fried bologna

A comfort food for me. Husband doesn't think much of bologna. (just found myself singing the Oscar Mayer song in my head for that spelling) I have used PAM or even stuck it in the microwave if eating on the run. Must be served on white bread with yellow mustard & sweet pickles. Add chips & you're good to go.

i still make it sometimes, but i use a cast-iron grill weight to keep it from curling instead of slitting the edges. keeps it from drying out too quickly as well.

Fried bologna is great. I used to make it all the time. I just put it on bread with ketchup. Kind of like pork

Fried Pepperoni is good too.

I like my fried bologna cooked in a black cast iron skillet...fry it to the point of burning (crispy) slap it on two slices of bread with Hellman's Mayo and a fried egg with the yellow almost hard. Now that's EATING AT IT'S FINEST!!

FLUFFY

I grew up on fried bologna sandwiches. It was the one thing as a little girl that I could cook on my own.

After my husband and I got married I made a sandwitch for lunch one day. He looked at me like I was looney when I started frying my bologna, as he had never heard this before. So I made him a sandwitch and he was hooked.

As for being a breakfast food, I dunno.

Folks,
Being a son of the south, boloney and I have been acquainted from the get go. I've prepared and eaten these floor scraps in every way I can think of. Last summer I even slow smoked about a six inch hunk in my Bradley smoker, did quite a few prep tricks, took most of a day. It always comes out as BALONEY. Please give me some tips.

There is a large company that used to make very good bologne. I can't the name or I'll be escorted to the edge of town. Last time I had it there was more fat then meat. Dad used to eat it all the time, but then dad used to finish off every meal with ice cream and chocolate syrup.

The ring bologne was really good though, we would just slice it up and dunk it in catsup as a snack. And I wonder why I just had grape nuts for lunch!

I slice pieces maybe 1/2" thick off a chub I buy from Sav-A-Lot. I smoke for an hour in my water smoker that has some dampened wood chips going and then baste each piece with a fiery hot mixture of BBQ and hot sauce and smoke another 15 minutes. Pop on a hamburger bun loaded liberally with some cole slaw and I'm in heaven.

I like to nuke mine for a couple minutes iu a bowl with some ranch dressing or barbecue or whatever sauce so it doesn't get too dry, then cut it up and put it in an omellete that I also nuke. Pre-nuke some onions and peppers for this and lay off the sauce works for me, too.

When I'm in a hurry, I put the bologna in the bowl with raw onions and peppers, nook it on the "reheat" setting, add a couple~three eggs, hit the "reheat" button, then mix the mess with some cheese and nook it on "reheat" again, then make a sandwich that I can put my sauce on and walk out the door with. It may not be too obvious, but I can, say, brush my teeth during the first "reheat" session, step in the shower on the second, and get dressed during the final one. If I could only make some toast while the microwave was one and not trip a breaker . . .

another favorite of mine: when the balogna is fried crispy and ready to come put of the pan, i add a generous splash of Worcestershire sauce (french's or lea and perrins) and continue cooking until the liquid evaporates and formes a glaze on the meat. serve on crusty bread with mustard

makes a mess in the pan, but the extra cleaning is worth it.

Milwfoodlovers-How was your trip?????Maybe on another thread?

I always loved the smell of fried bologna with peppers and onions,for breakfast lunch or dinner.

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Originally posted by Ashphalt

Can be served on buttered grilled bread, with mustard, or even sliced cheese or fried egg.

Yeppers, I prefer my fried bologna sammich with sliced cheese AND fried egg.

WOW FRIED BOLOGNA.. I grew up eating this.. Yet there were 7 kids.. I just thought it was a cheap meal.. LOL

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Originally posted by ROCKIN_L

WOW FRIED BOLOGNA.. I grew up eating this.. Yet there were 7 kids.. I just thought it was a cheap meal.. LOL

It still is a cheap meal although a good one if you like bologna

Paul E. Smith
Knoxville, TN

After many items at the Henpeck Market on the Nashville Tour, i noticed the menu posted down the hallway towards the rest rooms. The "Elvis" was white bread, thick sliced fired bologna and pepperjack cheese. i regret seeing it to late and on the way out, the owner/manager said it was his favorite. Easy enough to try at home...just never thought of the pepperjack angle.

