Fried Bologna & Other Southern Sandwiches
Southern Plate is more than just me typing and chatting away. In fact, YOU are the most important part of SouthernPlate.com. With that in mind, I hope you’ll take time to leave a comment and share your favorite sandwich from your childhood. See bottom of this post for more details! Gratefully, Christy 
When my mama was a girl they had a tradition of going out riding through the countryside on Sunday afternoons. They’d stop off at a little store to have thick slices of bologna cut off and made into bologna and cheese sandwiches. Pair that with a bottled drink and they were living high on the hog! “There just wasn’t anything like getting to ride in that car and look out the window while you ate a bologna sandwich!”.
This treat was passed down to my generation when we often sat down for lunch with a big loaf of bread and a stack of cheese slices in the middle of the table while Mama fried up bologna in a skillet. We’d each make our own sandwich and I’d make mine just like my brother did: Fried bologna, cheese, and potato chips settled in between two pieces of “loaf bread”.
Bologna sandwiches, sometimes referred to as “the poor man’s steak”, are such a part of our culture, they’re even used to gauge a person’s character. On the day we got married, my husband’s best man, Jim, had driven in a ways and was planning on staying overnight before heading back. He stayed with my Grandmother, who lived across the road from what was to be our new home. It had been quite a day with the wedding and reception and that evening Grandmama and Jim went out on her porch to relax and look out over the river.
For supper, Grandmama made the two of them bologna sandwiches.
To Grandmama, Jim and my husband represented a new generation, with a huge divide between folks her age and them. Grandmama had grown up dirt poor and picking cotton all of her life and here was this young man newly graduated from college with an engineering degree whose experience with her world had been nothing more than glancing at the cotton as the car went by. Its sometimes a little intimidating for folks who come from such humble backgrounds in situations like this, but when Jim accepted that bologna sandwich, it spoke volumes to Grandmama about the type of person he was at heart. Even now whenever he is mentioned she always chimes, in,
“That Jim is just a real good boy, he sat out there on the porch and ate a bologna sandwich with me”.
To make the sandwich from my childhood you’ll need: Bread, cheese, mayo…
and potato chips
My brother taught me the wonders of a potato chip sandwich over thirty years ago.
I think it almost made up for him cutting the entire side of my hair off a few years later.
Now we have to fry out bologna. I always cut a slit halfway through to keep it from curling up into a bowl as it fries.
I prefer Zeigler bologna because it is made in Alabama. I try to buy as close to home as I can because last thing we want is to end up relying on a company halfway across the country for our food supplies. I think it’s best to support local suppliers to ensure that you have local suppliers. Zeigler’s has been around for over seventy five years. Their main plant is in Tuscaloosa and our own highly respected Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant was once an owner of the company as well.
Reminder to all: I am not into football but Alabamians take their football very seriously.
So whatever team you are for, GO THEM!
You don’t need to spray your pan or anything, just put your bologna in it and cook it on medium, turning after it browns on one side. Some folks like there is just barely heated but I actually like a wee bit of black on mine
Note to myself: You use the word “actually” too much, stop it. Now. Seriously.
~sighs~
Oh lawd, that’s some good eatin’!
I always smoosh it a bit to crunch the chips down some
Grandmama, I’m a real good girl because I still eat bologna sandwiches!
A few posts back we got into a comment discussion on strange sandwich combinations we grew up on. It was a fascinating comment section and we all really got a hoot out of reading it. I’d like to devote this comment section to those sandwiches. What did you grow up on? What brands do you insist on and why?
Mayonaise sandwich? Mustard sandwich? PB and banana? Tell us all about it! Also, why do you think Southerners eat such strange sandwich combinations-ketchup sandwich, anyone?
I think it is due to lack of food. When food was scarce, you could put something between two slices of bread, call it a sandwich and then it suddenly seemed like a meal. What do you think?
If there is anything else you wanna talk about in the comments section, feel free to do that, too.
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Light bread, Hellmans Mayo, fresh tomatoes and fried Bologna!!!! Nothing better….takes me right back to my grandma’s kitchen in Tuscaloosa Alabama!!!!! Yum Yum!!
and the real treat is that something took you back to that wonderful kitchen!!!
Grateful to you and your Grandma,
Christy
Dear Christy
When I was a little girl my gran used to make dripping toast or dripping sammiches – yes, even here, with the fat from bacon/ sausages or whatever. Originally from the Sunday roast but you could and still can buy it from an old-fashioned butchers.
My friend however ( and this was only a short time after sugar rationing had ended) used to eat sugar sammiches as her Mum thought it was “posh”. Times have changed so fast.
I LOVE sugar sandwiches…white bread, white sugar, and Fleishman’s margarine… yes, it was my Mom’s comfort food when I was hungry, sad, or whatever and she couldn’t get anything cooked in a hurry. Also love Miracle Whip sandwiches, just MW and white bread, preferably Wonder Bread, funny how that all takes you back. In summer we added ‘maters to that sandwich and if there was some in the house, thick cut bologna.
I loved Fried bologna and scrambled egg sandwiches! Another great sandwich is pineapple and mayo. My granddaddy loved them!
oh I LOVE fried bologna and scrambled eggs!!
I’ve never had pineapple and may but have heard others talk about how good it is. I need to get to trying that one!
oh, stephanie, and christy….me too! one of my fav breakfast’s was when mama pulled out the cast iron skillet, fried up slices of bologna, just until they curled and fried eggs, put the fried eggs into the curled up meat……she called it “egg in a hat”. good times. and, on a hot GA summer’s day, a cool creamy pineapple and KRAFT mayo sandwich was the best.
Fried bologna and egg is good.. BUT Fired bologna and a thick slice of onion along with MIRACLE WHIP!! Now you’re talking great!!!
Ok, so we ate bologna sammiches (yes sammiches) and pressed ham, had to have them dressed and with bananna cream cookies…but I stopped eating them a long time ago…UNTIL I was introduced to Ziegler’s Bologna when I moved to Alabama…Lawd da mercy…hmmmmm…guess I know what’s for lunch now…lol…but I can’t find the bananna cream cookies anywhere
Ooh DJ, I know the cookies you are talking about! They are hard to find because well..most folks don’t see the “specialness” in them! They are basically, cheap cookies in most people’s eyes but you and I (and the blessed old folks!) know how wonderful they are!
I always have the best luck when I go to little hometown locally owned markets and grocery stores. Go where folks shop for the good old stuff and I’ll bet you’ll find them!
The older the grocery store, the better!!!!
I hope you find them soon!
Christy
Believe it or not, Krogers and Dollar Tree has banana creme cookies in TN.
There is no other bologna but Zeiglers. But we call it baloney.
Love the fact that you called them sammiches, DJ. My dad, now deceased, used to tell my children that he was making them sammiches. Brought back some beautiful memories.
One of my favs is peanut butter and banana sammiches. But you have to mash the banana in a bowl and then add the peanut butter. Only then is it ready to spread on the bread. That’s the way my mama taught me to make them.
Ok..its Blue Plate mayo, Bryan Bologna,Kraft american cheese, and Lays wavy chips..Now that is one great sandwich!!
Amen!
Fried bologna Is good no matter how you eat It! I love eating It on toasted bread, with mayo, cheese, and thick sliced maters with a dash of salt. Yummy!
I’ve never tried It with chips……I do have a habit of eating those In with bacon sandwiches. They always give It a bit more crunch! You can’t seem to go wrong with whatever kind of chips you use either. Although Bugles seem to be my preferred choice.
Every so often I’ll get a craving for a bologna & PB sandwich. Surely I’m not the only one! It sounds weird, I know, but as they say…don’t knock It till you try it! ;0
By the way Christy, your fried bologna sorta looks like Pac-Man! lol First thing that came to mind when I saw It! hehe
Shane,
I just love getting to hear from you! The bad thing is…I actually remember when PacMan was first introduced!
and now you’ve got me wanting bacon….
Bologna and PB actually doesn’t sound that bad to me…I think I’ll give it a go.
Have you ever put pb on a slice of hot toast? It melts just like butter. Oh my goodness, good!
My hubby (from Toone TN, pop 300) eats bologna, mustard and peanut butter sammies ALL the time! He swears byt them but all I have to say is GROSS!! (although he likes to eat braunschweiger (sp?) too…liver cheese is what I call it…yuck! I would rather the bologna anyday. =) )
I think we’re gonna be having fried bologna sammies this week for supper. yum!
OmGosh I grew up on pb and jelly toast, and up until I got married I thought that was a normal breakfast food until my husband looked at me like I was crazy, but once he tried it he’s been eating it every since. There is nothing like melted pb on toast! It just oozes yumminess!!
And I thought I was the only one that ever ate balonie and peanut butter. It’s good to know that someone else has found the
joy of a good sandwich. You might want to try a banana sandwich with salt and pepper. My mother always put salt and pepper on the bananas when she made these growing up so I thought everyone
ate salt and pepper on their banana sandwiches until someone at work saw me making one. They thought I was a little weird
after that. The salt and pepper does something to the bananas to bring out the taste and it’s oh so gooood!!!
We just had plain bologna sandwiches. I will have to fry one up to share with my daughter. BUT my favorite sandwich growing up was my Grandmother’s Pimento Cheese and pickle sandwiches. They were the best.
Oh I’m gonna do a pimento cheese tutorial using my grandmother’s recipe in October!!
YUM!!! Did your grandmother put pickle on the sandwich of a little bit of it chopped in the pimento cheese?
I love pimento cheese, I ate it as a child with crackers.Now I make sammies with it. I cant wait to try your recipe.
My gracious, I was reading the comments and saw yours. Yes, my mema made us piimento cheese and dill pickle sandwiches. I loved green onion (from my pawpaws’s garden) and Helmans too.
I grew up eating fried bologna sandwiches. Love them, and I’m not from the south. Illinois, although it’s southern Illinois. Apparently, we were years ahead of our time. Have you seen that Hardee’s now offers a bologna and scrambled egg biscuit?
