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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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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
What's the difference between goetta and scrapple?
—Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 28 July 2022
Soggy, under cooked scrapple is not nice.
—Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 13 Nov. 2020
For three vote-thronged days, Americans have been treated to how the scrapple is made.
—Karen Heller, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2023
Despite local customer requests, Wawa still doesn’t offer scrapple, which is trickier to grill than sausage and might not lend itself to off-site, centralized preparation.
—al, 9 Dec. 2022
In the kitchen, this included sharing her love of pancake Sundays, Philadelphia-style scrapple, and, of course, Thanksgiving.
—Peter Mikelbank, Peoplemag, 23 Nov. 2022
According to Grace's nephew Chris LeVine, the royal would regularly end her visits to Philadelphia by wrapping up portions of scrapple in the family kitchen and placing them in her handbag.
—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 17 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
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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