Re: Friday Night's Dinner Fare? 5/30/2025

On Sat, 31 May 2025 14:20:27 +0000, Dave Smith wrote:

On 2025-05-31 9:40 a.m., songbird wrote:

ItsJoanNotJoAnn wrote:
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Damn if a fried bologna sandwich doesn't sound tempting,
but no bologna in the house.  So it's going to be homemade
tomato soup here made with roasted tomatoes.  Maybe a
grilled cheese sandwich but at the moment maybe not.

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   that all sounds good to me.  fried bologna used to be
more common but now good bologna is as expensive as
ground chuck.  once in a while i do really want a grilled
ham and cheese with yellow mustard on rye or pumpernickle.
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Back in the 1950s when we occasionally had grilled bologna I don't think
it was possible to get good bologna. It was cheap meat, basically a
variation of a hotdog.  There was no Italian community where I lived. In
places where there were Italian communities they poor. They more
established were immigrants from a poor country and the more recent
Italian immigrants had come from a poor war torn country. The Italian
community today is a lot better off than then were 60 years ago and
there are quality cold cuts to be had.

I was looking at some cheap bologna the other day. You need some soft
white bread and mayo to make a proper sandwich. I was ready to pull the
switch but chickened out. Ironically, it was because it had chicken in
it. I don't care for chicken in sausages because of the fine bone
fragments contained within. I could go for a bologna sandwich now
because I'm pretty hungry. I'll probably just have some granola, not
bologna, granola, not bologna, granola, not bologna.