We used to love fried bologna biscuits for breakfast. If you’re from Southern Illinois, doesn’t that make you technically a Southerner? ~grins~
Yes it does make you a Southerner…believe me..me and my people are all from Southern Illinois and we are as southern as they come! Love the fried boglgna! We also had Miracle whip on bread or toast!
OH SUSAN!! You had me believing you were Southern until you mentioned Miracle Whip!! Southerners use Duke’s Mayo (at least all the Southerners I know…and I know a lot of ‘em). I guess you can still be Southern if that’s the only unSouthern thing you use!!
I live in a small town in Arkansas and our local Walmart does not carry Dukes Mayo.
I was also raised in Southern Illinois, Mt. Vernon, and you just don’t dare call us yankees, those are people from Chicago or north of Springfield! You might get in trouble up there because most of the old families came from Kentucky and TN and those sure aren’t Yankees!
Growing up, I was raised by my grandmother. Money was very tight and we always had either bologna or peanut butter on hand to eat. She would have to budget her social security money so whatever we bought had to last the month. We drank alot of lemonaide and tea and got a gallon of milk every two weeks. On the rare occasions that we did have extra money we got ham and cheese lunch meat. I always thought that was a treat when she could afford to buy it.
My oldest brother was the first in the family to get married. I was 5 or 6 years old and my brother and his new wife invited me to spent the night with them. When I got home, Mama asked me if Janice was a good cook? I told Mama that she made a good bologna sandwich.
I thought that I was the only one who put potato chips on my bologna sandwiches. I love the crunch it adds to it, but I have to have Miracle Whip instead of Mayo.
Two slices of fried SPAM on loaf bread with heavy mayo. Round it out with some baby gherkins and my MawMaw’s cornmeal crusted fried potatoes. Those were the days!
Thick slices of homegrown tomato, mayo and cheddar cheese on loaf bread is my husband’s greatest culinary treat.
I remain faithful to pimento cheese spread. My mom made the best and every time I eat a sandwich of this divine stuff, I am transported to a hot day on the Gulf Coast with a cool salty breeze.
Another peculiar (at least it is peculiar if you now live out west…) food combo from my childhood was slices of cold Spam served with black-eyed peas and iced tea.
my favorie sammich is fried bologna and cuke. then peanut butter and onion pnutbutter and cukes or pickle and for dessert pnut butter and marshmellow creme. IM FROM minnesota and everyone here in california think im crazy hugs sally
I just had a fried balogna sandwich last week.. But that was before I went to the cardiologist yesterday. Balogna will not pass my lips again.. sniff.. sniff.
I think of pac0man when I look at that picture, lol.
oops, pac man.
I detest bologna…until it is fried. Man, it is so yummy on a sandwich and in a canned biscuit. We always had Ziegler growing up and I always had mine fixed the same exact way as you…chips and all. (Well, ACTUALLY, we always had Bama mayo.) We also had fried weenies (hotdogs) in our canned biscuits as well. When my mama would cut the bologna half way like you did to keep it from curling up, my brother and I would call it a pacman sandwich. I tried to tell that story to my daughter thinking she would think it was funny, but she had no idea who pacman was.
OH WOW! Here we are, some of us remembering when PacMan was first introduced and some of us having no idea what PacMan is!
He’s done come and gone in our time.
Okay, now I’m feelin’ old….
I used to use Bama mayo but when I found out it was owned by Welchs, I felt so misled! lol
My readers have sworn up and down over Duke’s and its made in one of the Carolinas so that works for me.
I still can’t help but feel proud when I see the name “Bama” though but I’m pretty certain it isn’t made in the south. ~pouts~
Christy, I love Bama mayo too, but Duke’s is good when I can’t get Bama. I was also surprised to find that Bama wasn’t made in Alabama. (go figure!!) I just read an article online. Bama mayo was purchased by CF Sauer Co. and Welchs got the Bama jelly and peanut butter products.
About The C.F. Sauer Company
Founded on October 13, 1887 by 21-year-old Conrad Frederick (C.F.) Sauer, Sr., the original C.F. Sauer Company manufactured, packaged and sold pure flavoring extracts in five- and ten-gram cartoned bottles. Today, The C.F. Sauer Company remains family owned and managed and is a leading manufacturer of Duke’s Mayonnaise, cooking oils and salad dressings; The Spice Hunter exotic spices, spice blends and natural foods; Bama Mayonnaise; and Sauer’s spices, flavorings and extracts. For additional information about The C.F. Sauer Company and its brands, visit http://www.CFSauer.com or call 1-800-688-5676
http://carolinanewswire.com/news/News.cgi?database=1news.db&command=viewone&id=4097&op=t
Zeigler THICK SLICED bologna, fried with just mayo. I still eat them to this day. We also ate corned beef hash sandwiches with tomatoes and mayo. We would fry the hash and then put it hot on our sandwiches. Takes me back.
Oh now when we got the thick sliced, we were livin’ like the rich folks! We only got thin when we were little but as we got in a better financial situation Mama started buying the thick!
I love hash!
Who says you must eat fried bologna in a sandwich?? I eat it like steak! Just knife and fork. It was a delicacy when I was growing up, and I’m not from the south. I’m from Ohiya! ha ha Here we eat Dinner Bell bologna. My dad loves grilled ground bologna sandwiches (like ham salad, with bologna, mayo and relish, grilled on buttered bread). That’s something I could never get into, but pure bliss to him with Ballreich’s potato chips – local favorite.
Oh my…the ground grilled bologna salad sounds HEAVENLY!!!!!
What is Ballreich’s? Never heard of it!
Ballreich’s potato chips are a northwestern Ohio chip company, and they are good chips. I’m from northeastern Ohio, and cousins bring them when they visit.
There is a southwestern Ohio chip called Mike-sells, and they are even slightly (SLIGHTLY) better than Ballreich’s.
However, unless they are stale or rancid, is there such a thing as a BAD potato chip???? (Pringles are another category altogether, and do not count for ME as potato chips at all. I like the cheese ones.)
I prefer my bologna cold, not fried. The local brand in my corner of the world is called Superior’s.
However, my all time favorite sandwich is Jif Creamy (now made by Smucker’s, another Ohio company!) on whole wheat bread, either homemade (easypeasy when you let your processor knead), or on Cleveland’s Orlando Baking Company’s Deli Wheat. This is where my individuality/weirdness comes in: I do not like jelly or jam on my peanut butter sandwiches. I like a jelly sandwich, but never “peanut butter and jelly.”
Peanut butter toast is good when I am not dressed in church or appointment clothes!
Lawrence
Ballreich’s is just a locally made ruffled potato chip. They are divine. I think they are just a little greasier than the average chip, and what could possibly be wrong with that?
I have always had fried bologneee sammiches. My house could have nothing but Zieglers. We would sometimes go straight to the fridge and get a cold “bolognee” or cold hot dog and snack on it then. And never anything buy BAMA mayo.
Like Patricia, I’m not from the South, not even “South” anything – I’m from Jersey but spent my “formative” years in Philly. My grandmom always made fried bologna sandwiches when I was staying with her.
We did thin sliced bologna, fried with onions and mustard on white (or rye if she had visited my great grandpa in South Philly).
Even now, almost 40 years later, I still get that “want” for a fried bologna sandwich. Since I need to go to the store a little later, perhaps I will have one for dinner mmmmm.
I’ve got two for you! One from my mom – atomic sandwiches. Loaf bread with honey, raisens, and peanut butter. And one my dad loves — loaf bread with mayonnaise, cheddar cheese and pineapple rings. And egg and olive from Trowbridges — divine~!
Fried Bologna was a staple in our house…we liked it fried, then grilled, with my Grandfather’s homemade hot tomato ketchup or chow chow on it. Oh MY!
also loved Peanut Butter, Banana and Miracle Whip. One had to mash the banana and mix it with the PB & Miracle Whip. The MW kept it from sticking to the roof of your mouth. Had to be on white bread, or this is equally good spread on saltines.
Potato Chip sandwiches…mayo of course.
Pimento Cheese and tomato sandwiches, with Grandmom’s homemade Lime pickles on the side.
Peanut Butter and Vidalia onion. Only in the Spring with REAL Vidalias.
Slap yo’ grandma good……jes’ gimmie two slices of thin bread, KRAFT mayo, cold slice or two of boloney (yes, boloney, like i said), teensy hint of yellow mustard and pacxk on the FRITOS!!! food of the gods. many a summer day at day camp, this was my fav choice. or take the tomato, lettuce version, fully salted and peppered and i could’a died and gone to heaven. cheap, yes we did that, didnt everybody watch their pennies waay back when? i never minded a minute and never knew we were on a budget, by the way i got to eat. hmmmm, i’m hungry now. darn, i am out of bologna. dangit, christy now i am in a bind hankerin’ for bologna.
pssst, billgent, sorry to hear your doctor is cramping your style. hugs to you.
I loved this post. Ever since my children were little we would stop at a little country store to buy bologna and cheese to put on bread with ketchup.
We then ate them with rootbeer bought at Rabbit Hash General Store in Rabbit Hash KY! Nothing like sitting on the banks of the Ohio eating a simple sandwich with all my children there.
My oldest was married in May and lives out west. Everytime I eat bologna it triggers this memory and your post brought on some happy tears. We all love for our children to grow up, go to school get married and be happy but why does it have to hurt so darn much to let them go just the same???
Thanks.
The only thing you are missing from that fried balogna sandwich is some Duke’s mayonaise!!
Now Ann-Margaret ~grins~ , I put Duke’s in the picture specifically for my Duke’s fans! Y’all are the ones who turned me on to it so that is why I bought it , coz of y’all!
~giggles~
Look up there, I swear its in the photo! hehehe
Thick sliced Fried Bologna Sandwich on toasted bread with cheese was my favorite growing up. Zeigler’s was the best but Oscar Meyer was a close second in our house.
I like fried bologna, too!
