Ethnic Food Is Gross

I had the recent experience of tasting some "meat" products from two distinctly different cultures: scrapple, from the U.S. South, and blood sausage, from many cultures, but in this case from Ireland.

Scrapple is made up of the pieces of pigs deemed unfit for hot dogs mixed up with cornmeal and spices. I must admit, I'm not against it. I really thought I would like this dish. It may sound gross to you, but I promise you, you have eaten worse. Frozen Salisbury steak? SPAM? Chicken McNugget? You have eaten some questionable shit. Don't judge scrapple.

That said, scrapple is horrible. I'm not a big fan of breakfast sausage. I do, however, enjoy pate. That said, scrapple is has the unpleasant flavor of sausage mixed with the wretched texture of pate. Yuck.

Blood sausage, a combination of pork, spices, and dried pig blood, all mixed together in pig intestines, had a great flavor. That great flavor, however, is cancelled out by the consistency. Another name for blood sausage is blood (and black) pudding. The name is fitting. Imagine getting a dish of pudding. You look at it, and assume it's chocolate. You stick your spoon in, take a big mouthful, and OH MY GOD, it tastes like pig meat!!! It's weird. Even knowing that you're about to eat something called blood pudding doesn't prepare you for the image of cutting into a sausage casing and having scabby pig glop come gushing out. A shame, really. Stupid Brits and their gross meat dishes.

That said, next up: kidney pie!  Woot!

So, two more to go...

 Scrapple. Yum. Oops, sorry, that's a typo. It should have been "yuck."

Blood sausage. What it sounds like.