

The family scrapped recipe after recipe before landing on one that seemed to get it right. It's a relative newcomer to their lineup, added just a couple decades ago. It's similar, but even coarser than liver mush, and less likely to be sliced, fried and served on a piece of toast like its brick-meat brethren. Now it's two products, liver pudding the smoother cold cut, while liver mush is a little drier.Īnd then there's scrapple. It was all the same thing, but with different names on local menus. Early on, chief executive Tom Neese explained, the family sold its product as liver pudding, but buyers west of the Yadkin River called it liver mush. Oh, there have been shifts and additions over the years. The rest is just pig, no preservatives, no additives.
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The family recipe is a secret, of course, but know that it's at least 30 percent liver – if a label uses the word liver, the law requires it, co-president Andrea Neese said – plus cornmeal and spices. When CNN's Defining America project stopped in North Carolina, we checked in with the Neese family, makers and purveyors of country sausage and liver mush since 1917. This crowd is more likely to know liver mush from the Travel Channel than their local Harris Teeter market.īut still, you'll find it on grocery store shelves in North Carolina, parts of South Carolina and Virginia. In the last decade, it was one of the fastest-growing states, one suddenly populated by retirees who headed south for mild weather and pretty beaches, students gunning for tech jobs and bankers in search of good schools and big yards. It has its own festivals in Marion, Shelby and other places around the Carolina Piedmont.īut North Carolina is a different place now. Its history was entered into the Congressional Record in 1993. It's the cuisine of grandma's house, snow days and simpler times, a local delicacy some natives defend with the same loyalty they have to Carolina barbecue and Cheerwine.īack then, it was the economical way to get some meat in your diet when times were tough, a high-iron addition to a kid's lunch, or a fried-till-crispy comfort breakfast beside fat slices of tomato and muskmelon. There was a time when every North Carolina family loved – or at least knew – liver mush. This week, CNN brings you coverage from North Carolina.

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