In my house, we were partial to mayo and pineapple, mayo and tomato, pimento cheese, and egg and olive. I still make all those sandwiches for my own children. My daddy ate banana and mayo sandwiches, but this one did not make it to my house as an adult. Notice these all have mayo in them–LOL. We love some Duke’s at my house.
Oh, and we also eat peanut butter nad honey, as well as peanut butter and banana.
I always thought all of these were normal sandwiches??
Oh Betsy I am so glad you mentioned banana & mayo sandwiches. My mother was from North Carolina, she grew up on a tobacco farm. She used to love banana & mayo sandwiches. But anytime I mention them to anyone I know now they look at me like I have 2 heads. MMMM-I can taste it right now. Come to think of it I think I have bananas in the kitchen…gotta go!
Betsy and Rebecca — never mind the odd looks. I get those looks from my own children (okay, they’re 16 to 21 y/o now) when I eat a peanut butter and mayo sandwich — which is elevated to a whole new level with the addition of bananas! My Dr. would scold me, but I don’t think he reads this blog. ~.^
PB & honey is also wonderful!
When I was younger, in the summertime, I’d make myself strawberries & Cool Whip sandwiches, often using cinnamon sugar to sprinkle on the strawberries. Slather Cool Whip onto both slices of bread, top with sliced strawberries, sprinkle w/cinnamon sugar, top w/other prepared bread slice and eat! It was like having strawberry shortcake for lunch.
I grew up eating a fried bologna smmich,and when I leave this ole world wouldn’t mind a bit for my last meal be it a fried bologna and mater sammich..:)ole Harold from Floyd Va
Growing up it was pretty much down to three for me: BLT (no mayo, thanks) on toast, grilled cheese (2 pieces please!) with tomato soup, and one that people just can’t seem to wrap their heads around: peanut butter and applesauce. That one I got from the school cafeteria. It sounds strange, but is really yummy with vegetable soup.
I just stir a huge spoonful into a few spoonfuls of applesauce, then smear it on my bread and top with a second slice. It really is good. (Better than grape jelly anyway!)
Oh – and I like some pickled bologna with cheese and crackers.
We would take a couple of spoons of peanut butter and stir in Karo syrup for sandwiches! Or just dip a biscuit in it! I think this is better than jelly and will have to try the applesauce too!
When we were kids,it wasn’t always a sandwich we’d grab for lunch.
It was a can of “vi-e-ner’s” and we’d dip ‘um in a big ole blob of mayo! What were we thinkin’?
MUSTARD AND ONION on LOAF BREAD!!! NOTHING BETTER! (Yellow mustard-not some fancy brown stuff!)
Fried Baloney sandwiches taste good to my generation (great-grandma), but you should hear all my sons laugh about how Dad used to fry baloney for their sandwiches. My very favorite sandwich is peanut butter and tomato. Peanut butter on one slice of white bread, margarine on the other and big slices of tomato in between. Have never heard of anyone outside of my family who eats those.
When I was a kid I liked peanut butter and Miracle Whip sandwiches(to this day I use Miracle Whip and I am now 69 years old.) My late brother liked pork and bean sandwiches, when we would have pork and beans for lunch, he would put a slice of bread on his plate and put the pork and beans on top. I do that occasionally, so far I haven’t been brave enough to see if I still like the peanut butter and Miracle Whip combo. My late Aunt would butter a slice of bread and put slices of onion on it when her nose was all stuffed up with a cold, she always said it made breathing easier. Oh yes,also when I was a kid sometimes for a snack I would butter a slice of bread and spread a layer of brown sugar on it, I can still see that, although, having adult onset diabetes, I haven’t had that for several years.
My grandmother used to make pork and bean sandwiches. I would fight and fight eating them. Now I’m in college, pretty broke, and ALWAYS hungry. I butter two pieces of white bread, put some pork and beans on them, and just eat them up. So good!! Peanut butter and banana sandwiches are something I’ll have a lot too. Yummmmy! =)
My 21 year old grandaughter prefers her tuna salad between two slices of toast, and after I tried it I decided it is nice change.
I used to eat Pringles sandwiches…BBQ or sour cream & onion flavored. Just Pringles and white bread! Yum
I’m from North Carolina and I grew up eating pickle and cheese sandwiches. I loved them! Had to have one every afternoon after school! I also grew up on spam sandwiches and my dad loved to eat tomato and mayo sandwiches.
I too grew up with fried balogna sandwiches. I in turn fed them to my kids. I only make them with three slices, half way to the center. I also like some black. I either want it fried good, or not at all. I also like cold balogna sandwiches with a big slice of raw onion. I always use mustard with balogna. Can’t imagine using mayo with balogna. My parents were both born in NM and I live in NM now. So I never thought of a fried balogna sandwich as southern fare. Although I am from southern NM. LOL
Yes, we had fried bologna, banana sandwiches with mayo; love toasted pimento cheese. I lived in MI for awhile, and the pimento cheese is hard to locate in the grocery store and when you ask for it, no one knows what you are talking about.
I love toasted BLT’s, although maybe not as obscure, rarely do I hear much about those being common sandwiches to make at home.
And I can’t close without a tribute to cucumber sandwiches ~ cucumbers with mayo. Yum!
Although not in my menus, I have heard of pickle sandwiches.
Here’s to a happy palette!
I totally forgot about cucumber sandwiches. My grandmother used to make them “fancy” for us, and she’d mix half cream cheese and half mayo. I still love cucumber sandwiches, but I’m lazy, and I just spread one side of bread with cream cheese and the other with mayo.
In addition to Fried Bologna (never understood the spelling of it…should be boloney) sandwiches, my stepdad loved Fried Spam Sandwiches…my Mom would slice em thin and fry em; slap some good yellow mustard on the white bread and Tadah!(Probably followed by a blood pressure and cholestrol pill)LOL!! Way too salty…but good!
My Mom’s favortie sandwich was cream cheese and pineapple sandwiches…soften some cream cheese, add a small can of drained crushed pineapple and you got yourself a good sandwich! Not until I was grown, did I discover this is a dip served at fancy-smancy wedding receptions…
As far as the potato chips…I am going on 49 years young and still to this day eat em on all sorts of sandwiches…especially subs and ham sandwiches…That there is some good stuff!!
Great story, but what kind of person wouldn’t accept food thats made for them? That would be so rude! I try anything, and with a smile and gracious thank you, no matter what it is. Then if I just cant stand it (its only happened once with something called Costa Ricans nances I think) I say, that is so wonderful, but I am so full, or some other nice excuse.
As far as my favorite sandwich of all time, vidalia onions and mayo on white bread. My granny was so cheap she only sprung for bologna once in a while!
If bologna was in the house I preferred it fried with barbecue sauce.
My Dad use to take us for Sunday drives too, but we stopped for the little coke in a glass bottle and those little bags of peanuts, then you put some of the peanuts in the coke! What a treat!
I love fried bologna sandwiches and I still eat them! I also loved fried egg sandwiches and I remember that we were so poor that for lunch a lot of times I had mayo and mustard sandwiches.
My husband grew up eating fried bologna sandwiches, his family is from Louisiana. When we go to the grocery store together he always wants to get bologna so we can make fried bologna sandwiches and im like, YUCK! I didn’t grow up eatin’ bologna so it just sounds gross to me. But, I would definitely try one of your grandmas bologna sandwiches just so I could sit on the porch and listen to her talk about the old days, I bet she has some great stories to tell!
I grew up eating peanut butter and bacon sandwiches on toasted wheat bread, is that weird???
My Daddy was a fried bologna connoisseur! He did the most perfect fried bologna and they were always so tasty with fried eggs! I love them with scrambled eggs also but, the fried eggs he made were to die for.
And I can’t eat a bologna sandwich withough BBQ potato chips in it. No mayo, no mustard .. just bread, meat and BBQ chips .. smooshed down flat!
we were big on fried baloney too. Red rind baloney, thick cut, fried to near carbonization. Then put it on light bread with Miracle Whip. My brothers liked american cheese on theirs. My personal favorite weird sandwich is peanut butter and bacon, which grosses my health food nut daughter out! I like tomato and mayo too. When my bunch were younguns we’d get baloney and a loaf of light bread, a pickle jar of sweet tea, and hit the road…in our purple and white Gremlin…hahahaha…! I was a broke single mom and we knew every “free” place in North Texas. Now, this egg and olive thing sounds intriguing. Could someone enlighten this old Texas gal? Best wishes from soggy Dallas….
Banana and peanut butter sandwiches were what my childhood was made of!!!
CHRISTY,
I CAN REMEMBER ON SUNDAYS AFTER CHURCH WE WOULD GO RIDING IN THE HILLS IN MISSISIPPI WITH MAW MAW, PAW PAW, MY MAMA AND DADDY AND WE WOULD ALWAYS TAKE A COOLER (THE STYROFOAM ONE) WITH OUR MAYO (BLUE PLATE) OF COURSE WITH BOLOGNA, PIMENTO CHEESE (HOME MADE) ONLY AND HOME MADE TEA CAKES. DURING THE SUMMER WE RIDE IN THE BACK OF THE PICK-UP TRUCK AND PICK HUCKLEBERRIES. THOSE WERE SUCH GOOD TIMES.
Fried spam sandwichs were one of my favorites. Sometimes I would put potato chips in with it. It had to be ruffles though.
And fried bologna!! YUM
My daughter can live on bologna if I let her!!
For years I took a bologna sandwich to school in my lunch box every single day and even now, the smell of a lunch box that’s had a bologna sandwich and an apple in it makes me feel just like a kid again. We sometimes had fried bologna with eggs and toast for breakfast on the weekend, too. My sister and I didn’t realize it at the time, but we couldn’t afford “fancier” breakfast meats like sausage or bacon. We just thought it was darn good food!
Of course, my favorite sandwich of all time is still peanut butter, Miracle Whip and lettuce. It doesn’t get any better than that!
