"bologna" news and stories

Is Bologna the New Bacon?

by Hanna Raskin, Posted Sep 10th 2009 @ 2:00PM

Photo: Hardee's.

Hardee's is having startling success with a humble Appalachian lunch meat long considered too provincial for nationwide tastes, and nobody's more surprised than the fast-food chain's top brass.

"We were concerned it would be too regional," Executive Vice-President of Marketing Brad Haley says of Hardee's new Oscar Mayer Fried Bologna Biscuit. "But sales have increased every week we've had it."

While bologna is a staple of lunch counters and school cafeterias across the South, Hardee's found inspiration for its menu item at a few roadside diners that sandwiched grilled bologna between biscuit halves for breakfast. For Hardee's, the preparation stood seductively close to the final meat frontier.

"We've done virtually every other meat you can think of on a biscuit," Haley concedes. "We've had country ham, chicken, pork chops, smoked sausage. We even had turkey."

Filed under: Ingredients, Fast Food, New Products

Cold Cuts ID Quiz

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by Slashfood Editor, Posted Sep 1st 2009 @ 4:19PM

Can you identify a cold cut by sight alone, or will your wits be spoiled? Check out these lunch meats and test your sandwich smarts!

Cold Cuts ID Quiz

This soft, air-dried sausage is usually made with a combo of beef and pork.

Mortadella
Dutch Loaf
Lebanon Bologna
Cotto Salami

This is a turkey version of which classic cold cut?

Corned Beef
Pastrami
Bastirma
Brisket

This traditional cut has been so long beloved, it's the star of an English ballad first performed in the 1730s.

Roast Beef
Brisket
Corned Beef
Smoked Meat

This dry cured ham is simply lip smacking when wound around melon slices.

Pancetta
Capicola
Sopressatta
Prosciutto

Name these hams from left to right.

Pressed Ham / Black Forest Ham
Turkey Ham / Chopped Ham
Black Forest Ham / Turkey Ham
Chopped Ham / Pressed Ham

A small dash of white wine contributes to the flavor of this cured, sometimes multi-meat Italian treat.

Genoa Salami
Nostrano
Capicola
Bresaola

We can't pretend this is anything but olive loaf. What ingredient is not found in it?

Corn Syrup
Mechanically Separated Chicken
Red Peppers
Cloves

This picture is full of baloney. What varieties are they from top to bottom?

Beef / Turkey / Chicken & Pork
Soy / Turkey / Beef
Chicken & Pork / Beef / Turkey
Beef / Soy / Pork

This soft, smoked meat is a variety of liverwurst,.

Cervelat
Gelbwurst
Leberkase
Braunschweiger

This pork and beef sausage is cured, rather than cooked.

Lebanon Bologna
Hard Salami
Mortadella
Morcilla

This smoked, juniper-flavored proscuitto is also known as what?

Speck
Bresaola
Lardo
Presunto

This kosher cut is a grocery store staple.

Dutch Loaf
Spiced Luncheon Loaf
Beef Salami
Summer Sausage

Name these ham styles from left to right.

Black Forest Ham / Chopped Ham
Smithfield Ham / Black Forest Ham
Chopped Ham / Smithfield Ham
Virginia Ham / Chopped Ham

The name of this American-made, Italian style sweet salami means

Filed under: Quizzes, Ingredients

Box Lunch: Going down to South Park

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by Emily Matchar, Posted Nov 5th 2008 @ 12:00PM

For your lunchtime pleasure, I'm presenting a series of my favorite bento boxes. Bento are Japanese home-prepared meals served in special boxes, usually eaten for lunch at work or school. These days, bento enthusiasts from all over the world share their creations on Flickr.

Bologna makes surprisingly realistic cartoon skin, doesn't it? Sakurako Kitsa's goofy bologna sandwich is decorated with a bologna-faced South Park-style character, complete with zucchini hair and shoes, and a bell pepper shirt. He stands atop a broccoli bush, with Green Goddess dipping sauce adorned with a carrot star.

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Filed under: Food Oddities

Bologna art

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by Nick Vagnoni, Posted Feb 21st 2006 @ 1:04PM

What with all the earth-shattering news of bacteria in ice machines and Waffle House taking credit cards, I figured we could use something a little silly. I'd say these bologna figures from MediaBum.com fit the bill. Really, I wish I could give you more background, but there isn't much provided. What? You're not impressed with just four? Well there are more than 50 of them. Someone obviously had some free time, and plenty of cold cuts. I can just imagine an unmanned deli counter in a supermarket somewhere...

If anyone knows who the creator is, please let me know.

Filed under: Food Oddities, On the Blogs, Ingredients

Amazon's Bologna

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by James Yu, Posted Jan 12th 2006 @ 10:40AM

Amazon is now selling gourmet foods--a great idea, I might add. Soon, we'll be able to get everything off of Amazon. But, I was suprised to find out that they also sell bologna. Yes, you got that right: you can now get all your bologna fixes straight from the internet at Amazon. The comments are also quite amusing. And really, do they really need to rate this? It's bologna!