I don’t eat bologna all the time, but every once in a while I get a taste for a fried bologna sandwich with cheese.
Granny must feel the same way because sometimes she’ll add a pack to her grocery list that I pick up every week.
I also like bologna, uncooked, with mayonnaise on light bread. If I eat it that way I can take the cheese or leave it.
I know it’s not the healthiest thing to eat, but somehow when eaten in the great outdoors it tastes so very good.
When my oldest nephew was a little boy he liked it too. We all still tease about him asking for ba-bonie and kook-aid. I think it goes pretty good with kool-aid myself.
The girls hardly ever ate in the lunchroom when they were in school. I wanted them too, but after both of their kindergarten teachers told me they were worried that the girls never ate one bite of food I gave in and started packing it for them in first grade. When they were old enough they packed it themselves every morning.
Chatter went through a stage of eating a piece of bologna between two pieces of light bread. No condiments of any kind—just bologna and bread.
All of my favorite sandwiches require light bread. From peanut butter and jelly to scrambled eggs light bread is my choice.
Sometimes I like my bread toasted, like for egg sandwiches, other times I want it un-toasted.
For fried bologna and cheese I prefer the softness of the light bread to be right up against the smoky flavor of the fried bologna and the melted cheese.
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I grew up on the Island of Newfoundland & we had fried bologna, mashed potatoes & veggies for supper. The odd time mostly summer we may have a fried bologna sandwich with catsup for lunch, still my go-to for a treat. Nflders call it ‘Newfie Steak” & even have a cookbook – The Bologna Cookbook Paperback – Aug. 12 2014 by Kevin Phillips (Author)
Blongna has been around for a long long time. O it was so good when we did get a sandwich. I eat it now on crackers. Don’t know if you have tried that or not but it’s good. My grandson will just get a piece and eat it plan.
Sniff, sniff, sniff. My heart <3. I'm 56, my sister is 54. Our mom passed in November of 2019 and when we really get to missin' her we have to eat a bologna sandwich together. Now, we're all the way up in PA and ours has to be made with BUTTER. Yup; bologna, american cheese, butter, and iceberg on a hard roll. Can you believe it (this might start a whole new thread) Mom even put BUTTER on our peanut butter sandwiches.
Maybe to late to post this but have any of you ever split Wennys -wenniers I know misspelled long ways and fried them like bolony and made sandwiches out of them. I like both with mustard and ketchup on good soft loaf or light bread . I also like the cheap brands of both. Walmart sells the Bar S brand for $1 a pack. I don’t want beef or the high dollar name brands. Here in upstate SC the Carolina Pride brand out of Greenwood, SC is popular but their price has almost doubled since the first of the year.
I enjoyed my share of bologna sandwiches in my lifetime, never fried, on white bread, but with mustard, not mayo (aside from the rare occasions where a loaf of pumpernickel bread would come home from the grocery store, we only ever ate white bread). Where I grew up in Massachusetts there was a large Polish population so stores also sold something called veal loaf, which was similar to bologna, but milder and square not round. School lunches were always a rotation of peanut butter and jelly, bologna, tuna salad. I was a very picky eater as a child, not very adventurous.
I learned how to spell bologna from the Oscar Meyer commercial like Mary, but I still pronounce it baloney. 🙂 I also like wieners fried until they are almost black with scrambled eggs. Just before I read this post I told my husband that I’ve been craving them. I think that might be supper. 🙂
Looks like bologna is a hot topic.
Back in the late 60s I went to catholic grade school, no cafeteria, so everybody brown-bagged it. My sister & brothers’ lunches were a rotation of bologna or tuna or pb&j, or chipped-chop ham, all on white bread. Every sandwich except the p,b&j included mayo & we added potato chips & proceeded to smash the sandwich as hard as we could. Dessert would be Little Debbie’s or candy that the nuns sold from a closet in the back of the room. My favorite was Mallow cups.
Although we ate balanced meals at home, lunches obviously weren’t.
Only time I eat bologna now are summertime at my Dads with fresh tomato, mayo & white bread, like so many of your followers.
That took me back, I too went to Catholic school in the mid to late 60s, til junior high, no cafeteria, but the nun who cooked meals for the nuns also sold hot lunches to students and we always at lunch at our desks. Mostly soups like tomato rice, but they always offered a dessert that was a slice of white bread spread with homemade chocolate frosting, which was heavenly.
