the thread came to an abrupt halt with this provocative rant:

To the Editor of the New-York Times:

Let a few of your economists try the following recipe and they will find it is all it is cracked up to be: Take a calf's left hind leg and let it hang until it will just stay hung without falling, then take it down, after cutting the bone out chop the meat into pieces about the size of a walnut, put them on the roof in a rain-storm for twenty-four hours, after which (if a cat don't get them) boil with a pound of licorice-root, let the lot gently simmer for a few minutes and then add a paper of Lorillard's century tobacco with a little old rye whisky, and you will have the meanest mess under the sun except scrapple.

ANTI-SCRAPPLE

In what may be the earliest recorded example of a "flame," H.G. punned on A GOOD LIVER's pen-name, suggesting that he be "boiled and chopped up" for his ignorance.

If he was blogging in 1872, he would be under the name Ragged Tosser.

Very funny article, BTW

That was the most enjoyable thing I've read in the past few weeks! And the reader comments on the link were great. Proto-blogging - delightful. Thank you Lipz.

Proto-blogging

Indeed.

Our dim, distant blog ancestors.

Funneh story, Lipz.

Scrapple, itself, sound absolutely horrible though.

Be Well.

Neanderbloggers! WhooooHooooo!!

Scrapple, itself, sound absolutely horrible though.

#5 | Posted by dethspud at 2009-12-03 05:28 AM

Better than breakfast sausage imo.

Maybe you have to be from the east coast.

The way my grandma used to make scrapple was seriously good!