Famous Death Row Last Meals
Food Fights: The Biggest Culinary Scandals Of 2011
Everyone knows that on New Year's Eve, New York City drops a glittery ball over Times Square. However, there are a number of other cities around the country that also drop objects as a way to welcome the new year and, in Pennsylvania, they all seem to be food related.
In Bethlehem, a specially rigged crane lowers an enormous, illuminated Peep (Just Born, the company that makes the marshmallow confections, is located in Bethlehem) at midnight. In Lebanon, PA, the local fire department lowers a 7 and a half foot long bologna (but what do they do with it afterwards?). Pottsville raises a giant bottle of Yuengling (pronounced Ying-Ling), the city of Hershey lowers a huge, foil-wrapped Kiss and Elizabethtown drops a oversized M&M.
It certainly makes Philly's fireworks and day-long Mummer's Parade pale in comparison! Next year, I think we should drop a gargantuan cheesesteak.
[via CBS3]
Jennifer Aniston's Effortlessly Sexy Style
Whitney Houston Dead: Singer Dies at 48, Body Found in Beverly Hilton Hotel
Sheryl Crow Loves To Flaunt Toned Physique
Whitney Houston, Bobbi Kristina: Late Singer's Daughter Hospitalized
Whitney Houston Dead: Stars React to Legend's Sudden Death
QUIZ: How Much Do You Know About Marriage In The U.S.?
Whitney Houston Autopsy: Cause of Death Determined?
Grammy Red Carpet 2012 (PHOTOS)
PHOTOS: Remembering Whitney Houston's Glittering Style
Tips for flying cheaper in 2012
Grammy 2012 Winners' List: Adele Sweeps Music's Biggest Night
LINSANITY CONTINUES
There's only one thing to do when the Nürburgring is covered in snow...
Tax Reform in This Election Year: It's Not Likely
Comforter Soaked In Blood Found In Josh Powell's Storage Unit
Whitney Houston, Bobby Brown: Ex-Husband Honors Singer Onstage
Grammy Awards 2012: The Best & Worst Of The Red Carpet!
TV's Best Music Moments
The Happiest People In The World...
Mitt Romney Wins Maine Caucus
PHOTOS: Two Outfits, One Day!
WATCH: Chainsaw-Wielding Thug Attacks Pub Crawlers
Chloë Moretz Is All Grown Up
Simon Cowell: Whitney Would've Been The Ultimate 'X Factor' Mentor
New Rankings Finds D.C. Is A Great Place For Single Men
'There's No Way She's Dead'
SLIDESHOW: Scientists On God
PHOTOS: J.Lo Strips Down
Former Wall Street Journal Columnist, Best-Selling Author Dies
12 Grammys Stars Who Gave Good Style
WATCH: Adorable Animals Riding Other Animals
15 Obnoxious Notes From Roommates
12-31-2008 @4:20PM Jen said... I can't believe you left out the pickle drop in Dillsburg, PA.
Reply
1-03-2009 @11:49AM woostery said... Even though I've never been to Lebanon, I feel I have to point out that the bologna they dropped there wasn't just bologna, but Lebanon Bologna, a cured, fermented, smoked, white-flecked (at a glance it looks more like salami than bologna), semi-dry sausage. The news reports really should have made it clear. (It would be like substituting the words "beef navel" for "pastrami.")
It's a phenomenally tasty cured meat and it appears it could be dying out, so Slashfood would do well to find some of the stuff and pump it up!
Wikipedia on Lebanon Bologna:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon_bologna
One firm that still makes lebanon bologna:
http://www.seltzerslebanonbologna.com/
And for final confirmation that Lebanon bologna is distinct, a cite for a biomedical article on the Microbiology of Lebanon Bologna
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=379833
Check out Lebanon bologna. It's fantastic.
Reply