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youdaman
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posted March 28, 2007 12:26 PM
seriously...whenever i bring up having a baloney sandwich for lunch i get the grossest looks and replies. i understand what baloney is. i know that it is basically lips and rear holes packed into a casing and packaged. but how can you beat a good ole baloney sandwich with mustard. maybe its the kid in me...but i cant understand why baloney gets such a bad rap.
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posted March 28, 2007 12:46 PM
Especially if it's name is Oscar Meyer and it is spelled B-O-L-O-G-N-A!
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posted March 28, 2007 12:50 PM
They're just masking their true feelings where THEY wished they had brought a bologna sandwich to work with them. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
That was a staple of childhood for me. My Mom would get several types of cold cuts from the deli/butcher shop and bologna seemed to be in the mix every time. Always thought it cool that the style we often got (German bologna) had slices that were big enough to cover my face! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
Bologna - simple, yet wonderful. ![[worship]](graemlins/icon_pray.gif)
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posted March 28, 2007 12:57 PM
'Cause Oscar Meyer has a way with mutant gerbil D-N-A!
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posted March 28, 2007 12:59 PM
Bologna is f'n delicious...and cheap. Bring it on!
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posted March 28, 2007 01:01 PM
Let's hear it for PB&J. On toast, or better some of the BW's homemade whole wheat bread.
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posted March 28, 2007 01:06 PM
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Originally posted by Mr. Pratfall:
'Cause Oscar Meyer has a way with mutant gerbil D-N-A!
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posted March 28, 2007 01:22 PM
Mmmm...fried bologna sandwiches!
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posted March 28, 2007 01:30 PM
The best is a double decker sandwich of Raspberry Preserves and Oscar Meyer Bologna on white bread.
(Especially if you get the first slice in the pkg with the Oscar Meyer logo embossed on the bologna)
That's a good sandwich!
Fried balogna is good, too.
But I have to ask, who here eats liverwurst?
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posted March 28, 2007 02:00 PM
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Originally posted by Tripe Face:
The best is a double decker sandwich of Raspberry Preserves and Oscar Meyer Bologna on white bread.
(Especially if you get the first slice in the pkg with the Oscar Meyer logo embossed on the bologna)
That's a good sandwich!
Fried balogna is good, too.
But I have to ask, who here eats liverwurst?
When I was a kid, balogna and mayo on white bread was my favorite. When I was really hungry.. DOUBLE DECKER balogna and mayo.
Bologna and raspberry preserves?? Don't know about that....
I used to LOVE liverwurst too... it's good! But the last time I ate it, it didn't sit well....
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posted March 28, 2007 02:11 PM
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Originally posted by Produce man:
Mmmm...fried bologna sandwiches!
That's exactly the reason I don't like bologna.
When I was a kid my mother would make fried bologna sandwiches for herself. She made one for me, and I puked. Up to that point in time, I don't think I had ever been that sick in my life. I didn't think I would ever want to eat again.
Some time later, thinking I had probably gotten over it, she made me eat a bologna sandwich. Not fried, just cold. I puked. To this day regular packaged bologna just tastes and smells nasty to me. If I smell it, I get nauseated. In school, if I smelled it on another kid's breath, I got nauseated. There was one kid who used to think it was funny to spread baloney burps, and I almost hope he's dead now.
ON THE OTHER HAND, that's regular bologna, like you buy in the vacuum sealed packages at Piggly Wiggly. I had grilled bologna at Jamil's steakhouse in Tulsa and thought it was delicious. I didn't even realize it was bologna. I don't know what the difference is, but it obviously isn't the same garbage they sell in the grocery stores.
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posted March 28, 2007 02:14 PM
We would have the crushed bologna with pickle relish and mayo mixed together on sandwiches..wheat or white, crackers whatever.
Thats the bomb when it comes to anything baloney..
I myself prefer Turkey or ham lunchemat but if the baloney/relish mayo was made that takes over all others.
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posted March 28, 2007 02:18 PM
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Originally posted by Spike:
ON THE OTHER HAND, that's regular bologna, like you buy in the vacuum sealed packages at Piggly Wiggly.
Are the piggly wigglys till around? I havent seen one of those since I was a kid. I thought they went out of businnes or maybe they just moved out ofthe state. *shrugs shoulders*
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posted March 28, 2007 02:18 PM
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seriously...whenever i bring up having a baloney sandwich for lunch i get the grossest looks and replies. i understand what baloney is. i know that it is basically lips and rear holes packed into a casing and packaged. but how can you beat a good ole baloney sandwich with mustard. maybe its the kid in me...but i cant understand why baloney gets such a bad rap.
Because it's unnatural and unhealthy?
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posted March 28, 2007 02:19 PM
It can't be any worse than what makes up a hotdog! ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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posted March 28, 2007 02:30 PM
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Originally posted by TVMattNYC:
Because it's unnatural and unhealthy?
I hear you're more of a "salami" man...
