Stopped by a tiny West Virginia Truck Stop/Diner yesterday.

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6. A more formally-correct answer.

Scrapple is a charcuterie item, a forcemeat.

Forcemeats are meat products made of ground scrap meats, the same ones alternately used to make hot-dogs, mixed with extra fats and sometimes gelatin in order to allow them to be formed into loafs or molded. Terrines are also forcemeats, as an example.

In the case of scrapple, the mix usually consists of ground pork from sub-prime cuts, pork liver, heart, snouts, cheek meat, salt, lard and grain-meal. Onions, black pepper and other charcuterie pork products like ham, salt pork and bacon are also frequent inclusions more often found in housemade scrapples. It's formed into a loaf, then sliced and fried to order. It's a Pennsylvania Dutch thing.

It tastes like a more-fatty ground pork, alternately like unspiced sausage patty. I'm not a fan, I think it has a greasy mouth-feel. If you're the sort of person that likes pork products generally and prefers your hamburgers on the extremely-greasy side...scrapple might be your thing.

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