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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Y’all keep the conversation going and I’ll keep the tea glasses filled!
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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!
I’ve been reading all these old post. I happen to love white beans and chocolate cake.
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
I’ve been reading all these old post..I grew up in a cotton field, eating bologna and crackers sitting on a cotton sack. If we had left over biscuits, and bacon and a slice of tomato..oh yes and Miracle Whip…sooo good..takes me back…still own that cotton patch.
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.