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posted March 28, 2007 03:08 PM
Mmmmm! I just flashed back to my days of childhood, sitting under a tree with a bologna sandwich and a glass of grape Kool-Aid.
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posted March 28, 2007 03:25 PM
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Are the piggly wigglys till around?
Yes. I just shopped in one last night, and I passed another one just now on my way back from the bookstore. They probably just left your area.
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posted March 28, 2007 03:55 PM
One of the biggest disappointments in my life was getting to the age when Boloney/Bologna became to salty for my own good.
But on fresh, soft white bread, with a thick layer of mayo ... damn ... that was hard to beat.
And eating a boloney sandwich without American cheese should be punishable by a forced-feeding of liver.
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posted March 28, 2007 04:29 PM
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Originally posted by Produce man:
Mmmm...fried bologna sandwiches!
Mmmm...West Virginia steak sandwiches!
Least that's what we called 'em.
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posted March 28, 2007 04:43 PM
They're a staple in the south. My uncle even gets the REALLY cheap kind. You know, the kind that's dyed dark red? Real thick. I remember watching him eat a whole pack, and using some of it as bait for catfish.
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posted March 28, 2007 04:57 PM
Since we seem to enjoy discussing balogna, I thought I'd post what Wikipedia has to say about it.
Bologna sausage is an American version of the Italian mortadella (a finely hashed/ground pork sausage with lard pieces, which originated in the Italian city of Bologna). The American version can alternatively be made out of chicken, turkey, beef, pork, or soybeans. It is commonly called bologna and often pronounced (by hypercorrection) and/or spelled baloney. The "baloney" pronunciation can be used to mean "lies" and/or to express disbelief (see below).
This food is usually served in round uniform slices pre-cut in a package or sliced by a butcher, though many brands are sold as large chunks to be sliced by the consumer. Minced bologna is popularly produced and sold by Oscar Mayer, which had a famous advertising campaign in the 1970s with a well-known jingle ("My bologna has a first name, it's O-S-C-A-R..."), which was sung by Andy Lambros. There are many other manufacturers as well, including local butcher shops and grocery store meat counters.
Bologna sausage is typically served in a sandwich, often for lunch; hence, it is one of the most common "cold cuts" in the U.S. However, bologna may also be served fried or wrapped around mashed potatoes or pastry dough and baked as a version of "pigs in blankets".
Ring bologna can be found in two inch (5 cm) diameter sausages that are normally about a foot long (30 cm). These can often be found pickled in a combination of vinegar, salt, sugar and spices.
Bologna sausage is commonly believed to be created from low quality scraps of meat cuts. It is assumed that this food, therefore, is the origin of the slang word baloney, meaning "nonsense". An alternative etymology suggests that baloney is a corruption, through the French, of the city of Bologna, Italy. As the university at Bologna was known for its legal education, the French, and later English, came to call legal clap-trap balogna, or baloney.[citation needed]
Bologna is also popular breakfast food in Newfoundland, served fried as a substitute to ham slices. It is also sometimes barbecued as well. In either case, it is referred to as "Newfie Steak". Sometimes Newfoundlanders will call it "dog" as well, referring to its scrappish composition.
A similar sausage is known in Australia variably as polony, fritz, devon or strasbourg. Which name is used is dependent on which state one is in.
In Pittsburgh, bologna is sometimes referred to as "jumbo".[1] In Chicago, bologna is often called bosaus, a shortened version of bologna sausage.[2]
Nascar driver Elliot Sadler is known to be a fan of fried bologna sandwiches.
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posted March 28, 2007 05:44 PM
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Originally posted by Tripe Face:
But I have to ask, who here eats liverwurst?
I've never tried liverwurst, but from working in a deli back home in New York during my high school years, I can tell you that it was no fun having to wipe down the slicer after cutting some up for a customer.
That's some messy, slimy stuff right there.
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posted March 28, 2007 06:34 PM
Didn't they discover that Marco Polo also brought the recipe for bologna back to Italy from China, along with noodles.
As this would make it Chinese in origin, the food police would automatically condemn is as unhealthy.
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posted March 28, 2007 06:35 PM
"Why does baloney get such a bad rap?" sounds like a good investigative piece for a VJ.
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posted March 28, 2007 06:44 PM
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"Why does baloney get such a bad rap?" sounds like a good investigative piece for a VJ.
Investigative piece by a VJ. Nah, they've only been shooting for 7 months, and they'd be lucky to white balance. The bologna's color wouldn't be correct and would probably look purple. Sounds like a Dr. Suess poem...
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posted March 28, 2007 09:18 PM
Next time impress everyone around you by having a mortadella panini instead.
In truth, it's just Italian baloney, with big globules of fat floating in it. And take a look at that name. Could swear that means "of the dead."
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posted March 28, 2007 09:26 PM
As a kid...I loved eating baloney (SP?) sandwiches at my friends' houses. But when I asked mom for it, she said it was nasty.
I haven't eaten it in years, but for some unknown reason, I think it's gross.
