that we asked gave a different, very vague answer, or they
> > just admitted that they had no idea. It was pretty funny... we would always
> > ask what it was just so we could see the confused expressions and hear what
> > answer we were going to get next. Funny stuff.
> >
> > -Rambleon-
> >
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