where i live now, they serve brown gravy if you order a chicken fry, It is just another one of those things you have to do yourself if you want it done right!

anyone else ever had scrapple?
this from the scrapple article on wikipedia:
"with a flavor and ingredients that cannot and should not be described in words."

so quite naturally (as a kid anyhow) i loved it.

Scrapple: Roadkill in a skillett consisting mostly of what the vultures and crows left behind.

Scrapple: road kill in a skillet after the buzzards, vultures and crows have fouled what they left behind. I'm not sure a maggot would find scrapple appetising.

Bon Appetite Mssr. Maggot.

Hmmm I like to eat meat but scrapple ain't meat. Its well; It could make me go vegan if veggieburgers didn't taste so foul either.

now that I live in the Pennsylvania Dutch Country i can talk like I know Scrapple, they say slice it thin and fry it crisp...I always say could you just please pass the grits?

hoo! that was better than confessing at a confessional...not that i've ever been to one, but i have seen one on tv.

Well Root Beer is not common here, but there is a place up in Bundaberg that makes a fairdinkum,natural Root Beer and also very good Ginger Beer and Horehound.
You should see the quizzical look on peoples faces when I offer 'em a Root Beer Float. I'm not normally a soft drink (soda pop) drinkin' gal, (mostly water and good quality tea) but a RBF goes down well here in the heat of summer. Anyway some people like it and some don't.

The Pennsylvania Dutch Country type scrapple is sooo good. I had it somewhere recently. Might've been in Ohio. Yum...

We (college dazed freaks) used to drive up through Amish country on the way to CT from the Shenandoah Valley. One time we stopped for cigs and gas at this place in the boondocks. This old guy with an abe lincoln beard in overalls looked like he was going to kill us as we galked at the 2 very attractive country girls waiting on us,.....most likely his daughters.

Scrapple's OK............with apple butter......though the closest thing in NE would be spam (a truly scary concoction...perhaps related to mechanically separated poultry....which this guy told me is like beaks and eyes and feet)

Hey has anyone had/made real sassafras tea ? My father in law said he was served some and it buzzed his head severely....we have a giant grove of sassafras trees in our yard.

i don't think i ever made sassafras tea, but i am pretty sure i remember making some kind of sarsaparilla tea, sweetened it with a little apple juice which was pretty good in the summer drank cold.

I knew I liked you!! Chicken fried steak is comfort food...blacked-eyed peas (or better yet, crowder or purple hull) (?) peas) with cornbread and onion and figs and tomato, oh my!

Now I'm hungry!!

Don't forget the pear relish to go with the peas, and end it with sour green grape pie and cream, or homemade peach ice cream.

Chicken fried steak is sooo good. In some areas around here they call it country fried steak. Yum...

I beg to differ...here's what I hear they eat in Texas...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfbTO0GlONU

We actually ignored the warning and tried this at home. Really tasted good. I could only eat one piece though...

I'm a fifth-generation native Texan, and I have never heard of that. It's intriguingly evil.