What is scrapple? This Delaware food is also loved in nearby states

It’s not every day you come across a state where it’s normal for residents to eat bricks of pork for breakfast.  

In Delaware, and the surrounding states, those bricks are called scrapple.  

With new people constantly moving to the First State, and wondering what the heck scrapple is, here’s the lowdown about one of the state’s most famous, and strangest foods. 

What is scrapple? 

One of sausage’s distant cousins is a rectangle-shaped pork relative named “scrapple.” This cherished cuisine in the mid-Atlantic region (Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jersey) is popular for breakfast and made from leftover pig parts, cornmeal and flour.  

The meat is formed in a loaf, sliced and typically fried in a pan until crispy. While the outside is crunchy, the interior of scrapple is mushy like the romantic film “The Notebook.”