"lunch meat" news and stories

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."

Gourmet Boutique has issued a recall of 286,000 lbs of deli luncheon meat for possible contamination by listeria. The meats were used in sandwich wraps and other ready-to-eat products. The USDA has classified this recall as Class I, "reasonable probability that the use of the product will cause serious, adverse health consequences or death," or what I would call "pretty damn serious."

The list of potentially affected wraps and other ready-to-eat products from the company are listed here.

[via: Consumerist]

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Must a sandwich be a construction of two slices of bread and some sort of savory filling? No. We have seen scores of sandwiches of all kinds, including dessert sandwiches, and are bound to see many more for our upcoming Sandwich Day, but none, as of yet, have been as inventive as these are. These sandwiches almost defy words with their fun and creative constructions, made with a variety of lunch meats, vegetables and cheeses, supported with bread and pretzel sticks. The downside, of course, of something like this is that you might be reluctant to eat them once you've put them together, no matter how tasty they look.

More pics after the jump.

[via Neatorama and Cool Hunting]

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