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And how did a breakfast of eggs, bacon, sausage, in Ireland, get to be called a "fry up?"
Because it's fried????? Oh, sure, go for the easy answer.  wow
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>My husband (from Hawaii) eats rice topped with a hamburger >pattie (perferably with all the grease) and then eggs, for >breakfast. It's called loco moco. I think I'd prefer apple >pie.
The loco moco actually sounds better than the PA Dutch breakfast item known as "scrapple." Name gives a clue as to what this is: scraps from the butchering process combined to form a highly seasoned meat loaf-ish food. Slices are fried and served with syrup. One taste was definitely enough. Put me in the apple pie group.
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Hey! I happen to like scrapple...  but then, I was raised on it. I can see how it would turn off someone who isn't used to it. Did you ever have AP cake, or souse, or chow-chow? Some more PA Dutch staples.
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Let's not forget Dragon, Mental as Anything, Olivia Newton-John, John Farnham (I think), Jimmy Barnes, Marcia Hines (at least daughter Demi was born here!), Jelena Dokic, Andrew Ilie, Mel Gibson....give me another minute or two and I'll think of more nae doot.
Guess there's always Hoges, Rolf Harris, um, the Waugh twins, Warnie, Gillie (etc), um....um...
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boiled hamburger
My mother in law made a dish, which my wife copied, consisting of hamburger browned very thoroughly with onion, then water added to the skillet to make a gravy, flavored with salt & pepper only, served over mashed potatoes. My kids loved it; so much so that one of them would choose it for his birthday dinner. My mother in law didn't have any special name for it; I have the honor to have christened it "slumgullion", by which name it is still known in our family. That's not a made-up word; it already existed, I was the one who applied it to this cheap & fast supper for kids.
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Scrapple
Being Pennsylvania Dutch, I know more about scrapple than I would like to. My father, explaining scrapple once to a stranger, noted that it's composed mainly of "eyes, ears, elbows, a***holes, and whatever else is left over after butchering". This is maybe a bit exaggerated, but not much. All the leftover scraps of a hog are mixed with cornmeal mush and boiled together, then molded into large bricks. You slice it and fry it. I myself do not eat scrapple because I can't stand the smell of it.
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There is no defense of scrapple! But if you want something worse, consider head cheese. UGH!
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In reply to:
My mother in law made a dish, which my wife copied, consisting of hamburger browned very thoroughly with onion, then water added to the skillet to make a gravy, flavored with salt & pepper only, served over mashed potatoes.
This is a classic Irish dish--and just called boiled beef-- One cousin made it all the time for kids, when hubby was working late-- he hated the name of it-- but when he finally got arround to tasting-- he was surprized-- Not bad
He was italian, cousin, like me irish. He didn't think any irish food was good-- and the name "boiled beef" didn't help.
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To keep everything in some kind of perspective here:
I had some haggis Saturday night. Wasn't half bad (or half good, if you're English, well maybe it was half good if you're English or maybe if you're English you couldn't have even handled it at all. Maybe it's genetic.)
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In the US Southeast, we refer to the ground beef/onion mix as "Sloppy Joe." Sometimes tomato sauce is added. You can have it as a sandwich (gotta keep a fork handy, though) or over mashed potatoes.
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Fizzies: the generic term is "soft drink," although here in Atlanta it's Coke, of course. I actually overheard a waiter ask a diner what kind of Coke she wanted (I assumed diet or regular). She said: a Pepsi.
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Faldage, was it a Burns Night dinner? Did they pipe in the haggis -- poor little uneven-legged creature? I go with your genetic theory, and hereby join the Apple Pie Gang.
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