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

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.

 
   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.

  yes, we have a local meat company that makes them and back
then they were in business, when we moved to this area we
started buying their hotdogs, bologna and braunschweiger
and a few other things we don't get often any more (olive
loaf and there was also one with cheese bits in it that i've
not seen in eons).  we used their ring bologna to make
pickle and bologna (bologna, onion, pickles ground up, add
mayo and cheese and broil that quickly open faced on good
bread - we were talking of making this recently but i don't
want to make a lot of it because of what happened last time
we made it (it spoiled - a very expensive failure :( )).

 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 would love a certain italian sausage i've never been able
to find other than upnorth in the western UP of MI.  that is
a wish for me to find out sometime and it may take a trip up
there to do it.  long drive.  i should write a letter...


  songbird