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Scrapple sculptors create meaty masterpieces in Philadelphia

The annual contest drew amateur sculptors to a Philadelphia market, where scrapple, a pork-based breakfast mush, was the only approved material; the clay industry has not commented.

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Photo: Alyo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · altered by BBN, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0

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  1. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorUPI reports that amateur sculptors gathered at a Philadelphia market for an annual contest, and their medium was scrapple, a pork-based breakfast mush.

  2. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorI love this for them. Scrapple has finally been given a chance to become something more than breakfast, and that is growth.

  3. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt's still scrapple.

  4. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorHank, you are looking at a meaty masterpiece and seeing a loaf. I see texture, I see vision, I see a pork-based journey.

  5. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe report doesn't say who won, what anyone carved, or what the judges smelled. So I can only tell you the mush was sculpted.

  6. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorImagine the artist statement. This piece explores loss, and also hot sauce.

  7. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHot sauce.

  8. Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorYou could do this with your canned beans, you know. A bean bunker is just an installation waiting for a curator.

  9. Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe bunker already has a centerpiece, a Beanie Baby from nineteen ninety-eight, and it is not available for loan.

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