We reminisce about the sandwiches our parents made — cold slices on white Wonder Bread with mayo, or a thick slice fried until its edges curled, then dressed on a bun with mustard and cheese — tucked inside brown paper bags. What is the history of bologna in America — and does it have a future? We also might shudder at the bologna sandwiches we were forced to eat, with their cold, slippery, overly thick slices. We protest — even riot — over the indignity of consuming bologna.
Bologna might contain garlic or spices. It might come smoked, pickled, or packaged bearing a first and second name in the refrigerated grocery aisle. But what is the history of bologna in America — and does it have a future? Like many culinary traditions now considered quintessentially American, bologna was a product of immigration. Its origins lie in Italy — in the city of Bologna, to be specific — where mortadella has been a beloved sausage meat for millennia.
In , mortadella was such a delicacy that "the papacy officially laid down the legal definition" for it, Vice writes , to protect its integrity as a "subtly seasoned delicacy made of lean pork speckled with lumps of lard. Some of the strongest bologna traditions hail from regions where German immigrants settled, like the Midwest, Appalachia, and Pennsylvania.
Bologna is popular in the South and parts of Canada, too; according to The Vancouver Sun , "95 percent of Canadian bologna consumption is in Atlantic Canada, half of that in Newfoundland. Bologna took on new forms for each region. Serious Eats describes ring bologna — often garlicky, smoked, and stuffed into casings — as "the crown jewel of Midwest bologna.
Newfoundlanders call fried bologna slices "newfie steaks. And country stores in Appalachian towns formerly kept ropes of pickled bologna in jars, which writer Silas House once eulogized as "an extravagance, an indulgence… a symbol of attainment" for those who had grown up poor.
Bologna was one of the more accessible meats of the early 20th century. It kept well and, most importantly during the Great Depression and the war-rationing era, it was cheap. Made out of discarded or fatty parts of meat, even organ meat in some places, bologna was more affordable than ham or salami.
Even if you are a huge bologna fan, the idea of being locked up in the Dakota County Jail sounds pretty awful because bologna is all you get. The jail serves two turkey bologna sandwiches and a small side dish of fruit per inmate, seven days a week, days a year. Even on Christmas. In Alabama, a sheriff was locked up after feeding the inmates at his jail grits and paper-thin bologna sandwiches. Wardens in Alabama are allowed to pocket money left over from providing inmates with meals, and bologna is a very inexpensive choice to feed inmates.
In Alaska, two Muslim inmates were fed bologna sandwiches during Ramadan and later sued for having their civil rights violated.
Infamous Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio not only makes his inmates wear pink socks and underwear, but he has also boasted about serving them rotten food, including green bologna. Most prisons allow access to vending machines and canteen services where incarcerated people can supplement these meager mealtime offerings, but all that talk about bad bologna is enough to make anyone rethink any illegal activity that may result in jail time.
People do some very bizarre things with bologna. They put it on their pets. They throw it at their friends. And some people urinate on it and leave it on their neighbor's doorstep. Well, at least one guy does. According to KOB4, a mystery man in Albuquerque was leaving bags of bologna and white bread, that smelled suspiciously like urine, on the doorknobs of the residents in one neighborhood. Another bizarre prank involves putting slices of bologna on cars so when the bologna is peeled off, the paint also gets stripped off.
It's not guaranteed that this prank actually works, because a YouTube video suggests otherwise. Bologna was left on that car for twenty hours and no damage can be seen. Bologna shouldn't be used for any of these things. It should be kept safe and cozy between two slices of bread and never used as a weapon — or as a hat for your adorable cat. Make America grub again because grub is food and lunch is food And what do these sandwiches contain? The Donald is not the first president to be associated with bologna.
Barbara Bush handed out bologna sandwiches at a soup kitchen in Washington. President Obama served bologna sandwiches at a D. But restaurants from New York to Sweden are serving up the Donald Trump special which is, "white bread, full of baloney, with Russian dressing and a small pickle. If you thought the only way to eat bologna on a sandwich was to open the package, pull the little red string off, and slap it into bread you'd be sadly mistaken, because you can also enjoy the down-home deliciousness of bologna salad.
Nobody knows exactly where bologna salad came from. It may have just been an offshoot of ham salad when a clever housewife only had bologna in her refrigerator in the s so she decided to whip that into a bologna salad. But everyone knows someone who has a grandma or an aunt or a cousin who made this. Bologna was cut up and mixed with mayonnaise and pickle relish and sometimes celery. Then you either ate it on white bread or with crackers.
If you read a recipe online , a lot of the comments are "I ate this growing up" and "Wow, I thought only my grandmother made this. Sidebar Sidebar. JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
Previous Next. Jun 27, 11, 1 0. Tastes like a mix of lard and salt. Feb 17, 35, 1 Jun 28, 5, 1 0. WTF is bologna? LordMaul Lifer. Nov 16, 15, 1 0. Thats why I always eat Nefcheese Pastore Diamond Member. Feb 9, 9, 0 0. FrogDog Diamond Member. Jan 12, 4, 0 0. Hey, I don't mind a good piece of bologna now and then.
Oct 21, 30, 10 0 dennilfloss. Garlic bologna, thinly sliced, fried and covered in tomato sauce. So Fresh Will Smith. Stifko Diamond Member. Dec 8, 4, 2 Wagman, who is not keen on all the unhealthy stuff in bologna, often makes soups or chili for her children, 7 and She received plain, utterly forgettable sandwiches for lunch when she was their age. Take it or leave it,' " she recalls, acknowledging that there is something to be said for that old-fashioned albeit convenient approach.
Still, it is not an attitude she intends to adopt because she would worry — for good reason —that her children would call her bluff and actually leave their lunches untouched. Bologna is an acquired taste, yet those who like it love it. Oakville, Ont. Phillips is an ardent cheerleader for the lunch meat. A Newfoundlander by origin and in heart, Mr. Phillips recalls that bologna was one of the few meat products available in his fish-reliant province when he was growing up in the s.
Bologna was cheap, easy to transport and preserved to last the winter, he says, noting that he still enjoys making sandwiches out of the pink, floppy stuff.
Bologna sandwiches are juicy, they are comforting and they are delicious, he says. They are not fancy — quite the opposite. But they will do the trick. The difference between bologna and mortadella. Mortadella is a classic sausage of Bologna, Italy, made of pork that has been ground and minced into a fine consistency, then poached until quite firm.
A key ingredient to traditional mortadella is pork stomach, which gives it a distinctive flavour and natural gelatin, allowing it to be sliced very thinly, adds John van der Lieck, owner of the Oyama Sausage Company in Vancouver. Pelan says, while bologna "is disgusting.
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