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Originally Posted by Unsuspicious
Scrapple is the trimmings and offal
Spam is shoulder and ham
(The primary ingredient in Spam is chopped pork shoulder meat mixed with ham. About 90% of Spam is pork from a pig's shoulders. The remaining 10% (or so) comes from the pig's buttock and thigh, better known as ham)
I buy ham hock terrine which is basically head cheese loaf except made from hocks, use it for making vietnamese sandwiches
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"Scrapple" is a sausage-like combination of pork with seasonings. I made some from my hogs back in the '70s but didn't care for it that much. Bought some at the store some years ago, didn't care for that either.
The word "ham" is a bit fuzzy. It normally means the hind quarter of a hog, but it can be "fresh" or cured/smoked.
A picnic ham is the cured/smoked shoulder -- which is a cheaper cut than a rear ham.