If you can read this make me a Baloney sandwich!

Baloney sandwich is a delicious inexpensive sandwich from the Americas with bologna sausage in slices between bread, and other assortments like mayo, lettuce or ketchup.
Bologna pork sausage is very similar to the Italian large smoked sausage called mortadella made of beef, pork, and pork fat and seasoned with pepper and garlic form the city of Bologna.

Other countries have variations of bologna, like the German version called Fleischwurst or Extrawurst (assuring that foreigners will fail to pronounce it), or  the Lebanon bologna (or else called Pensilvania Dutch sausage) with extreme flavor.

Baloney is also a  metaphor for things we do to ourselves that make our lives tougher.
Apart from a very delicious ham, baloney is used in the English language to signify that someone or something is full of nonsense e.g he is full of baloney, or full of lies when its used in rhyme ‘phoney, baloney’. Is global warming baloney I ask myself all the time..

When bologna sammich was first introduced to the Greeks..

I must have been 10 years old when I watched the hot male housekeeper in the American 90s TV series ‘Who’s the Boss’ (Tony Danza) preparing the delicious baloney sandwiches for the kids.

I never forgot those moments and have been since wandering why bologna slices waited so long to become available in the Greek food market!

Well I need to say that you can find the finest  Italian mortadella di Bologna in the Greek market, which has a very close taste to the original bologna as i mentioned before..

I was recently googling for Danza and bologna sandwich (keywords search I find relevant) to find some info for my blog when I came across the most unexpected book recipes even for a baloney sandwich lover as myself.. It’s called Don't Fill Up on the Antipasto: Tony Danza's Father-Son Cookbook [Hardcover]. And guess what its written by Danza and son..OMG! What a revelation!

I also came across a very scary and rare large Danza baloney sausage!

To close up I need to communicate at least two recipes of bologna sandwich. I promise that they are delicious and will give you a new insight in the sammich preparation! So bon appetite!

MELINA’S BOLOGNA & PICKLE SANDWICH FILLING

2 Bologna slices (or else try a fine mortadella cold-cut from Bologna/Italy)

2 slices of white soft Bread

Salt & pepper

1 hard boiling egg

2 spoons of Picalilli sauce (for Greeks : Picalilli ΕΚΜΑ, Βασιλόπουλος)

FRIED BALONEY SANDWICH

2 slices white bread
2 Slices of bologna
Lettuce & tomato
Salt & pepper
Green pepper, sliced
1 red onion, sliced
1 sm. cucumber, sliced
spread a sauce of your choice, mayo, mustard, ketchup, or a cream cheese

Fry bologna slices for a few minutes and place on bread which has tomato, lettuce, green pepper slices, onion slices and cucumber slices. Salt and pepper to taste. Be sure to have plenty to drink around when eating this sandwich (a cold beer preferably).