Delta Air Lines and Virgin Atlantic have developed something of a solid partnership lately, to the extent you can call it a ”partnership” when one airline owns 49% of the other (hint: Delta’s taking the wheel in this situation and Virgin’s riding shotgun).
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I kind of like things like this. Not exactly the same, but things like the Centurion Suite at Staples Center make you feel a little bit more valued. Granted, there's nothing really special to it, but it really is nice to have another option that isn't accessed by all the 10,000,000 people there to see the Clippers/Kings/Gaga/Britney/whoever. CSP at Sundance also comes to mind.
I knew this was not written by ben because the word "delta" was used more than 2 times or even used at all
I can recall a Japanese show about how bad British food is. I think the food in the show, invented/cooked by British locals, is totally in line with the scrapple in terms of texture and plating...so it is somewhat Ny-Lon themed...
Is it just me or do you keep banging on about being accused of being anti British? I've not read many of your posts but it feels like you bring it up constantly... (Apologies if I'm just imagining/exaggerating this!)
Ah, having read the linked article I now see your point. Though you can hardly complain, your review meets the stereotype of ignorant and arrogant American perfectly - even though you thought you were just being funny. Which it was at the start before coming incredibly tiresome (I can't quite figure out whether the people who somehow found it hilarious also fit the stereotype or just enjoy hearing the same unoriginal jokes over and over again?).
@callum: I'm going to be the bigger man and conclude that your overpowering condescension and misplaced sense of superiority have nothing to do with stereotypes about your nationality.
To clarify: scrapple is a recipe from the war era used in diners across eastern PA and mid-atlantic states and may use any part of the pork.
You obviously aren't anti-UK, since you spend so much money and effort visiting there. Humor rarely translates well into other cultures.
Scrapple is just a US (ok, Pennsylvania, though I tried it in New Jersey) pork-based version of haggis. Neither tops my favorites list but they're not horrible. I wouldn't pay $10 for a plate of scrapple, though.
Everyone is cashing in on Brooklyn these days, including several hipster spots in Paris. Nothing in this menu says to me local-sustainable-artisanal so I wouldn't expect anyhing extraordinary, let alone Brooklyn-ish. All the NY dishes are described in Brit menu-speak--courgettes? prawn? Fuggedaboudit!
Why is scrapple so surprising (with family hailing from PA Dutch areas I'm familiar with it)?
The DL press release describes the menu not merely as NYC centric but "inspired by the airlines' heritage".
If you'd read all of the Wiki article alone, much less other sources, you'd have known that Scrapple is from not just PA but rural areas across the mid-Atlantic - DE, MD, VA, NJ, etc. Certainly NJ as well as Philadelphia and far eastern PA are within the greater NYC realm. Scrapple is available in NYC proper and is recently gaining some popularity.
Scrapple was not a wartime creation. It's been around in the US since the 1600/1700s and stems from similar styles of dishes from Europe.