Isn't a roll of bologna just a really big Hot Dog, or is the Hot Dog just a skinny bologna roll?

My Mom fied bologna for sandwiches and for breakfast while I was growing up. I haven't eaten sliced bologna in a while, I tend to buy the spice Red Hots and fry them.

I'm such a weirdo...the thought of eating a fried boloney sandwich grosses me out, yet I'll cut it up in slices and eat it with scrambled eggs for breakfast or a last minute dinner! Of course, growing up we ate freakin' eggs scrambled with everything: boloney, hot dogs, Fritos, refried beans, potatoes, corn tortillas, flour tortillas.... my dad loved eggs and when things were tight we always had eggs for dinner. I asked my hubby about frying baloney and he said that's the only way he's ever had it. I guess since my mom never fried it for us, I just never got used to it.

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Originally posted by ROCKIN_L

WOW FRIED BOLOGNA.. I grew up eating this.. Yet there were 7 kids.. I just thought it was a cheap meal.. LOL

Yep, there were five of us in a bunch, then Little Sister came along later. 'Tater soup was seen quite often on our table as were pinto beans and cornbread. Those are still three of my favorite foods as are fried b'loney sammiches.

Ah, fried bologna. I don't care if people think it's white trash cookin', it's good stuff. Haven't really had it for close to 20 years, so that needed rectifying.

I just made a fried bologna sandwich from the stuff I had hanging around the fridge. Two slices sourdough bread, three slices chicken bologna, some sharp cheddar, a bit of mayo, Plochman's mustard and (since there were no dill pickles for some reason) a little smooth Branston Pickle from the British import store (it's been skulking in the door of the fridge for about a month, rolling the ketchup for its lunch money). I just dry-fried the bologna in a nonstick skillet.

Oh, it was SO GOOD.

When I lived in Dunbar, WV (near Charleston) the was a roadside stand that had fried bologna sandwiches as the house speciality. They usually put catsup on them. Sure was good eating.

I get hungry everytime I visit this thread. I actually love fried bologna for breakfast...it's great with an egg and cheese on a kaiser role...especially if you don't have porkroll!

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Originally posted by BBq King

When I lived in Dunbar, WV (near Charleston) the was a roadside stand that had fried bologna sandwiches as the house speciality. They usually put catsup on them. Sure was good eating.

I had my very first fried bologna sandwich at a little sandwich shop on Hale Street in downtown Charleston in October, 1965.

How's that for having a great memory?

Leethebard, we don't have porkrolls here, but fried bologna sandwiches are huge in this area, and very common in restaurants.

I don't know about anyone else, but I always add bacon to mine. It sends the flavor through the roof, I gar-on-tee!

Sometimes I even have a BBLTC! (Bologna-Bacon-Lettuce-Tomato-Cheese!)

I'm gonna have to experience a porkroll sometime, though.

Hey that BBLTC sounds pretty good,Too!!!

Cut up some cubes of Baloney (About the size of 7 come 11 casino dice), whip up come Country white gravy with loads of fresh ground pepper, throw the baloney in there, heat it up good and pour the mixture over some fresh made Biscuits, (Eggs on top is optional) hit it with some hot sauce and I Guar-on-tee it's better than sex!

Foodbme, that's a new one on me, but it sounds great! In the immortal words of Roy Orbison, "Mercy!"

Has anyone ever heard of bologna spread? I understand it's made by grinding bologna and adding mayo, pickle relish, etc. Similar to tuna salad. I've never had it, but I may just have to give it a shot.

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Originally posted by MellowRoast

Has anyone ever heard of bologna spread? I understand it's made by grinding bologna and adding mayo, pickle relish, etc. Similar to tuna salad. I've never had it, but I may just have to give it a shot.

Wow, that sounds nasty to me. Is this a homemade thing, or something you buy in a store?

Also - for the porkroll eaters - do you call it Taylor Ham or Porkroll?

Mimi Sheraton and Alan King (yes, the comedian) co-authored a book

Is Salami and Eggs Better Than Sex? Memoirs of a Happy Eater.

It's a great read. Very funny.