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.
See someone else’s comment you wanna reply to? Go right ahead!
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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.
It’s exciting to see someone who grew up with the same things. I introduced my 8 year old to sugar sandwiches and he was blown away. My hubby thought I was nuts! LOL! I also remember cheese and mustard sandwiches . . . they were my favorite too! Little did we know that we couldn’t afford meats for our sandwiches . . . but we never knew we were poor.
I can’t believe someone else grew up eating fried balogna, mayonnaise, cheese & potato chips on “store bought” bread like we did in southeastern Oklahoma! My mama bakes delicious homemade bread, but we always had it and thought it was a real treat to get Wonder bread from the store. I also grew up eating mayonnaise & mustard sandwiches. My grandmother used to eat onion sandwiches. She would take an onion fresh from the garden, slice it and eat in on bread. Oh, those wonderful memories…..
after rationing ended butter and sugar sandwiches were a real treat, my favorite is still fried bologna and cucumber hugs sally
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!!!
Awwww, you were doing great until you got to the Miracle Whip part, lol…
My Dad grew up in a little down in West Tennessee, and they used to call this a “Speckwich” because the guy who made it had the last name of Speck…
White bread (soft, not toasted)
Kraft Real Mayonnaise
3 pieces of Bacon (optional)
Fried Egg w/ Slice of American cheese
Slice of Fried Balogna
White bread (soft, not toasted)
Aw man — I have a feeling we’re going to be eating this soon…..Mmmmmmm
Wait — I knew I was forgetting —
Slice of Raw Onion…Vidalia, preferably….
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.
Speaking of older store: one is L&S Supermarket in Ardmore, AL. The Smith Bros. started the store in the late 40′s or early 50′s, according to my recollection. They cater to the older folk, and thrill us ‘younguns’, as they make us feel right at home.
I love Mom and Pop stores…and may check it out..as I live fairly close to there..Do you still have the flea market near the interstate?
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.
I grew up on bananna and mayo sandwiches and could fix them myself before I could anything else! My husband told me about bananna, mayo, and pb sandwiches…I told him he was gross and that couldn’t possibly be worth eating!!!!…Years later I saw an Elvis documantary and they were his favorite sandwiches just FRIED! Needless to say I went to the grocery store and tried them. I absolutely LOVE them and you gotta put mayo on one side, pb on the other side, and then bananna in the middle!! YUM, YUM, YUM!!!
i always made the sandwiches by spreading one slice with peanut butter, slicing bananas all over the top, sprinkle sugar over it all put the other slice of bread on it and boy, is it ever gooood!
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!!
my grandson loves peanut butter, jelly on skillet toast. i toast his bread with butter on it in the skillet. it is so much better than toaster toast.
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.
home-made pimento cheese is really good using bugles to dip it out of the bowl with.
Bread n butter pickles on it! yumm
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.
That should be a crime…A Walmart that doesn’t carry Dukes???? To me that’s the best mayo on earth! And the Light Dukes is good too, bet you can’t tell!! I slipped some in the regular squeeze bottle and my husband had no clue for over a week he ate Light mayo and loved it. I need all the help I can get with cutting calories and stuff…I won’t waste money on foods that he likes and food that is the same just with “Light” on the wrapper for me. Compromise is always good…I just don’t let him know about it until the time is right! lol
never heard of it
not necessaly so. Im from California and fried bolgna on fresh white bread from the Jim Dandy Market was yummy or fresh wonder bread all rolled into a ball of yummy dough was our favorite snack hugs Sally
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!
i have a great pimento cheese recipe. i cannot even taste bought pimento cheese anymore-my kids don’t like bought either
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.
Tell your cardiologist that my grandmother lived to be 1006!!!
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
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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.
Cheap to the budget, rich to the soul!!!
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!
Oh, peanuts in the coke! I’d forgotten about that. I remember being a little girl, at my mom’s best friend’s beauty shop (it’s a beauty shop when you’re in South Carolina, not a hair salon); Miss June would give me 5o cents for sweeping up hair, and I would buy a (glass) bottle of coke out of the drink machine, and either a honey bun or a little pack of salted peanuts. If I got peanuts, they went into the bottle of coke. Practically everybody did that. My husband (he’s from Iowa, bless his heart) thought I was plum crazy when I tried to get him to try it. I haven’t done that in years and years. I have to show my kids!!!
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!
That was Grandpa’s breakfast! Fried Bologna and fried eggs. Grandma always got the big hunk of bologna with the red rind on it. It wasn’t pre-sliced. She’d slice up a couple of slices, fry it up, fry a couple of eggs–he wanted the white a little runny as well as the yolks. And toast or a left-over biscuit. This was the late 1950′s and early 1960′s. West Alabama, just south of Tuscaloosa.
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….
Mama Jane, I had never heard of or eaten an egg ‘n olive sandwich until I married my husband. His family owned and operated a turkey farm in Giles County, TN. In 1967, they had 20,000 white turkeys on a open range, with three houses for the layers. They dressed fresh turkeys for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners, and shipped to markets other times during the year. They collected turkey eggs; and my mother-in-law hard-boiled the eggs and chipped up green olives stuffed with red pimento, and mashed it together with salad dressing, then spread on sliced bread.
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.
Darlene, I remember picking huckleberries with my Mom, too (hummm, the goodness of a fresh huckleberry pie)…and blackberries–my mom and sis could gather ‘em into a 5-gal bucket!.
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.
the bologny they slice in the store is always better. i used to put a slice of bologny on a paper plate, lay a slice of cheese on top and ‘nuke’ i for about a minute. the bologny would make sort of a cut with cheese in it-my kids called it bologny cups and loved them.
it would make sort of a cup-excuse the typo