Still enjoy a “baloney” sandwich; fried on occasion and straight from the package. As a young’un, my family painted barns in the summertime; many were in out of the way places or communities. Our lunch on most days was stopping at a local general store and ordering “a dime slice of cheese – a dime slice of baloney”; getting a big “RC Cola” or maybe a “Wink” out of the cooler to wash it down. In most cases, crackers came free; if not, we ate it on light bread and no mayo. A cheap and filling meal to hold us till supper. Am still not above having fried baloney for breakfast with eggs these days; it was always a menu item in most local small town restaurants in my younger days. In my wife’s hometown, it was called “Adair Co Roundsteak” !
I still love Olive Loaf. Don’t know if you folks have that down your way. Essentially, it is bologna with sliced olives pressed into it. Its ugly. Looks like eyes peeking up at you & it certainly ain’t healthy. But it reminds me of being little, as my mom used to buy it (probably because it was cheap & we were poor). Now, even bologna is too expensive (because it’s gotta be the Wunderbar brand!) I went through a spell in 4th grade where I wanted a salami sandwich with mayo and iceberg lettuce, every. single. day. A preppy girl in my class got that sandwich every day & I guess I just got it in my mind that I wanted to eat one just like her. School lunches were good when I was little (homemade by the lunch ladies) and only cost 80 cents. But by the time my two were in elem. school they were mass produced, sodium, calorie laden things. Neither girl would eat them, because they are used to eating too good at home. Plus, it took so long to get through the line that they would miss recess time. For my younger daughter, that recess time outside was way more important (& beneficial) than the junk lunches they were being served. So they brown bagged it mostly. They could eat quicker, healthier & get time to run around in the sunshine with their friends. They only had one 15-20 min. recess a day! Neither girl will eat bologna or peanut butter & jelly! They’ll eat p.butter, begrudgingly. Me? I could eat a PB & J every day. Maybe I over did them on them when I was pregnant. I craved P.Butter all the time. Now, I’m getting hungry!
We used to buy a slice of “baloney”, a slice of cheese, which came with two of the large crackers. The afore mentioned and a soft drink made a pretty “filling” lunch. One, absolutely, could not eat the cheese and bologna sandwiched between the two crackers without having cracker bits strewn all over everything around you.
My favorite way to eat bologna was a sandwich made with lite bread, mayo, tomato slice and bologna.
I could write a book about boloney. I love boloney but I due to health issues I don’t eat meat at all except for a little bit (and I do mean a little bit) of chicken and pork.
My first memory of boloney was watching Daddy with a whole chub of the stuff. Yes, it’s called a chub, look it up. I didn’t call it a chub though. I called it a cord. A cord is a measurement of wood. Pulpwood and firewood are measured in cords. A cord is a stack of wood that’s 4′ by 4′ by 8′ . Daddy cut pulpwood as one way to earn money to feed his family. Pulpwood is cut from small trees. Daddy cut them in 5′ length, carried them on his shoulder and stacked them up into cord sized stacks. The way he carried that chub of boloney reminded me of the way he carried pulpwood and not knowing the proper terminology it became a cord.
I have many more memories of boloney that I might have to try to translate to a readable format, but right now I need to mow.
I used to love bologna and miracle whip sandwiches when I was little but now I can only stand bologna if it’s fried and we put mashed potatoes and cheese in the middle but that is few and far between nowadays… don’t think we’ve had that in like 5 years…
Your right about fried bologna it’s not an everyday thing for me but when you get a hankering for it nothing else will do. And good ole white or “lite” bread is the only way to go.
Bologna is in my fridge right now. I know it’s not the healthiest thing to eat but I grew up on it and I like it fried with some Dukes Mayo on it and sometimes with a squirt of mustard added to it on fresh loaf bread. This brings back so many good memories. We always call it “baloney.” Back when I was young, someone called it the proper name, I didn’t know what they were talking about, LOL. You can tell I’m a true southern girl. Have a blessed day everyone!
Come on folks….you know you got to get boloney, melt cheese, put on white bread then before you put on second slice of bread for sandwich you top it with salty potato chips! Mmmmm Mmmmm Good! LOL. Like West Virginia it is referred to as Indiana steak here. God bless!
