The history of Bologna combines a distant past with modern inventions, immigration patterns, government regulations, and economic necessity, all to arrive at the boloney, mayo and American cheese on white bread staple that USA Today calls “a nutritionally dubious midday meal for millions of US students.”
VIDEO HERE (16 minutes)
I miss the old Mom and Pop country stores. Had one up in Briery Branch in the Shenandoah Valley. They had old cloth bologna and a wheel of cheese. Mama made the bread. They'd cut that bologna and cheese thick same as the bread. Even wrap it up in wax paper for ya. Man that was a sammich. Of course country ham on homemade bisquits too. I'm sure they smoked their own hams.
ReplyDeleteMy g-grandfather on Mama’s side had an old country store in Clinton Co, KY, and Mama had stories. She lived with her grandparents and helped with the store. Bologna was popular, and Mama made many a bologna sandwich in her time there. Wish I could have seen it. Her grandfather also ran the mail for the area and drove a wagon to Sommerset to pick it up.
DeleteThat America is long gone, but there are vestiges of it if you know where to look.
I lived in Clinton County for a couple of years in elementary school, then we moved over to Wayne County for middle and high school. That part of Kentucky might be one of the most beautiful areas I’ve ever lived. We used to drive over the state line to Pickett County to get beer on the weekends when I was in high school. I believe there was a place called the Gold Dust near Static and there was the package store in Bald Rock. It’s a wonder any of us survived.
DeleteI love my Bologna! It's a tastier, over stuffed hot dog.
ReplyDeleteI'll take salami over bologna any day.
ReplyDeleteI really like lips, beaks and claws. Especially like bologna with extra lips! Chicken lips? Fagedaboutit!
ReplyDeleteBologna ,hot dog pancakes.
ReplyDeleteHot dog pancake!
ReplyDeleteProtein is protein.. get the best, but when ya cant, bolagna is always better than fake meat.
ReplyDeleteChutes Magoo
Growing up and going to Catholic school in the late 50's and mid 60'sI I ate a lot of Bologna sandwiches. Most of the time I only got one slice of Bologna. It's what was available. Not my fondest memory. Oh well.
ReplyDeleteSmoke thick portions of a log when doing brisket... some good eatin'
ReplyDeleteI ate about a million of those as I was growing up, but French's mustard instead of mayo.
ReplyDeleteTrailer For Sale Or Rent
Road trips when kids was always Bologna Mustard Bread and a cold Root Beer
ReplyDeleteI can't believe no one has mentioned fried! Fried bologna and fried egg sammich.
ReplyDeleteNah, I tried frying Spam once, almost like thick bologna, but fucked up the top of our stovetop so much, my wife is still giving me grief...but, dang it was still good, and now I just microwave it with a paper towel on top, mmmmm....
Deleteway too much fried bologna for supper when i was a kid. still like it though, just not fried!
DeleteHargraves Potted meats...Chock full of peckers and lips since 1958.
ReplyDeleteFried egg, cheese, and bologna sandwich...fry the egg and bologna first, assemble and grill like a grilled cheese sandwich.
ReplyDeleteUsed to sometimes dice it up and cook it in BBQ sauce. Good sammich.
ReplyDeleteDad had a little poem about it. "Heart, liver and lung, asshole cunt and tongue, gizzard, lights, and a little pinch of dung." I still laugh about it.
ReplyDeleteIn Pittsburgh it's called Jumbo. Down here in FL the only thing that comes close is the cheapest Winn-Dixie beef baloney.
ReplyDelete