Well people, I like me some:
Pnut butter and mayo sammiches
Pnut butter and cheese sammiches
Viennie sausage sammiches with mayo
Pineapple ring and mayo sammiches
Potted meat and mayo sammiches
mayo sammiches
BBQ Tater Chip sammiches with mayo
Treet sammiches with mustard (Spam was too expensive)
Penrose sausage sammiches with a big Pepsi
That’s about all I can think of right now. Sure there’s more I’m a forgettin’.
Oh yes, potted meat. That was what we served the threashing crew for afternoon coffe, along with cake. I still, occasionally, buy a small can of that and mix it with either mayo or Miracle Whip. A few years ago my much younger sisters(8 and 10 years younger) and I were talking and I mentioned “threasher” sandwiches and they gave me this really strange look. I then explained about the potted meat that we only had them when the threashers were there. They didn’t know about potted meat either—-the poor girls. They were probably in their early forties at the time we were discussing this. Of course they are enough younger than me that by the time they got old enough to remember, we had our own combine.
Oh! Potted meat I still make those sandwiches. I spent 30 years making them for the cricket team teas as well – with other sandwiches as well and a choice of 4 homemade cakes and sausage rolls.
My friday nights were spent baking for the men and my sunday afternoons baking for the family. lol.
We had a little country store down the road and we would walk to eat and get some bologna and cheese sliced also. They would wrap it in the white butcher paper. I still love bologna sandwhiches! I’m also from North Alabama (Moulton). I live in Mississippi now and I fry bologna for the men at the deer camp and they love it.
I love fried bologna sandwiches on soft white bread, plain! I cut small slits all the way around the edge so it doesn’t pop up! My mom served it that way since I was a kid and my hubby and kids love it that way as well. Just Sunday, we fried some bologna to throw into some omeletes we made! Now if the bologna isn’t fried, I like it on soft white bread with miracle whip, sliced tomatoes and potato chips! I also love cheese sandwiches with miracle whip and sliced tomatoes on white toast! Yummy! My kids love peanut butter and banana soft tortilla sandwiches wrapped up!
My wife thinks I am crazy when I tell her my favorite meal is a bologna sandwich and glass of milk. My mouth is watering right now, just thinking of thick Zeigler’s bologna on fresh bread with mustard. Anyone want to trade some lobster mac and cheese that I brought for lunch for a bologna sandwich? I know you would be getting the bad end of the deal, but worth asking anyway.
One year (not that long ago actually) my daddy went with us to the state fair and he took his own huge thing of “slice your own bologna”! Every time he got hungry he’d go out to the car to make him a bologna and tomato and mayo sandwich out of the cooler…. You can really get thick sliced like that!
Only my daddy…
My mom used to fry bologna and we’d have it for a meal with mashed potatoes :0) She also made “nanner sammiches” – sliced banana with mayo or “mater sammiches” garden fresh tomatoes sliced thick on white bread with mayo. The other thing she made that everyone else thought was weird was BLT with fried egg… she also put a packet of peanuts in every Coke she drank :0)
I agree it was because of lack of food but look how creative we are!
My mother drank Dr Pepper with peanuts. I thought is was cool but I didn’t like the peanuts so I put redhots in my Mt Dew! Also I love my fried bologna with mustard. YUM!
We were poor and couldn’t afford ham but my Mom used to grind up bologna and add miracle whip and relish. YUMMO!!! To this day it’s still one of my favorites. I can buy ham now but I prefer the bologna.Some days we just had a butter and sugar sandwich and we loved it! (we never really knew we were poor)
I used to do this, too, but I no longer have my old fashioned food grinder, and people tell me that the smaller food processors won’t do the job, so I haven’t ever bought a food processor.
You know we love our BBQ sandwiches with sweet vinegar slaw, but I would make my second bun with just slaw and lots of juice to soak into the bun. This would be my dessert.
P.S. Another favorite still is tomato sandwiched. Wonderful tasting homegrown tomatoes.
Oh my I remember those balogna sandwitches so fondly, but my favorite memory of one of my favorite sandwitches is the weiner sandwitch. Not a hot dog, mind you, but a weiner sandwitch. You took 2 pieces of bread, a big ole slap of mayonaise and enough weiners cut in half (long-ways) to cover the bread. Of course you fried the long-ways sliced weiners in a pan first. You covered the weiners and bread with cheese and another slice of bread. That was heaven! It really brings back fond memories of my childhood.
Oh, gracious!This is fun thinking back of family memories.Young people today really miss something if they choose not to socialize with their elders. We loved fried bologna sandwiches (some of our local restaurants have started making them too). Grew up on tomato/miracle whip sandwiches, along with peanut butter buns (real oohey and goohey!And this was served at school if you didn’t like the plate lunches.) I’ve got one you probably can’t imagine, “Mashed potato sandwich, cold at that”! On a Sunday after dinner, I’ll get a hankerin’ for one after finishing the dishes. Have a sign on my porch, “Welcome to The Porch”. Just perfect sittin’ with a friend or lover sipping ice tea or lemonade.Time flys! But memories last forever.
Keep doing what you’re doing Christy, it’s a good thing!
Sandy in Kentucky (I’m a quilter too, and like Jeanne Robertson)
I, too, love mashed potato sandwiches, have you tried mashed potatoes in a biscuit? In the summer I make a big pan of flat biscuits and we have tomato biscuits, with or without mayonnaise.
My sons friends liked them too.
Janet F in NC
Oh Christy, I LOVE fried bologna sandwiches..growing up my favorite summer sandwich was pineapple and cheese with mayo on white bread!
We always had fried bologna (the cheapest was all we could afford) and I ate mine with ketchup on white bread. My mom and everyone else I know would add lettuce and tomato, but I don’t think we ever had fried bologna with cheese. Only the cold stuff with cheese.
So many memories here! I agree with Christy that traditions were often a lack of food. We always had a bedtime snack no matter how lean the budget but I can tell you that some of those sandwiches were creative to say the least. I have had many ketchup sandwiches as well as cold soup beans which thicken into a paste, cucumber slices, and even salt and pepper merely sprinkled onto buttered bread. I laugh to myself when I see little tea sandwiches of cucumber because now they are fashionable and we ate them because that is what we had. I still love PB&J sandwiches, PB and sliced dill pickle are good too although they don’t sound so appealing. Nothing finer than a “tomater” sandwich with mayo and I prefer Hellman’s although it has gotten pricey and I often settle for something cheaper.I like fried baloney-think it tastes like a hotdog. Pimento cheese spread is still a winner. When money is tight I still make egg salad and love it. I never really feel deprived because these are my comfort foods and I would choose them above caviar or something exotic yet today. Grilled cheese and canned tomato soup is a terrific supper on a cold winter’s night.
Another favorite is the BLT. Home grown tomatoes, fresh thick bacon from the hog my grandfather slaughtered and smoked in his smoke house, crisp lettuce between 2 slices of toasted white bread with a big ole slap of Blue Plate Mayonaise. Top it all off with salt and pepper! A meal fit for a king!!!
My father would fix us ketchup sandwiches. Love them! Every once in a while I have to make one for old times sake. I love fried spam sandwiches too. My husband is from South Carolina (we live in Utah) and the two things he asked me to make when we married were pimento cheese spread and banana pudding. He says I make banana pudding exactly like his mother did (well, it’s her recipe). Bologna has always been a favorite–never fried it but certainly will now.
Wow!!! Hearing all this really transports you back to childhood, doesn’t it? When I was growing up, my mama used to fix fried bologna all the time for supper because we couldn’t afford much else
. She would always fix fried potatoes and pork and beans with it. To this day, that is still one of my favorite meals! One of my favorite sandwiches to eat was always fried peanut butter and banana- sooo good!!! and I would also eat mustard and pickle sandwiches on light bread, yuuummm!!
White bread,mayo,potato chips and fried bologna..I think I died and went to heaven. Those were the days….
Mama used to make scrambled egg and potted meat sandwiches. Scramble eggs in the usual way, except dump in a can of potted meat. I always ate them with mustard – and if we had any – sliced green bell peppers. Yum-yum!
Oh, another thing I meant to post..gettin’ old yall! I’ve had this in Texas and western TN…barbecue places will take a whole thing of baloney, is it 5 or 10 pounds I guess? Anyway, they smoke it along with their briskets or whatever, overnight. Talk about good! there is a bbq place down the street from my office here in Dallas that has bbq baloney sandwiches on their menu. Gettin’ faint just thinking about it. may have to sneak out here in a minute….
I like leftover fried taters and onions folded in some light bread too. that’s one of them “standing over the sink” snacks.
My Daddy used to slice potatoes kind of thin like potato chips and fry them for us. I always made potato sandwiches out of them. Fresh white bread, mayonnaise and fried potatoes. YUMMY!!!
That brings back memories! I grew up on boloney sandwiches. (Couldn’t figure out why it was spelled bologna for years!) My mother used to cut four little slits around the edge so when it fried, it shrank up and looked like an artistic cross when it shrank up during cooking!
Have you seen the movie Cinderella Man? It’s set during the Great Depression and the family in it each got one slice of bologna for dinner, if they were lucky. There’s a scene where he makes money from a fight after a long time with very little work. They celebrate by throwing an extra slice of bologna in the pan. It was so funny!
Oh My. My Mom got out the grinder(the one that clamps onto the edge of the table) and then we grind a half pound of bologna, not cut into slices, just a hunk of bologna, a half jar of whole pickles, whatever was left over, chunks of cheese, and then a couple of onions. Mix it together with mayo, whatever we had, and THAT is what was taken to grandmas house on Christmas Eve. Still do to this day. Use homemade buns for bread. OOOOOOOOOH Fancy!!!!!!
Childhood Sandwiches………..The best ones my Mama made and I still enjoy today! We called it “Special Pimento Cheese” Melted Velveta, diced pimento, sliced, black (ripe) olives, bacon, fried crisp and crumbled and diced dill pickles. I sometimes now use half Velveta and half shredded cojack cheese. She would spread it on soft, white Merita Brand ‘loaf bread’. I always think of her when I make them. Miss her so..
