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: a seasoned mixture of ground meat (such as pork) and cornmeal set in a mold and served sliced and fried
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Oysters, biscuits and carpetbagger steak The original plan was to road trip to Montana, with 4,000 oysters in tow, as well as pounds of crab meat, scrapple, fish peppers and other produce.
—Amanda Yeager, Baltimore Sun, 12 June 2024
The scrapple might feel more ubiquitous in 2024, but that is likely due to extended media coverage, not to mention a vocal collective on social media.
—Anya Jaremko-Greenwold, The Week Us, theweek, 16 May 2024
Your last big chow-down before your new year’s diet resolutions kick in may run to the traditional: black-eyed peas, or lentils, cornbread, a dozen grapes — one for each month of the new year — or scrapple, a kind of Dutch-German pork and cornmeal loaf.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2023
For her preferred scrapple, family members recall, Princess Grace turned to smuggling.
—Peter Mikelbank, Peoplemag, 23 Nov. 2022
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Word History
Etymology
diminutive of scrap entry 1
First Known Use
1852, in the meaning defined above
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“Scrapple.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scrapple. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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scrapple
noun
scrap·ple
ˈskrap-əl
: a seasoned mush of meat scraps and cornmeal set in a mold and served in fried slices
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