Tipper, I do so agree. I do not eat bologna on a regular basis, but sometimes like you , I crave a bologna sandwich. But! I like mine on lightly toasted wheat bread with gobs of mayonnaise, a slice of tomato and a thin slice of onion. Of course it has to be a sweet onion , oh yes and iceberg lettuce. Before my sweet husband passed away in 2012, he would say “let’s make us a bologna sandwich and watch old movies. And a glass of sweet tea with lots of lemon please.”…. I miss him so much sometimes it’s a physical pain. But he was a Godly Man and loved the Lord with all of his heart. And I wouldn’t have him back in this evil world for anything.
I haven’t bought white bread in over a year. And I eat very little bread. I’m trying so hard to lose weight that I don’t indulge often. But at 75 years old it’s not easy! LOL so I’m on this thing called a military diet. You eat what they prescribe for 3 days, Monday Tuesday Wednesday. 1200 calories the first day, 1100 then on the next day, and then a thousand on the last day. So it has helped for one thing it’s caused my stomach to shrink so on Thursday Friday Saturday and Sunday I don’t want as much.. I love to eat and it comes from when I was a child every Gathering of our family and even just at home with Mom and Dad, food was such a big part of our life. And Mom would always cook a big meal even just for supper through the week. I think it came from her being raised where they had very little food. But oh she was such a wonderful cook. She cooked very much the same as you do. The old ways. Anyway, I enjoyed this post. I pray you have a wonderful day , thank you so much for all you do for your YouTube Community.
I like bologna on white bread with lettuce, home-grown tomatoes, and mayo.
I like thin sliced fried bologna.
My daughter cooks bologna in a muffin cup with an egg cracked inside the ‘cup’ of bologna. Makes an easy hand treat. When I was small we never had candy or sweets in the house and when we came home from school we would just grab a raw hot dog or chunk of cheese. I don’t know how but they sure tasted better back when I was little. Oscar Meyer Bologna was how i learned to spell B O L O G N A – advertisements sure have a way of sticking with your.
One of the best-known and beloved steakhouses in Oklahoma sells out of smoked Bologna daily. Forget the steaks, that chunked and sliced ‘Baloney’ is THE BEST. Ahh. Fried Baloney sandwiches on white bread with a touch of BBQ sauce and mustard was my favorite after-school treat. Oh, WOW. WHERE’S MY CAR KEYS!?
Growing up my family loved bologna (bolonie) sandwiches on light bread. We all liked ours really fried to almost a black color, then added cheese & mayonnaise on bread not toasted. I was the only one who ate mine with mustard on it-never been a big mayonnaise fan. Dad’s friend had an old grocery store way out in the country, & we got the best rag bologna & hoop cheese or rat cheese there. Mom would also cut up raw bologna in sour kraut & cook a pot of beans & cornbread. Great food, great memories!
I Love baloney, too. Fried ’till the edges are almost black on sweet bread with Duke’s mayo. Yummm! Thought your readers might enjoy the bologna song by the ‘Moron Brothers’. Link to YouTube below:
https://youtu.be/4SE7DQ4B0t4
I don’t concern myself with what other people call healthy or unhealthy. I eat what taste good and boloney tastes good.
My husband loved “Bologna Sandwiches.” He liked them fried or raw and he made two sandwiches every day and took them to work for many years before he retired. I used to eat them too and my Mother would talk about getting bologna at the country store and some hoop cheese in NE MS. She said the hoop cheese had a red looking wrapping around it and it was the best cheese ever. Mother would always say pick up some loaf bread at the store:)
That red stuff is wax. It keeps air away from it while it ages.
One more quick comment concerning school lunches. Back in my time the ladies in the cafeteria were older county ladies. A lot of the food and the way it was cooked was very similar to the food you ate at home. One of the grammar school cooks made yeast rolls from her own recipe, Qunicy’s restaurant would not have went out of business if they had served yeast rolls like hers. She would sometimes slip an extra one on the plates of older kids. And the lunch in high school was not bad. This was in a time period from 1960-1972. Back then children had two choices when they set down at the table to eat , they were eat the food on the table or go hungry. There was no special or separate meals for a picky kid, only if they had health problems. I promise to shut up and leave everyone alone-at least for a little while. My comment wasn’t very quick.