Mama Jane’s fried tater sammich reminded me of another;
mashed tater sammich… Put it on real thick on 1 piece of Kern’s Bread, fold it over and eat it like a hot dog, sorta.
Fried balogna with spicy mustard!! Pimento cheese on soft white bread!
Peanut butter and potato chips!! Vidalia onion, slice tomato, and thin slice cuke with Hellman’s mayo!
Mom would make “pocket books”…soft white bread spread with P.B. or pimento cheese. She then just folded the bread in half hence the “pocket book”. I have carried on the “pocket book” tradition!
Fun memories!!
Bountiful Blessings!
I love fried bologna with lettuce and cheese with salt, pepper, and mustard. YUM! Toasted or untoasted bread, doesn’t matter. I loved those things growing up! I always cut mine with three slits on the side (small) and then one in the middle to allow the steam to escape from the bubble in the middle! *sigh* Now I’m going to have to go get a pack of bologna!
I don’t care for bologna but my husband and 2 children do, they only like it fried, something that my Mama taught them to like, so I fry up some for them occasionally, but for me I crave grilled cheese sandwiches that my Granny used to make for me. She’s been gone almost three years and I miss her so much, but today you brought back to me the simplicity of a sammy, and the love of a Granny for her grandbabies.
My Granny would smash vienna or (vi-ee-ners), add a bit of the juices and spread on white bread with a touch of yellow mustard. I still crave that from time to time and that was 50 years ago! I grew up on Wilson’s bologna, but it had to be from the butcher not in a package. Packaged was wet, at the butcher it was freshly sliced, wrapped in white butcher paper. Mayo, lettuce, tomato, a sweet onion, and red rind bologna on wonder bread. But, my all time favorite was just Wonder bread and Wilson’s bologna, smash the sandwich as flat as possible. Eat off the crust and enjoy the rest with a tall glass of milk. My kids (35 and 39) have always laughed at me, but they are now eating it that way! I also used to make a leftover mashed potatoes on a dinner roll sandwich. Vacations, always sliced spam on white bread with mustard and onion. Christy, I know that smell of the lunch box memory.
First thing I thought of when I saw your picture was pac man as well. I’ll have to make one for my son and call it a pac man sandwich. Thanks for the memories today!
OK, how about a grilled cheese sammich with brown sugar sprinkled inside before you grill it?
My Momma used to make these for me, and today before I will eat a grilled cheese, it has to have brown sugar on it.
I LOVE fried bologna sandwiches. I eat them with mayo,fried bologna and a slice of cheese. I have never tried it with potato chips but that sounds yummy too!! Growing up my mom would fry bologna for breakfast alot, I didn’t realize it was because we couldn’t afford much else. I still love fried bologna with fried or scrambled eggs and buttered grits.
My best friends and I would eat alot of pb sandwiches with pancake syrup. I don’t know of anyone else that eats them that way. I really like pineapple and mayo sandwiches, they are delicious. Reading all of this takes me back to my childhood.
Heather, my brother and his best friend use to eat the peanut butter and syrup sandwhiches. I tried it once, but it was waaaaaaay too sweet for me! They ate ‘em all the time though!!!
My Momma used to fix Peanut Butter sandwiches with syrup for us. I had totally forgotten about that. They were so, so good.
I may be making me one of those tonight.
We eat peanut butter and honey at my house. Not too different, I guess. Like my mama before me, I’m too cheap to buy pancake syrup, so I only make it on pancake day. But, we always have honey in the house.
I have never tried PB sandwiches with pancake syrup. However, I do put my homemade pear preserves on my PB sandwiches, and I love it-way better than grape jelly. So, I can see how syrup would make a great combination on PB sandwiches.
I remember eating mayonnaise sandwiches growing up when we’d run out of other stuff.
We also ate a lot of potted meat on white bread and spam with mayo. We always had Kraft mayo as far as I remember…but when I’m in GA, I have to have Blue Plate – it is the best by far!
My Daddy and my Uncle Lawton (both from NC) loved fried bologna. I prefered mine right out of the package with mayo on white bread. I lived on those sandwiches when I was pregnant.
Mama always ate banana and mayonnaise sandwiches.
One of my favorites to this day is tuna mixed with mayo and potato chips piled on between white bread. Cruncy and delicious!
Oh lord- I had o respond to this one….
*My best friend of 43 years,Rhonda, eats “white bread slathered with Peanut-butter and liberally sprinkled with white sugar” sammiches.
All these years, I still haven’t got the guts to try them….it just sounds WRONG!!!
*My Brother used to come in from work in the mill, get a half loaf of white bread out, mix up some ketchup and Mayo with sweet pickled relish in a bowl and make sammiches out of that. UGH!
*My very favorite sammich is my grandmothers Cucumber & Carrot sammiches where the cucumbers and carrots are FINELY grated, then the excess liquid squeezed out then, either mayo or cream cheese and some spice or another are added and then spread on white braed with the crusts cut off. They were always a HIT at all the family bridal and baby showers. Unfortunately, my grandmother has 10 15 years passed and the RECIPE for it has been misplaced during one of my moves so I haven’t had one in AGES!
That should have read 10 to 15 years passed……I miss her so much.
The PB and Sugar sounds great, and the ketchup, mayo, and relish sounds just yummy.
Your Cuke and Carrot sammich sounds terrible though…..
Oh no- but it wasn’t exactly a hardy meal tho! It was more of a light snack sammich!! It was a tiny bit bland, but that’s what made it so good…it wasn’t overly spicy or loaded with overwhelming flavors that would upset your tummy.
Course, being a guy, you probably would choose a hardy sammich over a light snack sammich!! That’s oaky, tho….different strokes for different folks!!!
We would usually just eat our bologna sandwiches with cold bologna, and tomatoes, lettuce, pickles, etc. But it does look really good with the bologna fried up like that!
When I was younger, we would put slices of cheese on our peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I haven’t done that in years, but we used to love it.
Egg sandwiches were also something we would do – fried eggs with a nice gooey yolk, sandwiched between two pieces of buttered toast. You’d bite in and the yolk would drip down your chin and get all over the place – sandwich heaven!
My childhood sandwhich that I’ve always loved is a BLT, (bacon lettus and tomato) It’s not a strange sandwhich, but I always got excited at dinner time when my folks decided to make these. I was an easy child to please! ^_^ I don’t like bologna, but I kinda do this same sandwhich with SPAM. I love my SPAM to where it’s just about black, and crispy on the edges! YUM….thanks for the post and keep up the good work!
God Bless!
Your friend from Louisiana,
Vickie
Growing up I loved (and still do)my Mom’s ham sandwiches. I loved them with lettuce, tomato, salt and pepper. Nothing fancy. But the sandwich just reminds me of home.
Today, as a Mom of 3, the best sandwiches in the whole world are the ones I don’t have to make. I love days when I travel for work and get to eat in the cafeteria and have someone else make me a sandwich!
Tracie
Fried bologna with A-1 sauce. MMMmmm. (I used to eat it that way when I was a kid, too.) Though now it’s just fine with mustard, no cheese, and yes, potato chips.
Condiment sandwiches are good. LOL! Mustard, ketchup, even relish sandwiches, sometimes mixed with any of the above. And yes, I’ve been known to have a potato chip sandwich with Miracle Whip. (Especially good with kettle cooked potato chips, or even ridged ones.)
I’m grown up and now I can eat what I want!
Diane in PA
Man, I miss Zeigler’s. Can’t find it here in South Carolina. Can’t get Grapico or Golden Flake chips, either.
The sandwiches I grew up eating were potted meat with MaMa Dos’ homemade sweet pickle slices and mayo (it wasn’t Duke’s back then… I didn’t discover the wonder that is Duke’s until I moved to South Carolina). That’s my favorite, but it’s just not the same without her pickles. Other “odd” sandwiches my mom made me included pineapple, mayo and Kraft cheese slices, a pb & mashed banana sandwich, pb & raisin and banana & mayo. We always had a tub of Ruth’s pimiento cheese around, too, but my favorite pimiento cheese was my mom’s homemade (Velveeta & a jar of pimientos).
My husband is the eye doctor at our local Super WalMart. I just sent him a message to pick up some bologna and a tub of Ruth’s CREAMY pimiento spread, ’cause now I have a hankerin’.
Almost forgot… mom’s leftover meatloaf and ketchup made a great sandwich, and when I was REALLY desperate, Wonder bread with either ketchup or Arby’s sauce made a great snack (my mom always saved the packets!)
It must be a regional thing. Growing up in Hawaii, we ate Fried Spam with Rice! Yummo!
That an anything teriyaki! Have you tried teriyaki pickled green mango?? Another Great one.
I do have Southern roots though and I remember my Grandpa in North Carolina giving us bacon sandwiches with what I recall to be almost a whole stick of butter!!! Hot bacon,butter running down your arm. Great big country kitchen table, with food out for the farm hands first thing in the morning, and it lasted all through lunch. Cobbler for breakfast was always a treat!
And then there is the ultimate Peanut Butter and Farm Fresh Tomato sandwiches.
I have several favorites. I like Miracle Whip on mine & I like my chips on the side.
1 – BLT on white toast
2 – Grilled cheese made with sliced tomoato – then slowly pan fry till cheese melts & it’s golden brown
3 – Tuna Salad with lettuce on white toast
4 – Egg Salad with lettuce on white toast
5 – Fried bologna with cheese on white bread. Sometimes I make a fried egg & bologna
6 – Ground bologna with pickles, lettuce & Miracle Whip on white bread
7- Fried, split longwise, hot dog on white bread with mustard
8 – Bacon & egg with ketchup on white bread
NOTHING I love better in the summer is a fresh bologna sandwhich with cheese and miricle whip and sliced fresh tomatoes!!!! So yummmmmy. I also grew up eating grilled bologna and cheese sandwhiches as well as fried bologna with a fried egg on top and cheese with miricle whip….
