Bologna sandwiches and tomato soup?

Sounds like it is comes from someone without much money. Cheap lunch ... so it is either the mom can’t afford much or at one time when he was they could not so he had it growing up and now it is comfort food.

I remember eating bologna sandwiches when I was young. Tomato soup too but I haven’t eaten either in decades.

If you don't want to get the archetype bologna why not get a higher quality German bologna from a reputable deli in lieu of that obvious Oscar Mayer garbage or something cheaper?


This comes from the same lazy argument against hot dogs as if there isn't a super huge spectrum of quality in hot dogs. Of course, like higher quality hot dogs, you're going to pay a much higher per-serving price. But isn't "all things in moderation" still a valid dietary and financial reasoning to splurge once and awhile?

yup... brown bag school lunch.
baloney on wonder bread... with mayo.
from age five to seven, roughly...

I guess coming from humble beginnings, and also having lived as a homeless person for almost a year - maybe these things make my attitude about things like cheap foods a little more forgiving.

I cringe when someone calls food that is less than gourmand-level "garbage".
I can afford better now, but I still wouldn't turn my nose up at a bologna sandwich with lettuce tomato and mayo on white bread. Or a good hot bowl of canned tomato soup. I hate snobs - food snobs too.

America's hunters hunt on full stomachs, with fancy hunting gear and high powered rifles, and call it "sport". Americans waste about a pound of food per person per day, with those who eat the healthiest wasting the most.

Damn, did I write all that out? I badly digress.

Yeah - German, butcher shop bologna is definitely better tasting. And I bet if you make tomato soup from scratch, that's a lot better too. Get the good stuff, if you can... absolutely.

Bologna sausage originated in Italy, and is named after the city it comes from. I'm sure they have some high quality product there. You can find high quality product here as well.

A bologna sandwich is a simple pleasure in life.

I won't turn down a free Oscar Mayer bologna sammich but I wouldn' go out of my way to buy a large pack of the meat. I would be in a far worse economic position if I had to buy that kind of cheap luncheon meat.

Admittedly, garbage is a bit of hyperbole to put the deli German bologna in proper perspective on the spectrum of lunch meats.

It never occurred to me they didn’t have much money considering where they live but like most people that live in expensive homes in Orange County live beyond their means are in debt. .

I followed this recipe for the tomato soup, easy to make and very tasty.

Classic Tomato Soup Recipe

Yum! The soup sounds like the star. Grilled cheese, please.

Growing up, we used to eat thick cut fried bologna sandwiches with mustard. Really, so good.

Great point I did this when my daughter (after being at my parents house) asked me to get bologna when she was young and also the few times we get hot dogs we get the best quality at the butchers deli.

We've been looking for a tomato soup recipe, thanks!

To save time just smear the baloney with tomato ketchup and roll it up.

Peanut butter sandwich and ketchup in hot water was a good meal.

My mother would make us bologna sandwiches with mustard to take to school, and the local deli would wrap fried bologna around a crunchy Kosher hotdog (it was wonderful). She would also make grilled cheese sandwiches and Tomato soup (which we also loved). Every so often mr. g'bag and I have grilled cheese and tomato bisque soup for dinner, but it doesn't take a lot of imagination to jazz up them up a little. Neither one of us is ravenous at dinnertime anymore, so we keep it simple most days and live it up on other days.

Tomato soup calls for peanut butter sandwiches. That, or grilled cheese. Both are good for dunking in the soup.

never liked tomato soups , but I do love bean and bacon with tomato chunks . That calls for a Sweet -Lebanon baloney sammich with Ohio Swiss Cheese in thick cut slabs. Horseradish mustard please.
Favorite "Field sammiches" were always shrimp Po Boys or Muffelattas. When I was flying between rigs We had a chopper whose service had neat fridges in their chopper tunnels. So I had maybe two days worth of sammiches that Id have made at a great sammich place in the Quarter. Id always get a couple extra for my geologists stationed on the rigs, and they would have shrimp from "buy boats". These were kind of like the oyter buying boats of the Chesapeake eacept they plied the rig network of the inner Gulf, and were more like 90 foot "grocery stores" . Rig cooks were always gtting people on and off therigs so often they couldnt keep up and the buy boats would have the makings for anything from aNAWLINS feast to an humble chowder .

German bologna, never heard of it but will look for it next time I'm at the market

I wonder if this stuff is any good?

Had liverwurst before? Same thing basically.

Braunschweiger is a milder and sweeter form of Liverwurst. I really despise Liverwurst, Its very strong and salty, whereas Braunschweiger is livery but has a smoky sweet meaty taste that goes well with onion and mayo on rye or toasted whole wheat.

Rosenfeld's Deli (down In the Delaware Beach area) has several styles of classic liverwurst and/or Braunschweiger sammiches.