Now you’re talking, Randy! OUR lunch ladies were the best! They would hook ya up, if they knew you didn’t have much at home. Living in a small rural town, the lunch ladies knew everyone & what their station was in life. We ate pretty darn good in the cafeteria, but my parents could’nt splurge on cafeteria lunches often. We got to circle the favorite days on the lunch menu & then mom would try to come up with 80c. The food was homemade, even in the 80s. When my kids started school (same building hubby & I attended) the lunches were still being mostly homemade by the 2 ladies who worked there. 2 ladies cooked breakfast & lunch for 200 kids everyday. All the district lunch staff would take turns making the monthly menus. Our lady, Pearl (of course her name was Pearl!), said the other buildings ‘hated’ her choices because they had to be made from scratch. They had much bigger staff (6-7 ladies for 200-300 kids), but didn’t want to do the work. They wanted pre-made stuff. Eventually, the district outsourced the food & it was all frozen, pre-made, reheat options. The nutrition took a nose dive & kids threw a lot of it away. After the change, my kids refused to eat the lunch, which before had been a novelty for them! My mom packed okay lunches & we ate good at home. She got soft in her later parenting years & lots of ‘accommodations’ were made for the picky eater little sister. I can remember, as the oldest, no mercy for picky eating. I sat with a plate of cold broccoli in front of me for an hour+ after dinner was excused. My mom wrapped it & it came back out for breakfast. I was told that it would be better for me if I ate the things I disliked right away while they were hot. I got it down & learned the lesson. Still to this day, I save the thing I love the taste of the most & eat it last to ‘wash down’ the least favorite thing on my plate!
Patty, I think our lunch at grammar school costed a dollar a week or 5 days. An extra carton of milk was 3 cents. The high school lunches cost a little more. Both of my schools were country schools and just as you said most everyone knew each other.Somehow Daddy always managed to come up with the money for me to buy lunch, truth is the school lunches were a lot better than what I could have taken from home. I am very proud of my daddy, mother too, he only had a 8th grade education (dropped out to help his sharecropper daddy) and worked most of his life in a cotton mill on a job that paid just a little more than minimum wage. The weeks were always longer than his paychecks. I know he and mother did without just to provide me and my sister with the necessities, no money for our wants. But they had loads of love for us.
I grew up on bologna, cold, fried, with bread or with out, dressed or undressed. We also fix is like tuna salad, chop it up, add mayo, relish, hard boiled egg and white bread. It’s a family tradition, first sign of cooler fall weather, a dinner of bologna salad sandwiches and oyster stew.
We called bloney coal miner’s steak when I was growing up. I don’t care too much for lunchmeat or bloney as I get older. I bought a pack of bloney a few weeks ago and made one sandwich. The dog got the rest, one piece at a time. If I eat a bloney samdwich, the slice of onion I top it with has got to be thicker than the meat. White Castle had a sign out front saying fried bologna is back. Someone said it was on their breakfast menu and is served with scrambled eggs on a White Castle bun.
My favorite in the Summer with sliced tomatoes and mayo on the bologna…….and any time add a layer of potato chips and squish the bread down on the chips and bologna for a deeeelightful crunch!!! As a child I went through stages of just a Mustard or Miracle Whip sandwich…….no meat or cheese!!! 🙂 As with you just plain light bread preferred…….I wonder how many young’uns today know what you mean by “light” bread or “sweet” mild………♥♥♥
As a child my mom would buy the roll of bologna. She would cut half of it to slice for sandwiches or to fry it up to serve with eggs and biscuits. The other half she would ground it up in her meat grinder and make bologna salad. She ground bologna, cheese and dill pickles together, then added mayonnaise and some seasoning. It was the best salad spread we ever ate! We preferred it over ham salad that she made with leftover Easter ham. We would spread it on bread, crackers and sometimes just add it to a bed of lettuce and eat it with a fork.
Oh my, now I’m wanting me some good old bologna salad…lol…
Cheap light bread, Dukes mayo , 1/4 inch slice of balogna, barbecue potato chips crushed and sprinkled on sandwich.
I cannot think of bologna without remembering how it used to be before about 1965. Back then it was rather dry and more firm than nowadays. It had no non-fat dry milk filler and would not turn slimy in the refrigerator within three days.
I’m sorry to throw off so much on what we get nowadays. I don’t want to be responsible for putting anybody off the modern version. But it is one of the downsides of age to remember when some things were truly better but no longer exist. Real wood instead of Medium Density Fiberboard (MDF) is another example. I still hold out the hope that somewhere in the wide world somebody still makes the real old-fashioned balogna but I don’t expect to ever find it again.