My sister and I ate a lot of mayo, mustard & ketchup sandwiches growing up along with sugar & butter sandwiches.
Talking about potato chips on sandwiches, my ex husband loved potato chips & pork n beans on Merita bread and one of my favorites now is peanut butter & bacon……Yum, yum…
I had butter and sugar sandwiches too! My mom’s granny used to make them for her! No one can believe me when I tell them they are goooood! Not a sandwich but my favorite dessert was chocolate fudge poured over saltine crackers!
I have to keep lots of bologna in the house for hubby also…He makes bologna salad all the time…eat it on toast or crackers.
Also grew up eating fresh tomatoe with miricl whip sandwhices. My Momma also fixed us peanut butter on white bread with Miricle Whip and sliced bananna’s…sometimes she fried them…Soooooo good.
OK…here I am again….we also grew up eating bologna gravy on toast…sooooo good…and I still fix it often
I grew up in Philadelphia, still live here, but I like to think I’m kinda Southern since I’m from South Philly.
I never had fried bologna, but has anyone ever tried fried salami? Has to be hard salami and very thin–Hillshire Farms is doing that now, comes out in one of those containers, pre-sliced. You just put it in a cast iron pan or skillet and let it sizzle until it shrinks up and gets nice and brown. You need some iceberg lettuce with it cause it’s kind of dry and it’s best on a seeded roll, poppy or sesame. Great sandwich!
My best friend’s Mama would make spaghetti every wednesday, when we where growing up. Kim would ride the bus home with me(I rode the fun bus with the cute boys) and then my stepdaddy would drive us to her house for supper. The next day we would go back to her house for cold spaghetti sandwiches. They were the best. Just take the cold spaghetti and sauce mixed together and slap it between some Merita Old-Fashioned white bread. We’ve been friends for over thirty years and every time I eat a cold spaghetti sandwich I think of her.
In the summer, it was fresh tomato sandwiches. JFG mayo, thick slices of tomatoes, and salt and pepper between two slices of fresh bread…better than steak! Yum!
Fried bologna sandwiches have always been a favorite in our family also. Now, I like to add sauteed green peppers and onions to my bologna sandwiches.
christy, I know you said you haven,t tried a pineapple sandwich but pineapple with slice cheese is so good. I also love grilled cheese sandwichs and tomato soup.
Alabama’s Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant – brings back some real old memories…. my neighbors growing up in SC were die-hard Alabama fans…. great neighbors mind you.
Bologna sandwiches bring back even more current memories…. I hate memories… they make me soooo old…. this week at my local grocer in SC they have bologna steak on sale… 1/2″ thick slabs… mmmmm. Working in EMS is sorta like “cops and doughnuts”…. we HAD TO HAVE all the ‘not good for you’ foods available within our territory…. Thick slabs of bologna (doctor attributes it to me gaining 30 pounds in 1 month) were a must have….. along with fryed fish sandwiches (whole fish complete with eyeballs and fins on white bread)… and don’t forget porkchop sandwiches (complete with bone and all)… here, local sandwiches were more of a ‘fast food’ than anything else…. you’d have your meat and your bread to take back to your ‘cott’n picken, logg’n, EMS’n or what-ever’, lunch hour in the back woods at its finest.
I almost forgot! To me the best thing to eat along with a fried bologna sandwich is a moon pie!! My mama used to get us a can of coke and small pack of salted peanuts to pour in it for a snack when we traveled. I still love that. And we also ate alot of banana and mayo sandwiches growing up. Whenever my mom cooked spaghetti we would butter a slice of bread, slap spaghetti in the middle, fold it up and eat it, it is sooo good!! My husband laughs at me when I do that now.
It’s funny, my brother taught me to put potato chips on my sandwich also. I am from Kansas and we called bologna, round meat. We ate it with Miracle Whip (yuk!) and white bread. I think my mother was too poor to afford sliced cheese. Also, it had to be Oscar Meyer and still is. Got to love their hot dogs. Just wished they weren’t so salty.
You can get a thick fried bologna sandwich at Dollywood. They also have BLT sandwiches that are the bomb.
I love homemade pimento cheese and peanut butter on rye.
peanut butter and jelly on fresh white bread oh, yum.
I haven’t had fried bologna in years. We ate it plain though, on white bread, of course. Yum!
oh christy the sandwhich looks soo yummy as a child i always had fried bologona and cheese sandwhich with a slice of tomato ohhh my goodness soo good ,thanks for sharing such wonderful memories with everyone ,i feel as though im a part of your family
Priscilla
There were 6 of us growing up. On occasion, my dad would visit a deli and they would slice the cold cuts which were all wrapped in white butcher paper.
We had to have bologna, ham, liverwurst, roast beef (for my mom, turkey, Swiss (again for my mom), yellow American cheese slices, fresh white (wonder) bread, Hellmans mayo, onion slices, fresh tomato slices, and frenchs yellow mustard. Once in a while, we would get fresh french or Italian bread.
Each person got to make their own sandwich out of whatever they wanted-in any combination. Potato chips were on the side. We all ate at least 2 sandwiches each (my brothers ate 3 a piece). The kids would drink water, mom diet coke, dad water.
So, I guess any kind of sandwich is what I grew up with. Plain, fancy, lots of filling, little filling. Fried bologna with fried onions, the combinations were endless.
thanks for the trip down memory lane
Anyone ever tried bologna & sweet peppers??? Really good.
Take thick sliced bologna, a whole sweet pepper, cut in half, seeded, share other piece with partner, mash it down to fit on the oat bread, sooo good! Don’t need nothing else.
Brace yourselves: I never even heard of frying bologna until I was an old married woman with three kids! But I’m not from the South — that’s my excuse & I’m sticking to it!
My favorite sandwich — the one my mom made every single day until I graduated from high school — was peanut butter & american cheese on Jewish rye bread, sliced in thirds. Don’t ask me why Mom sliced it in thirds — maybe she was just being fancy! Oh, and every single sandwich she made started with bread and margarine. Always. I still do that on meat sandwiches or anything with tomatoes — the fat acts as a barrier to keep things from making the bread soggy — but I use butter now.
Fried bologna! So many memories… when my father was laid off from his job, my parents struggled to put food on the table every night. I remember my mom making fried bologna, refried beans, and flour tortillas for dinner pretty regularly. Sometimes it was fried wieners. She fried the bologna in butter, yum! Sometimes we had it for breakfast on buttered toast. I still eat that today, and my kids love it just as much as I did growing up! Thanks for the memories, Christy!
When I was young we would buy small bottles of coke (co-cola) and travel with the town it was from. The coke bottles had the town on the bottom of the bottle. and whoever had the fartherest away bottle was the winner.
One of my childhood memories is fried tater sandwich. Warm fried taters on white bread with ketchup. YUM!!
I remember when I went away to college, my roomate thought I was crazy because I cooked fried potatoes just so I could make a tater sandwich. It was a great cure for homesickness.
Renea in Arkansas
You have not lived until you have eaten fried bologna with cheese melted on top, then placed on Wonder bread with mayo, sliced tomatoes and salt and pepper. I may just have to have one real soon. I had a childhood friend who introduced me to sliced black olives mixed with mayo on white bread with B-B-Q “smished” between the olive/mayo mixture and the bread. Give it a try, you will be surprised. Have a blessed day. KathiB.
Oooh, Christy,
Did you ever stir up just the best memories?!! Yes, Yes! Sweetest memory….When I would visit my Aunt Hattie up in Nashville she would send me and my cousin to the little store on the corner for belogna and cheese. That made the best sandwich! See we were so poor that belogna was a rare treat for me. I was named for my Aunt Hattie and she always treated me extra special. (Or so I thought) She was the sweetest person and I’m sure she treated everyone special. Your talking about belogna sandiches today just stirred up memories so that I must go to the store tomorrow and get me some.
Thanks,
Hattie
Guess I am just a damn yankee but…….
One thing I remember eating growing up was an onion sandwich. Just a nice red Spanish onion and some nice Hellmann’s mayo on it. My son’s school didn’t have a school lunch so we had to pack it every day. His favorite sandwich was peanut butter, baloney and mayonnaise. I cringed every time I made it until one day he forgot it and well…not wanting it to go to waste I took a bite…mmmmm not bad at all.
As a child I used to spend the night on a friends farm and in the morning we would have fried baloney, eggs and toast. When her father tragically died I wrote her a note and reminded her of all the fun times I had with her parents. She wrote back and said she had been telling her grandchildren about the fried baloney and was so heartened to get my letter adding to her memories. Food sure creates strong memories.
I grew up on fried balogna sandwiches and mustard because that was all we could afford! It’s a great tradition!
Daddy used to buy bologna in this huge tube. We’d cut off thick slices for our sandwiches. Fried bologna was a real treat. We usually just had it cold. Mama used to eat mashed potato and onion sandwiches, and pinto bean and onion sandwiches. She’d make me on, and we’d eat them for a late night snack. It’s a really nice memory, especially now that she has alzheimer’s disease and we’ve lost so much of her. I’ll have to make us one and see if she remembers.
We owned a small grocery store and ate a lot of ‘little’ bologna. Daddy used to say if one of those little ‘wienner’ dogs ever saw us he would bark like crazy!
Mom did several sammiches but mostly when dad was done and it was just us kids and her. She used to fry an egg and then put mayo and ketsup on it. I still eat fried egg sammiches that way. If I scramble it for the sammich, I don’t put the ketsup on.
We used to have grilled PB&J..oh man! I love those!!
Several times a week I eat my toast and PB for lunch.
We rarely had bologna but I love it! I love to fry it and then use it in a grilled cheese. Oh yum! If I don’t have it grilled, then I have it with chips on it…any meat sammich is better with chips on it!
I also love Spam sliced real thin then fried and have that on the sammich with cheese.
