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Wow....I hope you didn't make like 5 lbs of it.
Thats alot of Bologna !!!

For those of you that don't live in my area....we don't call
it bologna.....we call it bolony.
I don't know why....its just the way it is and always has been.
 
X-RAYTECH

my family is from an area not too far from you....

uniontown
mcclendontown
hooverworks beehive coke ovens
masontown

an area where they still use wringer washers, coal heaters that you have to "bank" at night, out houses, and they call soda "POP"...I love to go back and visit...good ole fashioned living....what a great time we always have...
 
Uniontown and Masontown are really close to me, and you musn't forget our slang like tin foil and gum bands, samiches and chimleys and of course youns or yins the equivalent of ya'll. and that it is woosh and not wash, like woosh clothes or wooshington.
We also live where there is no gas service or cable avaliable, we have wells and septic tanks because there is no public water or sewage, clotheslines are abundant, and being so close to West virginia a good possibility that at least one person in your neighborhood has at least 1 junk car in their yard.
And if you want to go out to dinner you must drive to town which is like 15 miles away and there is no such thing as having a pizza or chineese food delivered. A high end store would be J.C.Penney or Sears Roebuck.
And we cant forget that the roads that are paved never get repaved but the potholes are patched in the early spring and then the roads get tar and chipped in mid summer, but the dirt roads get a fresh coat of gravel in the late spring after the potholes are fixed.
 
Ah!...great memories of times passed...havent been there in about 2 years....family gets bigger yet farther apart and 2nd and 3rd cousins don't keep in touch tha much...

I loved going to "PEACHINS" for shopping bargains and then to Montgomery Wards...we don't have that out here....and not to mention Gabrielle's....not sure if its still called that, name kept changing, went there with my partner, they actually had a big/tall section, 4 shopping carts later and only spent 90.00...what a great place...we always have to visit the caves and the big cross on the hill everytime...I was out there in 1999, just came over the top of summit mountain, rt40, and my brakes went to the floor, scared the crap out of me all the way down, riding the emergency brake, all safe but never want to do that again! that was also the first tme I seen a super walmart that was open all night...got my oil changed at 2am...we just got a super walmart here a few months ago....we usually stayed with my aunt out there...i loved the little house, 2bedrooms, kitchen, livingroom...no hot water, no bathroom, only cold water to the sink, water ran out onto the ground, outhouses, had to go outside to get to the basement, carry coal in for the furnace, for them that was everyday life, but i really had a great time, all the stories my parents would tell us about living back home on the farm....best part for me was, of coarse, washing the clothes in the maytag wringer and hanging the clothes on the line, and the rinse bucket...I could have left big city life for that in a minute...just fond memories of great times!
 
I have heard a lot of Peachins, but have never been there. I work with quite a few people from uniontown and daisytown and masontown who frequent that place. I was just out Rte 40 2 weeks ago for the Pike festival, but didnt make it bast beallsville and bentleyville.
asnd I feel there is nothing like traffic(2-3 cars in line creeping along)caused by getting stuck behind a tractor or when one of the neighbor's cows gets loose and wont get off of the road.I was late for work once when I nworked in Pittsburgh because of the neighbors cow, those city folk just stared in amazement that it was even possible, even better the day I came in and said I had hit a cow on my way home th night before. What more can you expect from a tiny town that main street is a yellow brick road.
 
I made the bologna salad yesterday.....I was never a big fan of it so maybe that is why I didn't care for this salad. My mom use to make about the same thing but used ham. Now that I liked. At any rate the dispoal got a big bowl of it today.LOL
 
It's" balony" here in Michigan too. My mother used to make a simpler version, just bologna, sweet relish and miracle whip. You can do it in the food processor too. We never used ring bologna for this, we used the locally produced Kogel's sandwich bologna. I still buy ring bologna and boil it for dinner now and then with boiled potatoes and broccoli. Always top that with horseradish.

Spread the ham salad on bread and top with some lettuce and it's pretty good.
 
Good ole' Kogel's!

It's easy to get spoiled on their balony and their viennas too!

