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."
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.
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.
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!
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