Apple Scrapple Festival
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The Apple Scrapple Festival is an event held annually during the second weekend in October in Bridgeville, Delaware
, a small town in Sussex County
. Events start on Thursday with local's night (carnival only) and the Miss/Little Miss Apple Scrapple Pageant held at Woodbridge High School. The festival officially begins Friday night with the opening ceremony, carnival, food court and street dance. Saturday morning starts out with an all you can eat scrapple
breakfast. Other activities include kids' games, scrapple chunkin, scrapple carving, live entertainment, carnival rides, a car show, tractor pull, a health and safety fair, trade show, craft shows, ride in motorcycle show, a 5k jog, and tattoo contests. There is a Mayor's Scrapple Sling where mayors and presidents of the town councils from across Sussex County come to compete for the title "King of Sling" by throwing a package of scrapple the farthest. The food court has apple fritters, scrapple sandwiches, crabcake sandwiches, oyster sandwiches, hamburgers and hot dogs, barbecue beef sandwiches, boardwalk fries, apple dumplings, ice cream and more. There are also live bands playing bluegrass, country, rock, and soul music. Don't forget to look out for the Apple Scrapple Festival Mascot, Porker the Pig!
Bridgeville, Delaware
As of the census of 2000, there were 1,436 people, 570 households, and 381 families residing in the town. The population density was 1,768.6 people per square mile . There were 636 housing units at an average density of 783.3 per square mile...
, a small town in Sussex County
Sussex County, Delaware
Sussex County is a county located in the southern part of the U.S. state of Delaware. As of 2010 the population was 197,145, an increase of 25.9% over the previous decade. The county seat is Georgetown. The Seaford Micropolitan Statistical Area includes all of Sussex County.Sussex County is...
. Events start on Thursday with local's night (carnival only) and the Miss/Little Miss Apple Scrapple Pageant held at Woodbridge High School. The festival officially begins Friday night with the opening ceremony, carnival, food court and street dance. Saturday morning starts out with an all you can eat scrapple
Scrapple
Scrapple, also known by the Pennsylvania Dutch name pon haus, is traditionally a mush of pork scraps and trimmings combined with cornmeal and flour, often buckwheat flour, and spices. The mush is formed into a semi-solid congealed loaf, and slices of the scrapple are then panfried before serving...
breakfast. Other activities include kids' games, scrapple chunkin, scrapple carving, live entertainment, carnival rides, a car show, tractor pull, a health and safety fair, trade show, craft shows, ride in motorcycle show, a 5k jog, and tattoo contests. There is a Mayor's Scrapple Sling where mayors and presidents of the town councils from across Sussex County come to compete for the title "King of Sling" by throwing a package of scrapple the farthest. The food court has apple fritters, scrapple sandwiches, crabcake sandwiches, oyster sandwiches, hamburgers and hot dogs, barbecue beef sandwiches, boardwalk fries, apple dumplings, ice cream and more. There are also live bands playing bluegrass, country, rock, and soul music. Don't forget to look out for the Apple Scrapple Festival Mascot, Porker the Pig!