i suspect, they did something similar back home in germany or eastern europe-- scrapple doesn't have a meat name...
we do not pretend that we have meat when it is not so.
Eastern European sausages still have more meat and less fat than, for example, British sausages. in fact, many Russians who live in UK complain that they can not eat "horrible things they call sausages".

backward technology is not always bad where it concers food.