Holiday Tube Meats

Which is better, Summer Sausage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_sausage

or

Lebanon Bologna? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon_bologna

I grew up with the latter, but love me some Hickory Farms SS.

(btw, this beats the apple thread by at least 6")

Summer sausage, but only the real stuff made by the Mennonites in southern Ontario. It's black, like a rock and amazingly good.

Summer sausage is meant to be eaten in little bites, on a toothpick, dipped in mustard. Lebanon bolgna (not the sweet variety, thankyouverymuch) is meant to be eaten on a sandwich with lettuce and tomato.

Two very different tubed meat products - both have their place.

And we've got some tube meat snobs in the house....

My favorite trashy sandwich. Either of those sliced in chunks with mayo on white bread. Haven't had one of those for years (and my cholesterol levels thank me)

Fried bologna.

/thread.

Margie

Sorry, Kentucky Girl, phallic meats made by repressed religious folk are the bestest.

Duh, Kentucky practically invented repressed religious folk. That's why we get bologna AND incest.

Margie

I loves both summer sausage and Lebanon bologna. Of the two, the Lebanon bologna wins because generally it's less greasy and I like the 'bite'.

Pepperidge Farms is the greasiest summer sausage by far.

I tried some Dragon Sausage while in Serbia a few years ago. It's named after how your mouth feels after eating it rather than the meat it contains....

Summer sausage, preferably made from venison. Gives everyone that I know gas, but if everyone has some, it's all good.

mistanfo wrote: Summer sausage, preferably made from venison. Gives everyone that I know gas, but if everyone has some, it's all good.

+1 Gotta go hit up my deer hunting buddy for some this weekend now...

A good summer sausage is better than most Lebanon Balogna, but most Lebanon Balogna is better than most Summer Sausage.

Honestly, there are no losers in this battle.

jg

Now I'm gonna have to make a trip to Amish country to get me some real summer sausage. Damn you all. The stuff in the store can be squished when you squeeze it, that's not summer sausage.

Fried bologna rocks as a shaped sandwich meat year-round, but summer sausage is IT for holiday snacking tube meat. Little smokies in barbeque sauce are in a comfortable second place in that category.

Keith wrote: Summer sausage, but only the real stuff made by the Mennonites in southern Ontario. It's black, like a rock and amazingly good.

Every Amish girl dreams of two Mennonite...

I was so trying not to go there.

Note to self- Call brother to see if there are any Mennonites near his house for next trip up... Unfortunately, me thinks not in far south western ON. Thankfully, there are plenty of good butchers to get my peameal on.

I live minutes from Lebanon, ground-zero for Amish bologna. It makes putting up with the crappy winter weather almost worth it.

Holiday meats aside (and I'm voting on "cut chunks dipped in extremely spicy mustard), the ultimate tubular meat is actually the Big Smokie sausage sandwich at Carlisle. Allowed to cook on a greasy, open air grill with onions and peppers, it's smell wafting over the show field, is nothing short of heaven if you have testosterone.

Mass produced Pepperidge Farm type packaged bologna is to consumable meats what a Fiero 2M4 is to a Ferrari 308: sorta similiar in concept, but very different in execution.

Marjorie Suddard wrote: Fried bologna. /thread. Margie

+1

I love fried bologna, but I don't think I've ever had lebanon bologna. I also love summer sausage, but for me, neither compares to some lil' smokies fried up with a dash of cayenne and chili powder.

Marjorie Suddard wrote: Duh, Kentucky practically invented repressed religious folk. That's why we get bologna AND incest. Margie

Thanks, I've never gotten egg sandwhich in my nose before

Marjorie Suddard wrote: Duh, Kentucky practically invented repressed religious folk. That's why we get bologna AND incest. Margie

Coffee thru nose. Damn.

http://www.foodsubs.com/MeatcureCC.html

Some how I knew Kentucky would come in to this

Marjorie Suddard wrote: Duh, Kentucky practically invented repressed religious folk. That's why we get bologna AND incest. Margie

Hey, play nice or I'll report you to whomever is in charge around here!

....oh, wait a minute...............