CC wrote:
>
> "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.
> CC
My Dad went to work in an oil refinery at age fifteen. Prior to that he
worked as a teamster on a 20-mule team that drew a stone sledge in
Central Louisiana, that was from age twelve to fourteen. At fourteen
they moved to Beaumont, Texas and Dad became the chief lumber grader for
the Neches Lumber Company. He was to small to flip the timbers so had
some big laborers to do it for him. He worked in the refinery from 1926
until 1 January 1967. He retired at age 55 with over 40 years service
and there were some other men who retired with him who were two or three
years younger than he was.

I followed him into the oil patch in 1961 and always called the steel
container I carried my lunch in a bucket also. Just habit I guess as Dad
said his first lunch bucket was a 3-lb lard bucket that had been well
scrubbed. I still have his plastic lunch bucket with his name painted on
the lid, wouldn't take anything for it.