Scrapple Sculpture Contest Winner Prevailed in Eagles Country with Tribute to ‘Tush Push’

Scrapple sculpture contest winner prevailed in Eagles country with tribute to ‘tush push’

In the contest for best scrapple sculpture in Philadelphia on Friday it was the “Mush Push” fashioned from the regionally popular pork breakfast meat that got Patrick Moser’s entry over the goal line. The Havertown tattoo artist’s tribute to the Philadelphia Eagles’ trademark short yardage play, known as the “tush push,” took the top honor at a lighthearted art competition to kick off the Scrapple & Apple Festival. The celebration of all things …

From scraps to masterpieces: Scrapple Sculpting Competition spotlights Philly food and creativity

Philadelphia’s taste for gritty culinary traditions and unlikely artistic mediums was on display at Reading Terminal Market’s second annual Scrapple Sculpting Contest. The event invited artists and enthusiasts to transform five-pound blocks of scrapple into creative sculptures, celebrating both the delicacy and the city itself. This uniquely Pennsylvania Dutch breakfast meat has been a local favorite for well over a century, with the first recip…

Philly’s Scrapple Sculpting Contest was won by a Delco tattooer who carved the Tush Push

Philadelphia Art Museum director and CEO Sasha Suda, who judged the competition, said the winning sculpture pushed scrapple "to its absolute limits."