My dad tells me when he was a poor college student at the University of Tennessee, he made pork and bean sandwiches…white bread, a can of pork and beans, and Kraft mayo (because his dad worked for Kraft). It really grosses me out but he swears up and down it was delicious!
I tried this one time, cause I’d seen it in a depression era cookbook. It was REALLY good! But I really like Pork n’ Beans.
I did not grow up in the South – unless you consider southeastern Kansas “the South”. However, I do remember a couple of sandwiches that my grandmother made of me. One was two slices of homemade bread spread with homemade creamery butter and liberally sprinkled with sugar. The other was sweet onion sandwiches – large fresh onion from the garden was cleaned and sliced and put between two slices of buttered bread. I recently recorded the memories of my mother’s melted cheese burgers – http://grannyramble.blogspot.com/.
My grandkids are not nearly as impressed with these because they are spoiled by fast-food burgers. We did not have the luxury of ever eating those when I was a child. I love walking down memory lane.
OMGoodness! Yours looks good! I’m thinking of a little snack before bed.
We grew up eating these in Washington State. Course my daddy was from Arkansas, and taught my momma how to cook. Blackeyed peas and cornbread (not sweet) was also a regular at our house. And then IF there was any leftover cornbread, crumbled up in a bowl with milk for breakfast. My daddy died when I was only nine. But my Iowa born momma, who moved to Washington State when she was three continued to make us southern food on a regular basis. I think to keep daddy with us, somehow. Oh, how I love it still.
I can honestly say that this is one of the best sandwiches. I also love to add a little MATER to mine. There is a restaurant in the town of Tuscalooa that actually sells Bologna sandwiches. Even though I think that it is crazy to pay for a bologna sndwich, I always order one when I am there…why because I LOVE IT and it is the cheapest thing on the menu.
Thank You for all that you do!
I’ve tried to read carefully and not miss anything, but I have not seen any sandwich made with a biscuit. My my mom made the bestest biscuits, with her hands. I remember slicing a biscuit open, putting on the mayo and a thick slice of onion. Mustard and onion was good also. I cannot make biscuits like my mom and Mr. Pillsbury can’t either–just not the same. Now, I like to spread Miracle Whip on bread slices, wheat of course, thick slices of tomato and crushed potato chips. Of course bologna, cheese and tomato on bread w/MW is a favorite of our whole family. Such good stuff. And of course–sweet tea!
LOVE YOUR SITE!!!!!!
AT MY AGE, WHEN I WENT TO SCHOOL, YOU GOT LOTS OF HOME COOKED LUNCHES.
NOW, I HAD DISCOVERED MY FAVORITE SANDWICH.
2 SLICES OF WHEAT BREAD
1 SLICE OF THICK CUT BOLONA
1 SLICE OF CHEESE
2 SLICES OF DILL SLICES LAID ON PAPER TOWEL (PUT ON SANDWICH)
1 HANDFULL POTATO CHIPS
FANTASTIC! ITS ADDICTIVE!
Hi All,
One of my fav sammies is a crisp apple peeled and sliced on white bread that has mayo on one slice and peanut butter on the other. Yummy! I also love pineapple the same way. I woke up two weeks ago this last Saturday to the aroma of frying bologna. My housemate’s sister and her friend had a craving for fried bologna sandwiches with eggs for breakfast. They didn’t make them like I like them though. I like mine made with 2 slices of bologna (cooked golden brown), sliced tomatoes, sliced vidalia onions, sliced mild cheddar cheese, mayo and mustard on either white or 9 grain bread. Yummy and so filling. I also love a sandwich made of sliced cucumbers, tomatoes, and vidalia onions with mayo on plain white bread. It is a wonderful lunch sandwich when it is hot out.
Hi My Husband is a Southerner and loves his Pimento cheese, Fried Bologna and braunschweiger sandwiches, I however am a California girl and my Favs are Miracle Whip & Strawberry Jam, Peanut Butter & Miracle Whip, Chicken (egg or Ham salad) & any meat with Regular Lays potato chips & Miracle Whip yummy. I enjoy your recipes and the way you illustrate them. Thank You.
P.S. since I have been here in Tennessee I have learned to LOVE fried dill pickles, but when I try to make them they are awful! Recipe Please………..
Hello!Boy oh boy this post brought a smile to my face.;p
I grew up on fried “baloney” sandwiches and just assumed everyone liked them so when I made one for my husband shortly after we were married he thought I’d gone and lost my mind! He politely tried it and gave the rest to me!lol!
I always ate mine on soft white bread with a squirt of catsup.YUM!
I have never seen the use of chips before but might have to give it a go!
Amy~
when I was just out of the service, and before I landed a job, I was very poor. I used to make jam sandwiches which consisted of two pieces of bread then you take and jam the two pieces of bread together hoping to trap some air between the two slices. Awhile later I was able to buy a small jar of mayonnaise whoo boy I was really living it up. I landed a small job and was able to purchase a bag of potato chips. My sandwich then consisted of 2 slices of bread mayo potato chips and air. Man I was really dancing in high cotton. Thankfully those days are long gone.
I like my bologna thick sliced. My mom used to go to the butcher shop and have the bologna sliced thick. The best sandwich is Thick sliced bologna, sliced cheese, kraft mayo, mustard, lettuce and tomato. I normally have chips on the side, unless I’m feeling a adventurous! Yum, this sounds great! Now, I’m hungry.
Christy,
When I was growing up I used to eat peanut butter and bologna and tomato sandwiches. I also like PB and banana sandwiched. We used to eat fried bologna and grilled cheese sandwiches with a bowl of tomato soup. I also like a good cold bologna, cheese, mayo, tomatoe and dill pickle sandwich. Wow, I’m getting hungry just thinking about it.
I also eat potato chip sandwiches and sweet gerkin pickles and mayo sandwich. Fried bologna and ketchup sandwich. When I was in Jr. High Mom would always make a snack for after school with vienna sausage and mayo with white bread. I didn’t like it with mayo so she put PB on mine. Everyone thought I was weird.
I love fried egg sandwiches with miracle whip, salt, pepper and fried bologna. Ummm! good! You fry the egg til white is done and yellow is runny and spread the yolk on one piece of bread and mayo on the other and put egg and bologna in middle. Now that’s an egg sandwich!
I think southern cooking is the all time comfort food. What about you?
that bologna sandwich looks like perfection to me! I love chips on my bologna… just never tried it fried… ima gonna get some bologna this week and try it!
What a FUN thread!! As several have mentioned, a lot of these “odd” sandwiches were invented out of financial need. I, for one, take a lot of comfort in that since my job has been severely cut back and money is tight. If I can look back with this much joy to times that were hard, surely there is joy to be found in spite of present difficulties.
I honestly thought I was the only one making peanut butter and tomato sandwiches – and I only started that a couple of months ago when hordes of tomatoes were chasing us out of our garden. If peanut butter goes well with other fruits (like bananas or jam) why not tomato? Surprisingly good. I hadn’t added mayonnaise to them but how could it hurt?
Peanut butter and white sugar is another old, old favorite. For that matter I’ve eaten a LOT of butter and white sugar on white bread sandwiches.
Mayonnaise sandwiches were a real go-to for lunches back when I was just a girl. And a sandwich with mayo, cheese, and a fried “stirred” egg was wonderful! (You just break the yolk and stir it around a little so that the egg is two-toned.) YUM!
Fried boloney was more of a dinner meat at our house. (Heavens! Just how poor were we??) Sandwiches were typically made with cold baloney – my favorite was with mayo and lettuce, hold the cheese. I’ve never tried potato chips on there but I do love ‘em on the side. The lettuce was important, though, for that crunchy texture.
My VERY FAVORITE sandwich (and I still make one whenever I can) is made with white bread: spread one slice with mayonnaise and pile on leftover mashed potatoes. Sprinkle liberally with black pepper and toast under the broiler in the oven or in a toaster oven. Spread the second slice of bread with mayo and top with a slice of American cheese. Toast this slice as well and when the bread is lightly browned, the potato warm and the cheese melty, put the sandwich together and enjoy! GREAT with a cold glass of milk!
Some people are amused (or alarmed) by my “mashed tater sammiches”. I never thought they were that strange but then an aunt of mine was always partial to green bean sandwiches! Stuffing sandwiches after Thanksgiving are heavenly – most any leftovers can be stacked on bread and enjoyed. To this day I make meatloaf primarily so I can have sandwiches for a few days.
And I guess I’ve passed on the weird sandwich gene – my son always loved a slice of baloney on his grilled hamburger!
Hi Lindakimy,
I was touched by your comments and wanted to offer my best support to you as I wish for your finances to get better. I and my family have been there where you are several times and am blessed that we are in better times. Often, Tuna Helper saved my mealtime for family of 4 because it only cost a total of $3.00. Kind and loving friends/family brought us groceries to help us through the rough times too. I am thrilled that you found encouragement in this SP post and that you will look for a positive outcome soon. Best of everything to you and yours. Good Luck!
My mother at the strangest things, but she grew up with limited resources as well, I think the strangest she ever ate was choclate cake with pinto beans!!
And that mashed potato sammy sounds good to me!
The thought that keeps coming to me as I read these posts, is how very privileged we were to be raised by resourceful, creative folks who knew how to make something out of nothing. I always say I raised my crew of six on prayer and pinto beans, but there was a whole mess of bologna in there too. Thanks to all for sharing these precious memories of wonderful childhoods, and even more wonderful mamas, and daddies, and grands, and aunties…blessings to you all.
Ditto. Double ditto, Mama Jane. You said it well.
I am now starving for a fried bologna sandwich after reading all the comments above. I, too, grew up on bologna sandwiches with either mustard or Miracle Whip. No Mayo for me. When I married (52 years ago), I thought my new husband was crazy when he made his bologna, dill pickles, peanut butter and mayo sandwich. He’s a mayo person, so we have to keep both in the frig.