My mom used to make this stuff for her 3rd husband. I was in high school at the time, and thought it was utterly disgusting. I've never been a big balony fan - but if I did eat it, it'd have to be made from Kogel's. While you're at it, wash it down with a big glass of Verner's!

Oh, and here in Michigan - well, at least in Bay City, we say "warsh" instead of "wash" My husband makes fun of me sometimes, because if I get really upset or excited about something, my "Bay City accent" comes out full-force. It's heavily influenced by New England accents - so we say "yous", for example. The one that drives hubby crazy is what he dubbs "the wandering 't'". i.e: "I saw my cousint acrosst the street with yous guys hangin up the warsh."

-Sherri
 
I think that Balony salad is something that you either love it
or hate it.
I've never met anyone that just thought it was .....ok.

We've never substituted ham for the balony.
Our balony salad has always been made the way I described in
my first post at the top.
If you use ham....then you have ham salad and our ham salad
has never had the sweet pickle relish in it.

I really dont like to change recipes that have been passed down
to me from my Mom and G'mom. To me that would be taking the
charm away from what used to be everyday life. Its the memories connected with it I suppose.

Fried balony anyone ?
 
Mixergal.....

I understand what your saying about the way we say our words.
I love listening to the different accents around our country.
Alot of people think that here in NJ we ALL say Joisey.
Thats just not true.
Its the people from north jersey that have that accent.
I live in the southern end of new jersey.
We don't say "joisey" down here.
We can tell immediately if your from the northern part of our state by the way you talk.
For the most part, we jersey-ites do talk fast though.
I can usually tell you a 15 minute story in about 5 mins or less if I'm in a hurry. (hope you can hear that fast)
I have cousins that live down in Alabama and I can barely understand anything that they say. And they tell ME that I have an accent!
My brother lived in St Pete FL and I used to visit him at least once a year. I was always amazed that no one that I ever met in FL had an accent. It just always drove me crazy that everyone down south talks so slow.
The hardest accent for me to understand is the Aussie one.
I was in Sydney for 2 weeks and had a terrible time understanding them. They talk fast, run their words together and with their accent my head was spinning. Plus they use words that we use but they might mean something altogether different. And, don't stick yer thumb out trying to hitch a ride. Sticking yer thumb out is the equivilent of giving someone the middle finger here !
 
Butch...

hahahahahaha...

It's going to be a great day..dont cha think? thumbs up!

I thought it was going to rain today....after all, I did my little rain dance on the front porch last night like you said...

GUESS I SHOULD HAVE LEFT MY CLOTHES ON?
 
My Grandma Wilde would grind 1lb. of Spam with 1lb. of Velveeta, and then mix in enough Miracle Whip to make it spreadable. She would then spread it on halves of hamburger buns, and then put them under the broiler until they were browned on top, served with potato chips, pickles, and chocolate cake for dessert.
 
Time dosent matter, if your hungry for it....eat it !
You only live once and if this fried balony sammich is the
thing to kill ya at least you won't have died being hungry.
Which reminds me.......
My Mom used to make fried liver and onions when I was a kid.
Major YUCK !
I always had to eat whatever my parents put on my plate.
One day she made fried liver and onions and of course I ended
up with some on my plate...which I HAD to eat.
I was very verbal in expressing my UGH outloud.
Then of course I got the "you ought to be glad you have food to eat" from her and my Dad.
"Don't you know that people are starving over in Africa?" I'd hear from them.
I told them this one day, "Wrap this up and send it over there, I'm pretty sure I'll live another day if I don't eat this".
I think I spent the next 2 hrs in my room.

{{{sigh}}} - just a fleeting memory from my childhood. :)

ps....now I LOVE fried liver and onions !!
 
So, whattya sayin, Butch,

I should try balony salad sammiches now that I'm an adult? Nope, sorry - still think balony is YUK! Even if it's Koegels.

Oh, and I don't like Vernors either.

Guess I'm not a very loyal Michigander :)

I love Herman Miller - does that help?

-Sherri
 
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