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@diehardbrownsfan said:

This receipe doesn't sound bad:

Pennsylvania Dutch Scrapple

1 pound lean pork
1 large onion 
3 quarts water
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 tablespoon pepper
1 teaspoon ground sage
3 cups cornmeal

That is some high quality scrapple haha. In most servings it isn’t “pork pieces”. It is just the left over stuff that isn’t fit for bologna. I grew up with it so I like it but it can be a little funky.

Pennsylvania Dutch Scrapple

1 pound lean pork
1 large onion 
3 quarts water
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 tablespoon pepper
1 teaspoon ground sage
3 cups cornmeal

@logicisforsquares said:

Scrapple was a regular part of a NJ breakfast. We lived on the NJ/PA border.

I've had it, don't particularly like it. Black and white pudding on an Irish breakfast plate is a lot better. Scrapple reminds me a little bit haggis.

WSS

@westside-steve said:

A fictional product which nobody wants oh, much like the Chevy Cruze. Scrapple is a Pennsylvania Dutch dish made of cornmeal mush and organ meat. Sushi is, well hell you know what sushi is. No, not the former GM of the Cleveland Browns either.

WSS

Scrapple was a regular part of a NJ breakfast. We lived on the NJ/PA border.

@texasag1969 said:

What in the world is scrapple sushi?

A fictional product which nobody wants oh, much like the Chevy Cruze. Scrapple is a Pennsylvania Dutch dish made of cornmeal mush and organ meat. Sushi is, well hell you know what sushi is. No, not the former GM of the Cleveland Browns either.

WSS

@westside-steve said:

In other news Kiko Hershberger's House of scrapple sushi drive-thru just closed.

WSS

What in the world is scrapple sushi?

@texasag1969 said:

Today the last one was shown going through the assembly line in Lordstown where the plant will be closed after that one is completed. Very sad day for America and for the fine people that once built me a Cruze to my specifications. I contacted the guy in charge of it this morning as he had come in from retirement last summer to see the last one to be built. We have plans to meet in S.A. where his daughter lives when he is here for a visit in late April. All-around good guy and a fine union man. He has a lot of friends seeing their jobs disappear today.

If anybody anywhere in the world wanted a Chevy Cruze it would probably still be open.

In other news Kiko Hershberger's House of scrapple sushi drive-thru just closed.

WSS

That car was a POS. 

It’s time for the president to keep his promises to Ohio autoworkers.

As GM began laying off workers in Lordstown last week, we also heard the company is planning to close its West Chester processing center this spring, laying off another 100 workers.

This news has been devastating for workers, their families, local businesses, and the entire community.

But it didn’t have to be this way. 

I met with GM CEO Mary Barra and she said the Cruze wasn’t selling, and they want to invest in electric vehicles instead – but they’re building GM’s new Chevy Blazer in Mexico.

GM could retool the Lordstown plant and make those cars in Ohio, but they won’t.

We need to overhaul our trade and tax policy, and end this corporate business model where companies like GM close American plants, collect a tax break to move overseas, only to sell those cars back into the U.S.

It’s why I’m reintroducing the American Cars, American Jobs Act. It will help us level the playing field with foreign competition by making it more affordable for Americans to buy American-made cars and trucks, and revoke the tax cut in the President’s tax law that rewards companies sending jobs overseas.

It has two simple parts.

First, customers who buy cars that are made in the U.S. get a $3,500 discount. And if that American car is electric or a plug-in hybrid, they get an even bigger $4,500 discount – those are the cars GM said it was going to start making instead of the Cruze. 

Second, companies that cut the number of American jobs they had on the day the president’s tax bill passed, and add those jobs overseas, lose their tax break.

The president’s tax bill allowed companies to pay just 10.5 percent in taxes on some of their overseas profits, instead of the full 21 percent corporate rate. It’s like handing out 50-percent-off coupons to companies that send jobs overseas.

Our bill says that if you move American jobs abroad, you lose your 50-percent-off coupon and pay the full 21 percent. On the other hand, if you keep jobs in the U.S., you keep your discounted rate.

President Trump promised American autoworkers he would fight for them – he told the people of the Mahoning Valley, “Don’t move, don’t sell your house. We’re going to fill up those factories or rip them down and build new ones.”

Workers in Lordstown are still waiting.

I’m calling on the president to keep his promises and help us pass the American Cars, American Jobs Act. 

Sherrod

@diehardbrownsfan said:

They cry and break down easily.

That must be a conservative's car then.  

I mean, I have never seen such fear and loathing directed to a nobody as they direct toward this young little  hispanic chickie.  You would think that she was some kind of body snatcher or something.   If she is, then she is too late, some other alien life form has already sucked out their brains and left like mashed potatos in their place.

@the-gipper said:

Higher quality then.  Good to know.

They cry and break down easily.

@diehardbrownsfan said:

Suburu's are liberal cars.?

Higher quality then.  Good to know.

@the-gipper said:

Yea, they are....in concept.  What they weren't close in was  the quality of the execution of the build.

If the engineers had thought about it, they could have made the Gremlin an all wheel drive easily enough. I mean, what vehicles had 4WD in the 70s?  Some  pickup trucks and the Chevy Blazer?

The Subaru AWD was first introduced in 1972.

@texasag1969 said:

A mechanics dream moneymaking Grimlin vs the best long running AWD has to be the biggest stretch I've ever seen in car comparisons. One is a snowmobile and the other is a high centering rear wheel drive nightmare in snow. They aren't even close in concept.

Yea, they are....in concept.  What they weren't close in was  the quality of the execution of the build.

If the engineers had thought about it, they could have made the Gremlin an all wheel drive easily enough. I mean, what vehicles had 4WD in the 70s?  Some  pickup trucks and the Chevy Blazer?

@the-gipper said:

The Outback here is perhaps a bit longer, with another set of doors, but same basic concept.

A mechanics dream moneymaking Grimlin vs the best long running AWD has to be the biggest stretch I've ever seen in car comparisons. One is a snowmobile and the other is a high centering rear wheel drive nightmare in snow. They aren't even close in concept.

The Outback here is perhaps a bit longer, with another set of doors, but same basic concept.

@texasag1969 said:

Au contraire. My daughter currently has my Subaru full time AWD Outback with X-mode for deep snow/mud at use in Crestview, Colorado on a ski trip with her family. She reports that it has handled deep snow very well and that she was glad she did not take their RWD Tahoe like she did last year. It had trouble with just medium snowfall. Subaru sells a ton of vehicles in Colorado for exactly that reason. Plus in the summer it can go on mountain roads you cannot take anything but a Jeep on for the most part. Great gas mileage and far better acceleration than the old Subarus.

The Outbacks are a pretty good vehicle.  But I don't really see them as an SUV.

They are more like a lineal descendant of a Pacer, or Gremlin.  Its just that they are made far better.

@the-gipper said:

WTF are people buying? Sorry, but in my opinion, these "SUVs" they are pumping out are fairly useless vehicles.

Au contraire. My daughter currently has my Subaru full time AWD Outback with X-mode for deep snow/mud at use in Crestview, Colorado on a ski trip with her family. She reports that it has handled deep snow very well and that she was glad she did not take their RWD Tahoe like she did last year. It had trouble with just medium snowfall. Subaru sells a ton of vehicles in Colorado for exactly that reason. Plus in the summer it can go on mountain roads you cannot take anything but a Jeep on for the most part. Great gas mileage and far better acceleration than the old Subarus.