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[Autumn Daze]

Thanks Bill...Is this something that could be found in a little town dinner in pigeon country? Dietrich meats website is wonderfull.

[Big D]

Should be available in most diners in SE Pennsylvania.

Rapa's website has a store locator:

http://www.rapascrapple.com/

[Parkerman]

We used to stop at a place named "Zinns" near Ephatra, Pa

[Bill Murphy]

Rapa scrapple is made in Bridgeville, Delaware, a speed trap town on the way from the DC area to the beaches. For years, we had an International Skeet club in Bridgeville owned by Olympic coach Woody Hunsberger. I spent many happy weekends at the Lower Shore Skeet Club. About four Preliminary Olympic Tryouts were held per year, three days each. I'll take a look at the Rapa website. Rapa is probably the largest selling name brand scrapple in the world.

[John Davis]

I got in a little late on this discussion but feel honor requires that I respond. I've had scrapple and was raised on grits. There's really no comparison. Just add a little butter and salt, you'll be eatin' grits morning, noon and night.

[Marc Retallack]

I was born in Lancaster, PA and grew up with an Amish/Mennonite background. We pretty much were bottle fed scrapple, pudding, souse, etc... I'll take pudding and scrapple any day over souse.

Dave- pretty much every diner in south-central PA serves scrapple. Some good, some not so good. Rapa is decent but there are better alternatives. Dietz & Watson ( http://www.dietzandwatson.net/go/our...kfast-kitchen/ ) is good for a large company but the best comes from smaller shops. As long as they haven't changed their recipe since I last had it, Groff's ( http://www.groffsmeats.com/index.asp ) is top notch. I see they do mail orders. I'd recommend you start with them. Add a pound or two of their bacon as well. You won't be disappointed.

And for those inclined to read... http://www.amazon.com/Country-Scrapp.../dp/081170064X

Cheers
Marcus

[Pa SxS]

Dave,

If your really serious about trying scrapple, I'll pick you up some from Groff's in Elizabethtown.

Marcus, If you live close to Lancaster, you missed out on a good time at the recent SxS shoot in Harrisburg.

[George Lander]

Yeah, blame it on ol' Bill. from what I heard about the ingedients os "scrapple" I think I'd rather have gutta-percha. Anyhow even I know about Dietz & Watson's wonderful meats. I'm going to try these other web sites as well. Having been raised on chunk meat, fatback and grits with red eye gravy and country ham, I'll leave the "scrapple" to youse guys. This thread did start out about a Parker hammer gun, didn't it?

Best Regards, George

[Bill Murphy]

Hey, Marc, what kind of work are you doing for that wonderful "wife"? Do you think I could take on a project for her to grease the wheels a bit on my project?

[Marc Retallack]

Hi Bill

I'm supposed to do a partial bathroom remodel for Diane. Not sure how much grease it'll throw on the tracks but that's ok. I don't mind waiting a little longer with Dewey. The results are always worth it.

Cheers
Marcus