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Originally Posted by Greyson

People still eat this? I have not seen a fried bologne sandwhich since I was a child living in the projects on the westside of L.A.

Welcome Greyson,

The thing that I find about childhood foods is that many of us cling to them for life. That could be a potato chip, slice of bologna, peanut butter, tamale, pasta, rice with soy sauce, hot dogs, mac n cheese, ..you get the picture. Those early foods make an impression on us. I recall being very young and watching my Mom open a can of Spam. I had never seen this before. She told me something about how when she was young she was fed this and she liked to fry it and have it with eggs once in a while. Well once in a while meant like once a year. Never thought a thing about it until Spam became the name for garbage that we want to throw out online. Then I tool a closer look and saw that my immigrant family living in NYC after WWII had to struggle for a to put food on the table so some of those cheaper meat related products (not sure how to classify Spam!) were helpful.

Funny thing is that one of my buddies is from Austria and they love a good "cold cut" such as bologna or liverwurst, great dried sausages and so on. In Europe folks use the scraps of meats and fat to make sausages or pate's, terrines, or gallantines. Nothing really gets wasted. Bones and gristle become stock.

For me there is not much difference between bologna and a pate'. Both seem to be consumed with a white flour bread product. Interesting huh?