Putting Bologna Back on the List
By Jim Bauer
@porwest (104609)
United States
August 2, 2025 8:04pm CST
Now, I will say this. Bologna is not everyone's cup of tea. But I remember as a kid, this being one of my favorite sandwiches. And in my early adult years there was a way to eat it that might turn your stomach, so tread lightly through this post.
It was a bologna sandwich with Miracle Whip, cheese, onions, sliced pickles and...bologna.
Almost kinda like a shrunken down, poor man's Dagwood from the famous Dagwood Bumstead cartoons by cartoonist Chic Young.
Man, I tell you. It's definitely probably a heart attack between two slices of bread, but I can't tell you how much I enjoyed these.
It has been a long time since I have had one of these, and it's been a long time since I have even had bologna in the house. But it's going back on the list, and one of these sandwiches sure in the hell is too.
I'm actually looking quite forward to it.
Is there a way you like to eat bologna, and when it comes to a bologna sandwich, what's your favorite way to eat one?
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13 responses
@DaddyEvil (155722)
• United States
17h
I don't eat bologna anymore but mom used to fry it and we'd make sandwiches with it when I was a kid. I'm glad you're enjoying it.
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@DaddyEvil (155722)
• United States
9h
@porwest Don't forget to slice into it a little way so it doesn't balloon up on you in the fry pan. Mom did that to keep it laying mostly flat in the pan.
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@porwest (104609)
• United States
9h
@DaddyEvil I forgot about that. lol. But you're right. If you don't, they do get that little "air pocket" under them.
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@thislittlepennyearns (65375)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
16h
I got bologna in the last shopping trip. I need to make some fried bologna. BAR S makes garlic bologna and its amazing.
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@thislittlepennyearns (65375)
• Defuniak Springs, Florida
1h
@porwest Espeially for how cheap it is. LOL.
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@porwest (104609)
• United States
Just now
@thislittlepennyearns That's a big factor. And hey, Bar S is good. I eat their hot dogs too. They actually have a good line of products.
@2ndchances24 (10718)
• Cloverdale, Indiana
18h
I have never liked the stuff my self but use to fry it
for the better 1/2 when he'd come in off the road a few days
& make him a few for on the road to eat, but since I've
been home from the hosp he has changed what he eats
now, cause he goes with me to my dr appts to get what
they say with my sugar & all I have to keep on top of.
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@2ndchances24 (10718)
• Cloverdale, Indiana
32m
@porwest your right, Neither is hotdogs Or
any meat that is mixed with other meats like that.
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@Ineeddentures (13057)
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17h
Omg that's baloney you are talking about.
I had that in Indiana.
With bread and ketchup. And pasta in a tomato dauce
It was all the guy had in the house but we were all really stoned so it was just what the doctor ordered.
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@porwest (104609)
• United States
9h
Yep, and that's pretty much how we pronounce it too. "Baloney." I have heard that in the UK it's called polony, but I don't know that for sure. I usually prefer mustard or Miracle Whip on my bologna. I don't think I've ever used ketchup. But I can see where a red sauce of some sort might be used if one is using bigger chunks, say, from a ring bologna and incorporating it into a dish like that.
@snowy22315 (193873)
• United States
19h
I was thinking Dagwood sandwich when I saw that .
I rarely eat it, but I like it fried.
I rarely eat it, but I like it fried.1 person likes this
@Vikingswest1 (7240)
• United States
18h
I prefer beef bologna. I do not want to watch how it's made.
I like a toasted bologna with summer sausage, cheddar cheese, lettuce, Miracle Whip, yellow mustard on an onion bun.
I prefer one sandwich with 2x meat and cheese over 2 sandwiches.
One winter, my family drove from Minneapolis to Danbury, Wisconsin to check on the cabin. There had been heavy snowballs and what was supposed to be a quick turnaround trip, turned into hours of snow removal and clearing of fallen branches. We weren't able to drive up the driveway because the snow made it impassable. While my Dad and the rest of us kids were clearing the roof of the cabin and digging out, Mom drove into town for food.
The shelves were nearly empty because the locals had stripped them clean before the storm. She returned with bread, bologna and mustard. She got a 12 pack of Shasta cola and some Oreos.
That was the best sandwich that I've ever had. We built a fire and dug out the picnic table and had lunch. It may sound stupid to some, but that bologna sandwich is a big part of one of my fondest memories.
I had a toasted sandwich like I mentioned just a few days ago.
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@Fleura (32166)
• United Kingdom
8h
Events like that really stick in your mind!
I remember a holiday in southern France with a group of friends. One day we returned from an outing planning to buy supplies for dinner on the way home. We hadn't realised that in France the shops didn't open on Sundays, so there was really nowhere to buy anything, and all we had in the cupboard was some rice.
We managed to find a petrol station that was open and had a few groceries so we bought some chicken, then on the way back I noticed a hillside we were driving past was covered in juniper bushes and wild thyme. I jumped out and gathered some thyme and then pan-fried the chicken with butter and thyme and ate it with rice, it was absolutely delicious and I still remember it!
@Traceyjayne (3854)
• United Kingdom
10h
I’ve never heard of it ….we don’t have it in the UK. but the photo looks amazing …..
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@LindaOHio (196637)
• United States
3h
I used to like it fried. I also enjoyed a veal bologna sandwich; but I no longer eat veal. Haven't had bologna in decades. Your sandwich sounds OK except for the onions of course.