I think I posted this before, but I still remember when “imitation” balogna appeared on the scene. At the time, it was easy to think it would not survive because the real was still around to compare to. Alas, the word “imitation” got dropped from the label but the product was still the same. Now all of it is imitation in comparison with the original.
Lest I seem a complete grump, I do still have some of the “all meat” beef balogna sometimes. But I don’t let it linger around.
Tipper, I wouldn’t blame you if you don’t approve this. I might should have just kept all this to myself.
In East Tn , if you have sufficient life experience (age), bologna (spelled bolony) was Crown Bologna and nothing compares today. With crackers and cheese, on bread with mayo (JFG here) and tomato, fried, rolled up and eaten by itself , or countless other ways. I had a friend who would buy a whole roll of bologna , peeled it , slice it open down the middle 2/3 of the way through, stuffed it with various goodies, and baked it like a ham. He was a true bologna expert.
Bologna is fine and anyone claiming otherwise is simply foolish. Let me add any food in excess is bad and all foods in moderation is fine. Common sense should dictate such but as it’s now in short supply, one can’t depend on minds or thoughts of others. School lunches aren’t too good and who can blame poor Katie and Corey being disappointed at what was put before them after eating homemade goodness from you and granny and even Deer Hunter WHOS also a good cook! I remember not so long ago going into butcher shops and having homemade garlic bologna cut and wrapped to order. Once Murrman, Carly, Mara and me stopped at a rest stop and I brought out the bologna and bread. A trucker stopped by and asked for a sandwich and I made him a couple as he thanked me for such a small thing. All he wanted was a taste of home. Then there’s Biltmore. You know I’ve been there several times as a chaperone and spectator too. Anyhow, we had Murr’s dad with us and he got too tired walking so Murr drove right on up to the big front door to pick up dad. We were hungry and I get HANGRY SO I made bologna sandwiches right there at Biltmore Front door and boy were they good! Everybody passing just stared as their mouths watered. I cannot give big money at Biltmore for their big fancy atmosphere and I feel confident in my humble eats. I don’t get above my raisins. I’m staying down to earth and don’t worry about the so called high class. If you knew what many of them do and how they live, you’d be glad you are ordinary. Bologna is good. Simple is great!!! Biltmore has a lot to learn as far as I can tell…
Miss Sadie Belle, do you know Arnell, Burnell, Raynell, W.L., Lynell, Odell, Udell, Marcell, Claude, Newgene, and Clovis?
Apologies, but the name Ledbetter made me recall the late Jerry Clower.
My favorite school lunch was fried bologna with mash potatoes on top and melted cheese on that. Only day I would eat school lunch. Lol. My daddy always called bread loaf bread or white bread. We just say bread unless you want something different like rye. Lots of good stories today bringing back good memories. Thanks Tipper for sharing.
I remember we used to call baloney West Virginia steak. I love hot (as in hot sauce) fried baloney sandwiches with a slice of tomato on it. A & W used to sell the best hot baloney sandwiches. We always slit the edges of the baloney with the egg turner to keep the edges of it from curling up while it cooked.
My morther usually had balogna in the fridge, I was always a pb&j kid but I remember havong fried bologna off and on on smushie white bread &mayonaise. Sometimes I added to my tomato sandwich.
I like baloney ( my country boy language) too in the ways you mentioned. I remember in the past when all country.stores would have big long rolls of bologna and always rat cheese ( cakes of cheese that came in wooden box). Hunters, pulpwood cutters, farmers and others of these type would stop by around dinner time (middle of the day) and get a large slice of each, a pack of sody crackers and a coke cola (all drinks were called that no matter the brand) for their
Dinner. The storekeeper would take a butcher knife and cutoff whatever thickness or amount of each that you wanted-same knife used for both. If you waned to take it with you he would wrap up in white butcher paper and tie a string around the package. Back then a sea food dinner was a can of sardines, rat cheese and soda crackers. Those days sure were goods days to live when things were more laid back and simple Tippet done flung another craving on me, tempted to go cook me a piece of boloney along with some eggs for my breakfast. Real easy to tell good healthy food from unhealthy. If it taste good it is unhealthy and if it taste bad it is healthy.
