What's that weird food called that they eat in Dover Delaware?
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- Aparna Patel
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- 23 Jul, 2023
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Head cheese or better known as souse! Only thing people confuse scrapple for!
This tripadvisor review of the Hotel du Pont refers to a room service breakfast “of cream chipped beef with scrapple” (which) “is not to be missed”.
I don’t see the room service menu, but the their Green Room restaurant only shows creamed beef on the breakfast menu.
Looks like a fancy place. I’d be tempted to use the military term for this dish shit-on-a-shingle.
Since it wasn’t scrapple, it may have been Spam, sliced and fried.
For the uninitiated, scrapple is made of pig parts, corn meal, and spices, not unlike sausage, and has been produced in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States since the early days of the colonies.
Similarly, Spam is the brand of a canned product, made of cooked meats (pork, ham, whatever else). As scrapple is the iconic food product of Delaware, Spam is that of Hawaii, so popular that it’s sometimes referred to as ‘The Hawaiian Steak.’
Spam has been around since the 1930’s, and became so ubiquitous that it inspired the Monty Python sketch as tasting horrible, inescapable and led to the name being used for junk, unsolicited email.
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It could be Canadian bacon, but I’m gonna guess it was pork roll.
Speculative, since I’ve only ever been to Delaware twice and never breakfasted out there, but googling suggests (via http://www.onlyinyourstate.com/delaware/iconic-delaware-foods/ ) Cream Chipped Beef, which is “Dried beef in white sauce, poured over toast usually”. Wikipedia asserts (my emphases)
Chipped beef is served in many diners and restaurants in the United
States as a breakfast item. Creamed chipped beef is standard fare
on many such diner menus, especially in the Mid-Atlantic, but has
become harder to find in chain restaurants that serve breakfast
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