"George Shirley" > wrote in message
...
> 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.
>>
> My Dad loved his baloney, had to be the type still in the sausage
> shape with the red cover. He would slice it thick. Favorite sandwich
> was a quarter inch slice of baloney, equal amount of white onion,
> black pepper, and the bread had to have mustard on it. Carried that
> or an olive loaf sandwich in his lunch bucket for 40 years. He also
> ate deviled ham and vienna sausage on a regular basis. the only
> thing he ate that I liked, and still like, was sardines on a cracker
> with a little mustard. Dad ate fried salt pork most mornings for
> breakfast, I could never stomach the stuff myself.

George, sounds like your father may have been a coal miner, My
grandfather and
father was for several years till he left that for something else.They
were the only
ones I remember calling their lunch box a lunch bucket. It looked like
an aluminum
bucket with wire handle, about 8" round, came in three pieces. bottom
held water
for drinking and ice, if they had it, to keep the top part cool where
their sandwiches
were kept, always wrapped in wax paper and a top over it all that fit
down snug to
keep the inside clean and free of coal dust.
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