Blast from the past... Fried bologna & egg sandwich

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As a kid, bologna was a main food group for me.
Standard lunch sandwich....
frozen pizza topper....
quick snack....

Of course, when I got older, bologna went the way of the milk carton.... just stopped eating it.

This weekend, I got a taste on, and my wife (who is world class at making grilled sandwiches), made us fried bologna, fried egg and velveeta sandwiches for breakfast!!!

Oh my goodness, it was heavenly! Woke up memories and made the day!
(Also had enough salt to cover 4/5ths of the daily allotment, LOLOL!)

That night, I had a bologna and mustard sandwich. I now understand women and chocolate, hahahaha!
 
Sounds great to me kimchee. I haven't have a fried bologna sandwich for years, but you sure made it sound good. I've never had one with fried egg on it AND Velveta!!!! Oh yeah, that sounds real good. Someday soon I'll have a blast from the past myself. :D
 
I make a grilled cheese with bologna quite tasty actually can't say I've ever had a egg on the sandwich, may be something to try next time.
 
OMG! I hadn't given this a thought in nearly 50 years. My mother used to make fried bologna sandwiches.

Both bologna and Velveta are on the list of things I don't buy, but I just may have to give in for this old time memory.




Last time I tried something from my childhood, it was AWFUL! Campbell's Cream of Tomato Soup and a grilled cheese (Kraft American Singles on fluffy white bread). The soup tasted like it was loaded with sugar or corn syrup, and the cheese tasted like the plastic it was wrapped in. So I should have learned my lesson .........

but...............



This just sounds so good!
 
I remember making 2 sandwiches for lunch (in the summer), carefully covering the bread with yellow mustard to the very edges, with no white showing. Not too thick, didn't want it dripping and Mom giving me the guilt trip.
One slice of bologna per sandwich, close them up, then SMUUUUSH them really flat with my hands.
Off to the couch, which had arms perfectly wide enough for a Tom Swift book.
I nibbled off the crusts one at a time, keeping the sandwich as square as possible, then did each side in nibbles, till I had a little teeny square bite left.
(That was fun, and it prolonged reading time.)
Then the last bite, yum!
I think I might have to have a sammich tonight during Read Time!
 
>>learned my lesson .........

for grilled cheese - here's the lesson I've learned....

pick a white bread. country/peasant/ it's one of the few things where wonderbread can excel....

use a 'cheddar style' block of cheese, hand slice about 3/16" thick, overlap on bread.

in a pan, with melted butter, grill the sandwich; add mo' buttah as needed.

now. the problem is getting the heat _exactly_ right so the bread toasts nicely and is done at the same time the cheese has gone ooey-gooey.

yup. doesn't work for me, either.

so I pan toast the bread; 2-3 minutes per side until it' is just gorgeous looking. remove to small plate, directly from pan to microwave, 10 seconds on HIGH and I've got ooey-gooey cheese and perfect crust.

legal disclaimer: failure to get the microwave timing right can result in ooey-gooey cheese that'll raise real big blisters in yo' mouth.

works best pan-to-microwave-zero-time lag-while-cheese-is-still-warm/hot-from-frying.

delaying for later batch processing makes for hot cheese & soggy toast.

your cheese may vary.
 
I use whatever bread is handy and velvetta cheese. No problem getting the cheese ooey-gooey when frying the sandwich in butter in the skillet. That and soup is my go to dinner when it's cold and rainy.
 
Kimchee said:
I now understand women
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my god man. please tell me the brand of bologna you ate!!!!


lol, j/k. fried bologna and eggs is a long forgotten favourite of mine as well. thanks for the reminder, i think i'll make one soon.

and lol chowder. nothing like blisteringly hot cheese.
good technique with the nuker, btw.
 
I LOVE bologna! Just on white bread with mayo.

I could have that every day!

Lee
 
I've never heard of a fried bologna sandwich. I make mine with bologna, dill pickle, mustard, a slice of cheese, mayo, and lettuce. The bread of choice is wheat.
 
Fried baloney was a staple in our house of 5 boys, as was grilled cheese with Campbell's Tomato Soup. Today I avoid baloney, but I make grilled cheese on my honey whole wheat bread, and use Mozzarella, Provolone and Munster cheeses, along with thinly sliced sweet onion. I butter the top piece of bread, and melt butter in the pan to get the first side cooked, then flip it over and finish the second side.
 
Mmmm, I love Kretschmar beef baloney with lettuce, mayo and a sprinkling of black pepper on thick cut white bread.
Sometimes I've substituted ranch dressing for the mayo.
 
baloney (we call baloney jumbo) sammiches frequented my lunchbox during my elementary days when the lunches offered were substandard- my Mom/i would make them w/thin slices of jumbo from the deli (we preferred that over the pre-packaged oscar meyer kind), scads of mayonnaise, iceberg on cheap bread. mustard here & there. luved them!
 
luvs said:
baloney (we call baloney jumbo) sammiches frequented my lunchbox during my elementary days when the lunches offered were substandard- my Mom/i would make them w/thin slices of jumbo from the deli (we preferred that over the pre-packaged oscar meyer kind), scads of mayonnaise, iceberg on cheap bread. mustard here & there. luved them!
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lol, i meant the days when the lunchtrays offered were substandard..... the sammiches weren't!
 
I don't like chocolate, I like to work with it but I can't eat it.

Bologna, cremwurst (they look like hot dogs but a larger version and different texture), liverwurst and spam were frequent in my life while I was in college.
To this day I can eat them with pleasure, just bread and mustard.

I remember one day, I got off the train on a hot summer day, in the station a cremwurst vendor was having a great sell... I got 3 cremwurst with mustard and fresh bread and a cold beer. I am not a beer drinker but that was soooo good at the time.

Thanks for triggering nice memories.
 
JackieBlue said:
Wow fried bologna! Haven't had that in years.
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I hadn't either JB. Thanks to the Kimchee reminder of this old fav, I had one this week. :D
 
I'm campaigning for them for dinner tonight again... so far my boss, uh, wife, doesn't sound too interested.
But if she doesn't give me an alternative soon... well, I'm the cook, so.....

heheheheheheee
 
Kimchee said:
I'm campaigning for them for dinner tonight again... so far my boss, uh, wife, doesn't sound too interested.
But if she doesn't give me an alternative soon... well, I'm the cook, so.....

heheheheheheee
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LOL that's funny!

I'm home with my son today. No school for him because he's not feeling well. So I made both of us chicken soup and grilled cheese. Great comfort food for a rainy day.
 
I lost... we are having Kroger fried chicken, taters, salad...
Hard working scientist wife needs HER comfort food, poor thing.
 
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