Scrapplefest 09!

Saturday, March 21, 2009

If you were at Reading Terminal Market today, you know that today was Scrapplefest!  It was a a very pigalicious event - every vendor in the Terminal who sold scrapple got a cluster of mylar pig balloons to guide the scrapple-craving masses.  But vegetarians were not ignored: Vrapple was included in the festivities.  The woman handing out the balloon clusters worried that the balloons for the Fair Food Farmstand (where Vrapple is sold) should really have some kind of vegetable-shaped balloon. 

To anyone visiting from out of state, the whole thing must have seemed kind of bizarre.  Scrapple itself is pretty weird, but to have local scrapple makers on hand giving out samples and local chefs cooking up special scrapple (and Vrapple, for that matter) dishes...that’s odd.  And let’s not forget about the panel of celebrity judges rating the best scrapple dish!

Just to put a capper on all that weirdness, I’m told that there was a cake made of scrapple and a Dietz & Watson truck made of scrapple.  And scrapple souvenirs. And some sort of odd chocolate scrapple.  No, I’m not kidding.  Hrm.

Sarah Cain, co-manager of the Fair Food Farmstand and genius behind Vrapple, was passing out samples with her cadre of Vrapple aficionados in their very awesome Vrapple-wear.  The Vrapple must have made quite an impression: during my volunteer shift at the Fair Food this morning, the Vrapple was flying off the shelf!