On Jun 24, 10:59*am, "l, not -l" > wrote:
> On 24-Jun-2008, Nancy2 > wrote:
>
> > According to the NASCAR folks, fried bologna (baloney) is a Virginia
> > thing. *Is that right?
>
> > N.
>
> As a child growing up in western Kentucky in the late-40s and throughout the
> 50s, we often ate fried b'loney. *Sometimes as a sandwich (on white bread
> slathered with mayo), more often as a meal's meat dish when times were lean
> (my dad was an autoworker and was laid off often until he accrued quite a
> few years of service). *Fried baloney with eggs and toast for breakfast,
> fried baloney and mush for lunch, pintos and buttered white bread for
> dinner. *Heck, sometimes we even had creamed strips of fried baloney on
> toast.
>
> --
> Change Cujo to Juno in email address.

I lived in Bowling Green, Ky, when I was in 6th grade, and my dad was
band director at what was then Western Kentucky State Teachers'
College. My best friend - every day! - had a white bread with sliced
Spam sandwich for lunch. No mayo, no mustard, no butter .... just
Spam and bread. She always asked if I wanted some, and I always said,
"No," because it didn't look very good to me. Still, I love good ol'
Oscar Mayer bologna today, mostly because my mom said it was junk, and
wouldn't ever buy it when I was young.

N.