Ma Ma Ma My Bologna!

[Lisa Denton]

Mid-Sunday morning for me here in the San Francisco Bay Area, where a genuine North American wild baloney herd is protected within the confines of Golden Gate Park, only four city blocks away from me. When the wind blows north by northwest I get their scent right through the windows of my flat. I thank God for putting me on the same planet as wild baloney.

Perdita

(I think this is my most very favourite thread ever.)

Oh yea, don't you just love the scent, they kinda smell like a sammich don't they? I am glad to hear that you all in california have a place where you can take the kids and let them pet a real live baloney, up close and personal. Next time you are there tell the park department to put a fench around the swingsets so the baloneys can't get in there. When they try to get on the swingsets they usually break the whole thing, but they look really cute on the merry-go-rounds. Or at least this has been documented by many baloney experts studying them in other non-native habitats like parks and stuff. Gosh, you only have to walk four blocks and you get to have a real live baloney humpin your leg, you probably get wet when they do that don't ya? Its o.k., you can tell me and I won't tell nobody.
See ya mum.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

... we made bologna by mating cows with deer...

This is the tall tale about wild baloney, told mostly by Texicans.

(Did you know that some of the tail grows to over six foot in Texas?)

In truth, Baloney is a natural development which occurred when nutritious luncheon meats strayed and were accidentally mated with robust pemmicans. So while it IS true that wild baloney is part beef & beef byproduct, it is also part deer, moose, bear, prairie chicken, owl, gopher, wolverine and woodpussy* — whatever the manufacturing aboriginals had to hand around camp at the time they pounded it together.

While much of the traditional ingredients seldom make it into the stock anymore, much of the taste is irretrievably intertwined with the historical antecedents of baloney.

* Woodpussy = Colonial name for skunk.

 

[Guest]

What's bologna (apart from a very average Seria A kevball team)?

I'm serious, I've not heard of anything called bologna before. Does it have any relation to bolognese? Is it the American term for mince?

Confused,

The Earl

Earl -

I'm sorry. I had too much rum last evening to answer you properly!

Bologna is a luncheon meat, sort of. Made up of compressed by-products of odds and ends. I guess. Here's a link to a company that produces (er, processes) the wild bologna.

Kraft Foods

It should have the information you seek.



P.S. And be careful - don't go outside after dark. That's when the wild baloney usually attack.

 

[Lisa Denton]

This is the tall tale about wild baloney, told mostly by Texicans.

(Did you know that some of the tail grows to over six foot in Texas?)

In truth, Baloney is a natural development which occurred when nutritious luncheon meats strayed and were accidentally mated with robust pemmicans. So while it IS true that wild baloney is part beef & beef byproduct, it is also part deer, moose, bear, prairie chicken, owl, gopher, wolverine and woodpussy* — whatever the manufacturing aboriginals had to hand around camp at the time they pounded it together.

While much of the traditional ingredients seldom make it into the stock anymore, much of the taste is irretrievably intertwined with the historical antecedents of baloney.

* Woodpussy = Colonial name for skunk.

Hi VB, many tails grow big in texas, thats how come we wear boots, he, he.

I don't know what a robust pemmican is, maybe a big pelican?

Anywho, you got your recipes mixed up, the

part beef & beef byproduct, it is also part deer, moose, bear, prairie chicken, owl, gopher, wolverine and woodpussy

is actually a recipe for the start of Tex-Mex chili, before we start adding the spices, not baloney.

I was liking the woodpussy thingie till you said it was the colonial name for skunk, I didn't know that, but then we don't talk much colonial here, mostly just texan language. I think if you called a texan a colonial there would probably be a big fight. Somebody might even say "get a rope."

Anywho I think I hear a wild baloney mooo-ing in my backyard, I 'm gonna get my gun and go check it out. Maybe I'll have baloney and eggs, a traditional texas breakfast, today.