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posted March 28, 2007 09:35 PM
There was a great exchange in "All in The Family" between Archie and Edith in which Archie rejected a beef tongue sandwich because he said it comes from a cow's mouth. As I recall Archie then asked Edith to fry him an egg. Admittedly, while an egg comes from a hen's whatever and beef tongue comes for a cow's mouth, I have never heard of a salmonella case from tongue. There aren't many things that rival smoked tongue on whole wheat with the proper condiment. Eggs lack flavor, but with the correct treatment, there aren't many things that surpass a souffle or a frittata. Yes, butter!
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posted March 28, 2007 10:07 PM
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lips and rear holes
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posted March 28, 2007 10:17 PM
I am a fan of liverwurst.
Wonder Bread, Miracle Whip, dill pickle chips, jack cheese, and liverwurst.
Haven't had that since I had angioplasty ten years ago.
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posted March 29, 2007 03:41 AM
Fat Free Bologna,
Vlasic Sweet Pickle Chips
Mustard
Wonder Bread
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posted March 29, 2007 04:12 AM
Are you folks off dairy, or what????
Please tell me you don't eat a ham sandwich without cheese, too.
And here's another vote for liverwurst and tongue.
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posted March 29, 2007 04:17 AM
Cheesy bologna wrap
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posted March 29, 2007 05:19 AM
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quote:
Originally posted by Produce man:
Mmmm...fried bologna sandwiches!
That's exactly the reason I don't like bologna.
When I was a kid my mother would make fried bologna sandwiches for herself. She made one for me, and I puked. Up to that point in time, I don't think I had ever been that sick in my life. I didn't think I would ever want to eat again.
Some time later, thinking I had probably gotten over it, she made me eat a bologna sandwich. Not fried, just cold. I puked. To this day regular packaged bologna just tastes and smells nasty to me. If I smell it, I get nauseated. In school, if I smelled it on another kid's breath, I got nauseated. There was one kid who used to think it was funny to spread baloney burps, and I almost hope he's dead now.
ON THE OTHER HAND, that's regular bologna, like you buy in the vacuum sealed packages at Piggly Wiggly. I had grilled bologna at Jamil's steakhouse in Tulsa and thought it was delicious. I didn't even realize it was bologna. I don't know what the difference is, but it obviously isn't the same garbage they sell in the grocery stores.
Hey, I've eaten that bologna at Jamil's. I can't say I cared for the cabbage roll though. I can't get over the cinnimon they put inside the cabbage roll.
Crap, now I'm hungry for a Jamil's steak. . .
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posted March 29, 2007 05:37 AM
Hi All.....I loves me some balogna. It was a staple in our household as I was growing up. I remember being four and eating breakfast with my grandma after the other kids had went to school. The breakfast was a fried egg, piece of fried bologna, and a piece of french toast or a pancake. All of it would be covered in syrup. Mmmmmm, been a while since I've had that breakfast. I still eat fried or cold balogna sandwiches all the time, tho I get the 98% low fat (it used to be fat free) Oscar Meyer brand now. For those of you in the OH-KY-WV area, you HAVE to know that the BEST way to eat ANY sandwich is to use Heiners bread (either the red bagged Old Fashioned or the Sunny Buns). Cover that bread with some Miracle Whip, garlic powder, and add a slice of American cheese, and you've got one VERY happy dewlove.
Also, I love balogna/ham salad. Grind the meat and some cheese, add onions, mayo/miracle whip, and sweet relish. YUM. At the country general store I worked at right out of high school, we would use the meat and cheese ends (the last bit of the bologna, ham, old fashioned loaf, pickle loaf, and any other "red" luncheon meat that was now too small for the slicer) to make our own. It's also good with some hard boiled egg whites in there too.
Man, I needs me some bologna.
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posted March 29, 2007 05:57 AM
Bologna? Damn right!
Liverwurst? When I was a kid, don't think I'd try it now.
But the worst of the wurst?
HEAD CHEESE!
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.......
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posted March 29, 2007 06:59 AM
Head cheese is awful. But so is olive loaf. It's like bologna with olives mixed in.
As kids, my sister and I would see that at the deli an call it 'barf loaf.' I think you can see why. I have nothing against a bologna sandwich. As long as it contains the most important ingredients: pringles between the bread.
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posted March 29, 2007 07:46 AM
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Crap, now I'm hungry for a Jamil's steak. . .
I've been hungry for a Jamil's steak for about seven years. My brother and I have even been talking about making a road trip to Tulsa just to eat meat:
Jamil's on one day
Ron's the next
Find a place with a big ol' fried steak the third day; there was a place on Peoria that had monstrous fried steak, but I forget the name.
If I had a fourth day, I might get a 2lb burrito at Atomic, if they're still around.
It's thinking about the ten hours back home in the car after all that meat that keeps me from making the trip. That, and the fact that other than the meat, Tulsa is really lame.
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posted March 29, 2007 09:05 AM
Sweetwater Tavern.
Drunken Ribeye.
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