Growing up, we were poor, but I was also finicky. If I didn’t like what Mama cooked, I ate a Miracle Whip sandwich. My dad always said if I got hungry enough, I’d eat whatever Mama cooked. He was so right.
Once on a mission trip to Appalachia, the leader of the VBS at a church there took a whole loaf of bologna and a whole loaf of American cheese (gov. commodity), chopped them up finely, mixed them up and added pickles and mayonnaise to make a sandwich spread. That’s the only time I ever ate bologna that way, but it was GREAT! It made enough sandwiches to feed the whole Bible School.
My father’s aunt from Brooklyn, NY made fried boloney sandwiches with mayo on rye bread. My father still loves stuffing sandwiches, made the day after Thanksgiving, and he also used to make baked bean sandwiches (baked beans on two pieces of buttered white bread). And salmon sandwiches, made with canned salmon and Durkee’s. My mother made cold boloney sandwiches with cream cheese and sweet pickle relish, which at the time I thought sounded terrible, and now that I’ve tried them, I think they’re pretty good. My grandfather grew his own tomatoes and made the best tomato sandwiches, ripe tomatoes on white bread with mayo (usually Hellman’s here in NJ), salt and pepper.
Mom often made fried baloney sandwiches for me and my 4 brothers & sisters. I’d say the “oddest” sandwich she’d make us was buttered bread with a heavy sprinkling of sugar. But they were considered to be more of a treat than a meal (thank God!). I was so surprised that other posters have also had sugar sandwiches…I really thought we were the only ones!! Sometimes, we’d ask Mom to make us plain mayonnaise sandwiches. Now that we’re grown up, two of my brothers and I like Miracle Whip. Mom, Dad, 2 sisters and 1 brother prefer Duke’s.
We had sugared butter biscuits and mustard sandwiches for after school treats…..life was good!
I use to love bologna sandwiches, but can’t eat them anymore. Got sick on one when I was preggers with my daughter, can’t hardly look at it anymore, but I still make them for my husband, I will every once in awhile, get thick cut from the deli and fry it up for him for breakfast, he loves it.
I put potato chips on all my sandwiches, I love Fritos on my Tuna Sandwiches.
I use to work with a lady who would put mustard on a piece of bread coat it with sugar and eat it, she said it was her dessert…wierd.
I’m from South Carolina and if it’s not Duke’s or made with Duke’s we don’t eat it. My kids are so spoiled we have to take a jar when travel Just in case.
Absolutely loved fried bologna sandwhiches with lots of mayo on white bread. My grandma would fry them up for us and I’d put so much mayo that it would squish out the sides. Now that kind of grosses me out, but back then I loved it. Our next door neighbor used to give me and my brother sugar sandwhiches as well. He liked his with butter but mine was just plain old white bread and sugar.
Well this post brought back a pile of memories… I have eaten most of the sandwiches here. However, my favorite childhood sandwich was the grilled peanut butter and jelly. You take a basic peanut butter and jelly sandwich, smear on some butter or “oleo” on the outside and pan fry just like a grilled cheese. The peanut butter and jelly go all smooshy and warm and its a great comfort food. Pair it with an ice cold glass of milk and it just cannot be beat.
My more recent and more adult sandwich fixation is a BAC… bacon apple and cheese. I take thick cut bacon, lay it on a cooking rack in a sheet pan, sprinkle it with brown sugar, kosher salt, and coarsely ground pepper, and bake it until it gets crisp. The sugar gives it a sweet and salty glaze effect.
Put mayo (it was always Hellmans for me growing up, or JFG) on two pieces of good dense bread (I like multi-grain). Add the bacon, thinly sliced Granny Smith apple, and slices of smoked gouda cheese. Its heaven on a plate!
Thanks again all for giving me a respite in the middle of my day! I needed it today.
Oops! I forgot two other favorites. Jeanene just reminded me of the grilled peanut butter & jelly, which I haven’t had in a very long time. Maybe I will tonight! The other is peanut butter with thinly sliced vidalia onion…don’t knock it till you’ve tried it! ha! ha!
We grew up eating fried bologna (cooked in a little bit of butter) and if I put american cheese on it to melt, I didn’t use mustard, but if not, then I LOVED mustard, bologna and bread (or even a hamburger bun, but usually reg. bread)…YUM-O!
We also loved fried hotdogs (same process).
Wow, where is the grocery store, I need a fix!
Peanut Butter & Bacon. Don’t knock it to you try it!
Liver Pudding is an all time favorite, too! It’s something I crave & can only get when I’m home in North Carolina because unfortunately, Neese’s doesn’t deliver to the states I’ve lived in while my husband’s been in the Air Force. Fortunately, Neese’s is set to begin online ordering with dry ice delivery very, very soon!
Fry up a THICK slice and put it on a hamburger bun with some mustard and onions and hot dog chili. Better’n snuff and not half as dusty.
hi julia!!!!! i wish i was in the land of cotton again too! terri in PA
When we were kids, we use to make fried bacon grease sandwiches. We would take a small amount of bacon grease and put in a hot skillet. We’d place the bread on the bacon grease and allow the bread to brown and then eat. Delicious.
Did you know Hardee’s now sales a Bologna, Egg, & Cheese Biscuit on it’s menu. Noticed it here on the sign as I drove by in Northwest Florida!
I have never been a bologna fan so my mom would buy chip-chop ham at the deli counter (the cheapest ham you could get). Pan fry the ham in a skillet with some pats of butter and then dump on top of white bread that has been smeared with mustard, mayo and some American cheese. Yum!
Kristy, please visit my blog and read some of my older blogs. One of them is about fried bologna sandwiches, and I think you will enjoy it. When I was a child fried bologna was always served with ketchup on a piece of toasted white bread (sunbeam). As an adult, I prefer it with mayo and mustard on untoasted 9 grain bread.
A family vacation this past summer brought us all together again. My brothers’ wife about had a heart attack when she walked into the condo and saw my brother and I frying up bologna as my kids were spreading mayo on bread. She couldn’t believe that people ACTUALLY ate that stuff! And she almost chewed my brother out for eating it until I stepped in and stopped her. What a ding-a-ling! How someone couldn’t find the beauty in fried bologna and family together! Anyway, thought that I would share that with you. There are people that have not been introduced to the wonders of southern food…..poor folks!
Love this blog by the way and my kids LOVED the chocolate cobbler!!! It was gone in one sitting!
Nicole
Lordie, this takes me back to eating at my grandma’s house – we didn’t fry it thought, just ate the bologna and cheese without any cooking – with an RC out of the machine in her carport. It was GOOOD!:):) I think she might have gotten her cheese as some sort of government program, but maybe I’m misremembering?
My momma used to always eat either butter & sugar on white bread or globs of real Mayo on white bread…Of course it was always a “fold over” sammich.
Lord, here I go again…Jeanene, seeing “oleo” reminds me of a new bride friend of my daughter’s. She took a recipe to the store, and was going down the list purchasing the required items. She came to one that stumped her so she found an older lady that looked like a grandma, and said, “excuse me ma’m, but can you tell me what oh-LAY-oh is and where to find it?” priceless.
Oh My Goodness! I am so glad to see so many positive comments on bologna sandwiches and so many variations. It makes me feel right at home. Can’t wait to see the pimento cheese recipes. Keep the good stuff coming. Southerners know how to eat the best stuff.
What memories! Thank you for posting about wonderful fried baloney sammiches! When I was little, my Nanny would make me a “special”-usually on Sunday morning, of fried baloney, WITHOUT slits so it curled into a bowl, She filled it with scrambled eggs (dripping in butter, of course) and put a slice of cheese on it! I was so certain I had to be the richest, most loved little girl in the world! And to top it off, I got to have a saucer full of big-person coffee-which was just about a spoonful of her chicory coffee in the bottom of a saucer, then filled to the brim with cream and sugar. What a big girl I was-I even tried to eat and drink like I saw the fancy ladies on TV do~~grin~~
Sunbeam bread with fried baloney and mayo-yum!
Fried egg with a slice of cheese, mayo, on sunbeam bread.
Pimento cheese and sunbeam…..
My dear husband grew up in the Pacific Northwest, and thought I was crazy eating all these sammiches, then he introduced me to HIS favorite-bacon grease drippin’ sammich. ~sigh~
Thanks for the memories!
Sybil
I noticed the liver sausage/braunschweiger sandwich, one of my favorite although the two meats are not the same. Liver loaf is the southern version of the Pennsylvania Dutch original. I also noticed no one mentioned head cheese / souse which I dearly love. Daddy made his own and i still do if I can get some pork or beef tongue. Souse, especially hot souse is the southern version of this German specialty also. No one else wanted the hog’s head on butcher day so we took it for the tongue, brains, and boiling the head for meat scraps for head cheese. Wonderful with white bread and MW, and if you have some hoop cheese (kind with the red paraffin around it.)
Eggs Benedict-inspired sandwich I made recently:
Soft mini French bread rolls, split, drizzled w/olive oil. Prepared a packet (1 c) of Hollandaise sauce, spread it on the cut & drizzled surfaces of the rolls. Placed thin-sliced ham on one side of roll, arranged roasted pepper strips and sliced provolone on the other. Popped ‘em under the broiler briefly, just to get the provi bubbly. Probably could have omitted the olive oil, and they might have been uber-good topped with poached egg…but for a really quick weeknight dinner, I was stoked with this creation. My twin 16 y/o boys said the special sammies were “amazing.”
As a little girl,I stayed with my Mamaw(Gram) a lot. My favorite sandwich she made me. She would cook a big pot of white beans, the next day, she took cold beans, spread on white bread with mustard and a slice of white onion. I can still taste it today. Those were the days!!!!
I love fried bologna sandwiches too but my favorite is a Fried Potato sandwich. My Nanny got me hooked on these when I was a child. I can live off of potato sandwiches.
You get potatoes – peel and slice them in round slices not too thin not to thick. Fry in grease until golden brown. Then layer the fried potatoes on 2 slices of bread with some mayo, salt & pepper. YUMMY!! = )