Authentic Bologna

Barriehie

Barriehie

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TastyReuben Hi there! You've posted where you visit Amish stores so do you, I can't remember, ever buy authentic Bologna? I'm thinking like a chub???

Never mind thank you. Specific search setting yielded an answer! 🙏
 
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Barriehie said:
I'll be working on a garlic version... 😉
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That’s probably the most popular one around here.
 
Morning Glory said:
Authentic is a problematic term to use when it comes to food.

I understand that bologna is an US version of mortadella. The most interesting thing I learned about it is that it may contain myrtle seeds.
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I found a recipe going back to the 16th century so I'll call that "authentic". This is assuming, not having seen the original documents, the author isn't a sham. The Catholic Church would have the "real" recipe since that was the entity governing such things at the time. 🤞
 
Barriehie said:
Thank you! I don't think mine will be as "homogenized". More texture, chunks, visible fat and garlic. 🤤 Probably have lots of pepper too... 🤫
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That’d be the trail bologna, then. It’s much coarser. One of the delis I like also has both “German bologna” and “Old World German bologna,” and I believe I have both in my freezer, and they’re varying degrees of coarseness.
 
Barriehie said:
I found a recipe going back to the 16th century so I'll call that "authentic". This is assuming, not having seen the original documents, the author isn't a sham. The Catholic Church would have the "real" recipe since that was the entity governing such things at the time. 🤞
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All the info I can find suggests it is of an American German origin. Bologna is an Italian city and the nearest sausage you will find to bologna there is mortadella on which bologna is based. Myrtle seeds seem to be a key ingredient...

So where did you find this 16th century recipe?
 
badjak said:
Is bologna the same as polony?
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It’s interesting you ask that, because Wikipedia talks about that, and while they seem to be very much related, each culture that has a thing called polony may have changed it over time, so this polony here is not the same as that polony there, and neither are like bologna, which again gets back to the whole issue with “authentic” and why, IMO anyway, it’s a completely useless word that should be struck from the vocabularies of all languages around the world, at least as it relates to food.

I like to think that way back under the Old Gods*, they were all sitting up there wherever they were, and one day Zeus said, “I’m feeling generous…let’s give the mortals this wonderful item and I’ll call it bologna.”

Isis said, “Oh right, because it comes from that city in Italy, right?”

“Yes…but no, not really. It’ll be fun, trust me,” Zeus replied.

“Give me a moment,” Loki interjected, “I’ll really get the party started!”

He waved his hands slightly, the horns of his helmet glowed, and…POOF!…suddenly there existed bologna in Germany, and in the New World (which had yet to be discovered, of course, but it was there nonetheless), and all over Europe and even into the British Isles.

“So what? You’ve just put bologna all over the place, big deal. You’re slipping with your japes, I think!” chortled Brigid, “God of Mischief, indeed!”

“Just wait…,” cautioned Loki.

Meanwhile, down on Earth:

“Hail, good tavern keeper?! What have ye for a hungry and weary traveler upon which to sup?!”

“Why, it’s your lucky day, good wanderer! Straight from the butcher’s just this morn…a fresh chub of bologna!”

<Proudly displays his delicacy>

“What ho?! Liar! Cheat! Why, that’s too fine a grind to be bologna! Why everyone knows bologna comes in a coarse grind! I’ll have you before the Hospitality Guild for this deceit!”

“Stay thy hand, ruffian! Let us consult with our newly-arrived Scotsman! He’ll back me up, surely! What say you, Ian?!”

“Ach! That be polony as sure as the heather covers my beautiful homeland!”

“See! I told you! Wait…did you just say ‘polony?!’”

“Certainly! That there is polony!”

“Baloney! That’s bologna, I say!”

<The bell over the door rings as in walks a visitor from New Zealand>

“Oi, did someone say polony?! I love those little cocktail weenies!”

<The tavern descends into murderous chaos. Meanwhile, back on Mount Heaven…>

“You were saying, Brigid?” smirked Loki.

“I yield to your supreme sense of jest. You are indeed the Wizard of Games!”

“Just wait until you see what I have planned for this thing they’re calling pizza.”

“No hints?”

“Two words…ham and pineapple.”

:laugh:







*The Old Gods are from all cultures, just known by different names, just to further confuse us lessers.
 
TastyReuben said:
It’s interesting you ask that, because Wikipedia talks about that, and while they seem to be very much related, each culture that has a thing called polony may have changed it over time, so this polony here is not the same as that polony there, and neither are like bologna, which again gets back to the whole issue with “authentic” and why, IMO anyway, it’s a completely useless word that should be struck from the vocabularies of all languages around the world, at least as it relates to food.

I like to think that way back under the Old Gods*, they were all sitting up there wherever they were, and one day Zeus said, “I’m feeling generous…let’s give the mortals this wonderful item and I’ll call it bologna.”

Isis said, “Oh right, because it comes from that city in Italy, right?”

“Yes…but no, not really. It’ll be fun, trust me,” Zeus replied.

“Give me a moment,” Loki interjected, “I’ll really get the party started!”

He waved his hands slightly, the horns of his helmet glowed, and…POOF!…suddenly there existed bologna in Germany, and in the New World (which had yet to be discovered, of course, but it was there nonetheless), and all over Europe and even into the British Isles.

“So what? You’ve just put bologna all over the place, big deal. You’re slipping with your japes, I think!” chortled Brigid, “God of Mischief, indeed!”

“Just wait…,” cautioned Loki.

Meanwhile, down on Earth:

“Hail, good tavern keeper?! What have ye for a hungry and weary traveler upon which to sup?!”

“Why, it’s your lucky day, good wanderer! Straight from the butcher’s just this morn…a fresh chub of bologna!”

<Proudly displays his delicacy>

“What ho?! Liar! Cheat! Why, that’s too fine a grind to be bologna! Why everyone knows bologna comes in a coarse grind! I’ll have you before the Hospitality Guild for this deceit!”

“Stay thy hand, ruffian! Let us consult with our newly-arrived Scotsman! He’ll back me up, surely! What say you, Ian?!”

“Ach! That be polony as sure as the heather covers my beautiful homeland!”

“See! I told you! Wait…did you just say ‘polony?!’”

“Certainly! That there is polony!”

“Baloney! That’s bologna, I say!”

<The bell over the door rings as in walks a visitor from New Zealand>

“Oi, did someone say polony?! I love those little cocktail weenies!”

<The tavern descends into murderous chaos. Meanwhile, back on Mount Heaven…>

“You were saying, Brigid?” smirked Loki.

“I yield to your supreme sense of jest. You are indeed the Wizard of Games!”

“Just wait until you see what I have planned for this thing they’re calling pizza.”

“No hints?”

“Two words…ham and pineapple.”

:laugh:







*The Old Gods are from all cultures, just known by different names, just to further confuse us lessers.
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Brilliant!
 
Lebanon "Sweet" Bologna is generally thought an invention of the Pennsylvania Dutch.
it is distinctly different than other bologna of the mortadella style
Sweet Bologna
 
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