Bologna or baloney

[rumbelly]

This much maligned meat can be used in sandwiches or used for higher purposes when it is BBQ'Q whole or grilled in big chunks. I have lots of detractors but what say you?

Rumbelly

[susanlll]

Fry it, as mentioned above, until it resembles a Stetson. Then fill the cavity with mashed potatoes.

[bobh]

I still make this from 50 years ago. German bologna cut in eights, fried until brown to dark brown. I seperate all the pieces. Cook onions, garlic, green red orange pepper, in oil, mushrooms added. Parsley, basil, oregano added. Small can of tomatoe sauce added. Added together, cooked for 30-40 minutes. Use on rolls for sandwiches. Try it, you'll like it.

[Kagey]

Boar's Head bologna on Pepperidge Farm white bread with mayonnaise. Add a glass of milk and I'm all set. It's the lunch my grandma used to give us when we stayed with her. I could murder one of those now!

[jfood]

Fry slices in a pan until they puff like s stetson. Pile on top of each other and place a slice of american cheese. A little mustard and maybe some cole slaw on a hard roll.

[Divamac]

i grew up on fried balogna sandwiches with american cheese. When I started cooking them for myself (12 or 13 y.o.), I discovered the joy of fried cheese. While the balogna is frying, I placed several slices of cheese in the pan to get crunchy. If done right, I'd scoop the cheese into a pile that is crunchy and chewy and toasty good! Serve the fried cheese along side a sandwich of fried bologna with melted cheese, mustard and sweet relish on white bread. God, i loved that! It's at least 10 years since I've had one of those. I was never able to convince anyone else to eat the fried cheese, though.

[Kagey]

Make it cheddar instead of American cheese and add some red onion and it's my mother's old Flying Saucer Sandwich. Because of the shape of the bologna.

[designerboy01]

Its good with bbq sauce and slaw on bread.

[Bostonbob3]

Anyone been to the Cozy Corner in Memphis? BBQ baloney that will blow your mind.

[tuqueboy]

when i lived in sweden, my exchange host's mom used to make us fried falukorv, which is basically the same thing as bologna, but smaller (thinner). she'd cut it up into inch-long chunks, fry it up in a skillet, and serve it with ketchup and boiled potatoes. greasy heaven.

[Will Owen]

In the South - around Nashville and southern Kentucky, at least - fried bologna as a breakfast meat is fairly common diner fare. My mom also used to make us fried bologna sandwiches. Tex's BBQ in Nashville offers a pretty good barbecued bologna, served as big chunks swimming in a spicy smoky sauce. And my brother has been known to make ham salad using bologna instead.

[LaLa]

Here in Southern Ky I did have fried bolonga with a onion and mustard on as fresh as you can get it white bread for breakfast this morning!Even though it was breakfast I had grippo bbq chips too!

[mochi mochi]

Fried mercifully and rolled in a corn tortilla.

[coll]

We like it on egg sandwiches, cooked on a flat grill until it puffs up.

[Bob Geary]

I had completely forgotten, but the late & lamented Jake & Earl's in Cambridge (MA) used to make a barbecued bologna sandwich that was phenomenally good - maybe because it's such a weird spongily porous meat-substance it has more bits for the smoke to stick to? (Hmmm... and now, years later, I have a smoker of my own...)