Ever grab a prepackaged pile of cold cuts, only to be greeted with a less-than-appetizing film of slime?
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Cold Cuts ID Quiz
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
Cold Cuts ID Quiz
Think you can tell cotto salami from Dutch loaf or summer sausage? Prove you're not just full of baloney with AOL Food's Cold Cuts ID Quiz, then come back to share your score.
Cold Cuts ID Quiz
Read what my Dad had to say about lunchmeat a while back.
Happy National Bologna Day!
Does anyone eat bologna sandwiches anymore? I know there are different kinds of bologna and some are better than others, but the only bologna that I'm familiar with is the packages of Oscar Mayer my mom used to buy when I was a kid. Bologna sandwiches, chips, and soda was one of my staple lunches.
"My baloney has a first name, it's O-S-C-A-R..."
Today is National Bologna Day. Big Oven has several recipes, including Bologna Soup. Here's a recipe for Bologna Sandwich Spread. Or how about another old-time favorite from RecipeZaar, the Fried Bologna Sandwich?
FDA approves viruses to treat foods
The FDA has just approved the a mixture of viruses, bacteriophages, to be used to kill bacteria commonly found in foods, marking the first time that a virus has been approved as a food additive. The mixture contains strains of six different bacteriophages designed to fight Listeria monocytogenes, the bacteria that cause listeriosis, a disease which sickens about 2,500 people per year and kills 500. Listeriosis primarily affects pregnant women, women who have just given birth and infants, in addition to other people who have weakened immune systems for one reason or another. The bacteria is found mostly in packaged, processed meat products, so the additive will be used on cold cuts, various sausages and other "ready to eat" meat products.
The FDA imposed its strictest standards to scrutiny to this additive, developed by a company called Intralytix, and is confident that the bacteriophages are safe. The Department of Agriculture will regulate and supervise the use of the additive. A spokesman for the Office of Food Additive Safety at the FDA says that " consumers will not be aware which meat and poultry products have been treated with the spray."
Bologna art
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.
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