Scrapple is nothing like head cheese. Scrapple is good. Head Cheese is evil. My grandmother's old recipe book had the following instructions for head cheese: Take a cows head and remove the brains and eyes. Clean the teeth. Clean out the nostrils. (I, personally, am not brushing a dead cows teeth, nor am I blowing its nose). Boil the head. Scrape off the meat and the gelatinous crud (my words, not the cookbook's). put it in a loaf pan and let it set.

Sounds yummy, huh? It's really foul. I guess it's called head cheese because calling it what it is - cow face- isn't as appealing. There's also something called souse that's similar, but with hot seasonings like cayenne pepper.

Parks brand scrapple has on the list of ingredients: pork snouts, ears and tails, corn meal and spices.

It's all ground up so, mercifully, you can't identify the ingredients. And it's good, if not necesarily good for you.