Thank you for this one – “flung another craving on me”
JD one of your Mississippi neighbors would say this in his stories, you may have heard of him, Jerry Clower. Jerry was a comedian that proved you don’t have to be dirty to be funny or successful. He would be serious on some stories my favorite is titled Little Red a story about his runt coon dog and man that owned a drug store helping him (a young boy) out one night after his dog had been badly cut while they were hunting.
I’m a little late to the party, so I don’t know which daughter is Chatter and which is chitter. Can you add that info in an upcoming blog, please?
Joan-Chatter is Corie and Chitter is Katie 🙂
Like you, occasionally I get a hankerin for a bologna sandwich. The thick cut variety, cold or fried with cheddar cheese and tomato and mustard on light bread makes a really good sandwich. We cut the bologna in half to fry it to keep it from cupping so much.
I was wondering if Tipper cut hers but then thought she might just put another cast iron pan on top of it. 😉 My brother used to buy thick sliced and make a half way cut that would make the piece cooking look like a pie with a slice missing. He would cook two so he could cover the cut part. Ate all on white bread with a little Hellmann’s. Good memory.
Fried Bologna is good fried or ‘unfried’. Never thought about putting cheese on it and have always called it light bread. Once in Minnesota we had dinner with another couple that were from Alabama. When the food was served at a restaurant, the gentleman with us, asked the Waitress if she had any ‘light’ bread and without hesitation, she turn and retrieved some from the kitchen. Too funny that someone from that far north knew what he was referring to. Hope the Deer Hunter and you will continue your ‘popsicle’ routine when gardening is done, you have got me started on them in the Florida heat. God Bless.
Bologna is one of those universal staples of a generation. In my childhood the store only had a choice between bologna or salami. The delis now offer what seems to be a hundred different lunch meats. Bologna or salami and most of us chose bologna because it was cheaper and had a lighter taste than salami. My bologna usually had yellow mustard with it. Our other option was a cheese sandwich. I ate that with yellow mustard too. If we didn’t have mustard, mom used Miracle Whip. The only tasty memory I had of school lunches were the hamburgers and apple crisp. That was the only day I bought a school lunch, otherwise I always carried my sack lunch.
My husband’s favorite meal is fried baloney, fried taters, gravy and green beans. And always, always a slice of light bread. Not the most healthy meal, I do give in and make it occasionally for him.
I always have a few packages on hand. Same as Spam. We like it uncooked and fried.
About twice a year I buy a fresh pound of bologna. I like it the same way. The only difference is I like smashed plain chips on the bologna-mayo sandwich. We called them “chater” chips when we were little. It’s not very good for us, but boy it sure tastes good when you get a hankerin!
You reminded me of that old treat – chips on the white bread sandwich. YUM!
“raw” bologna and mustard on white bread. Not much better than that!
I don’t eat much bologna these days, but I sure liked it as a kid. Lots of memories around eating bologna sandwiches or sometimes just take out a slice of bologna, roll it up and eat. Mayo was all I wanted on my bologna sandwich.
When I got a little older, I would occasionally fry the bologna for a sandwich, that was food too!
Bologna was certainly a part of my childhood!
Bologna can hit the spot when nothing else does. There also used to be a lunch meat that was just really good, but have not seen it since we used to get it sliced at the country grocery store.
I have always been a big breakfast fan so when my grandson stayed over, he learned to like the old-fashioned breakfasts instead of cereal. When I ran out of the normal breakfast foods, I would suggest we eat a poor man’s breakfast. This consisted of fried bologna and eggs or fried wieners and eggs. He always smiles when he is at my house when I offer him the poor man’s breakfast. “Balonie” was a mainstay in the Appalachian frig, and it was our fast food growing up. You said maybe not the healthiest, but that is okay, because we can make about anything taste better with a slice of bologna.
Oh yea, we called bologna, poor man’s steak or round steak around home. When we were growing up, we ate bologna A LOT lol Raw & Fried, for a snack, for breakfast, lunch & sometimes for supper. Yes mam my favorite way was fried with cheese melted on it in between two pieces of light with mustard, mayonnaise or just plain!
My Grandaddy Howle use to run an old country store here in our hometown and he sold bologna there, it would come in a big long stick and he would slice it (THICK) and sold it by the pound. Hey also sold lunch meat & hoop cheese I remember it came in a big round wooden crate/container with the red looking wrapping around the outside, man that was so good on a thick slice of bologna with a honey bun & and a good ole Mountain Dew. This post brought back some good memories Miss Tipper! Btw, we still eat bologna today, just not near as much.