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From: Cindy Hamilton <chamilton5280@invalid.com>
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Subject: Re: Friday Night's Dinner Fare? 5/30/2025
Date: Sat, 31 May 2025 14:55:52 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-05-31, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> On 2025-05-31 9:40 a.m., songbird wrote:
>> ItsJoanNotJoAnn wrote:
>>
>>> Damn if a fried bologna sandwich doesn't sound tempting,
>>> but no bologna in the house.  So it's going to be homemade
>>> tomato soup here made with roasted tomatoes.  Maybe a
>>> grilled cheese sandwich but at the moment maybe not.
>> 
>>    that all sounds good to me.  fried bologna used to be
>> more common but now good bologna is as expensive as
>> ground chuck.  once in a while i do really want a grilled
>> ham and cheese with yellow mustard on rye or pumpernickle.
>> 
>
> Back in the 1950s when we occasionally had grilled bologna I don't think 
> it was possible to get good bologna. It was cheap meat, basically a 
> variation of a hotdog.  There was no Italian community where I lived. In 
> places where there were Italian communities they poor. They more 
> established were immigrants from a poor country and the more recent 
> Italian immigrants had come from a poor war torn country. The Italian 
> community today is a lot better off than then were 60 years ago and 
> there are quality cold cuts to be had.

I wonder what a grilled mortadella sandwich would be like.

Eh, I'm just as happy to eat it cold or room temperature.

-- 
Cindy Hamilton