I’ve often wondered about these items as well.
Sorry, but most of the foods I checked out are things that I like.
I recently watched an episode of **Samantha Brown Goes Somewhere *** on the Travel channel. She was in Bologna, Italy, learning to make tortellini, staying in a fab hotel, and chatting up locals. She visited a high-end “deli” and sampled a slice of authentic, Bolognese mortadella. “Tastes like baloney,” she said. “I feel like I’m in grade school.” (paraphrasing) I guess even in Italy a molded loaf of meat product is still a molded loaf of meat product.
*I absolutely love Samantha Brown. She is up for whatever the locale offers. If I could magically switch places with anyone, I’d be Samantha Brown. And she would no doubt find herself dismayed to be teaching reading in elementary school, and striving that no child be left behind.
For my whole life I wondered what Bologna had to do with Bologna, until I was in Bologna and had mortadella. And then I understood. American Bologna is the paler, weaker, inbred cousin of mortadella. Yummy in its own right, IMO, but not in the same class as mortadella. It’s like mortadella made by German immigrants in Wisconsin.
Mac & Cheese loaf? The fuck? Is it just, like, pressed mac & cheese, or, like, mixed with meat? I could eat the hell out of a mac & cheese sandwich…
Edit : on seeing the pics, ewwww…
Joe
I loved olive loaf when I was a kid in the late 80s/early 90s. Haven’t eaten any since then, but hypothetically, I could see myself going for an olive loaf sandwich the way my step-mom makes 'em:
bread
mayo
olive loaf x2
dill pickle
lettuce
mayo
bread
I am so very white.
Dude! My favorite lunch.
:air 5:
My mom loves olive and pickle loaf. She gets that multi-pack with four different mystery meats in it and makes something she calls “long sandwich” out of it. Split a loaf of Italian bread lengthwise, spread with mayo and mustard, add meat and sliced cheese, reassemble bread, cut up crosswise, eat if you dare. Makes me queasy just thinking about it.
Sounds like something out of a Stephen King novel.
My parents used to buy olive loaf when I was a kid. Jeeze, I haven’t had it in probably 30 years, but I have fond memories of it.
BTW - if you can find it, I highly recommend jalapeno loaf. I can’t hardly ever find it now, but it was pretty easy to get a hold of when I lived in Albuquerque.
I remember my grandparents buying it when I was a kid (I’m 24 now), but I wouldn’t touch the stuff. I don’t remember pickle loaf, though, just pimiento and olive. I’d actually be more apt to try it now than I ever would have then.
I haven’t seen it in a while, but I luvs me some “Old Fashioned” or “Dutch” Loaf., Which is essentially the same meat recipe as olive loaf, minus the olives. That old fashioned lunch meat recipe still has its roots here bei us with the GAF (German American Festival) Leberkäs (Veal Loaf)… which is really a misnomer, and further adds to the confusion, because their Leberkäs doesn’t seem to contain liver, or at least it doesn’t taste like it. It’s like a bologna sandwich in that way… it’s a honkin’ sweet slice of fresh, hot, Dutch loaf.
Never heard of mac and cheese loaf, but…today I had my first try of one of the ‘loafs’ that always used to be in our deli areas growing up, namely head cheese.
I didn’t know what it was then, but we never got it.
Tonight I got a sandwich from a Mexican deli; I was hoping for posole <my favorite soup> but no such luck. So I got a Cubana sandwich. I love cuban sandwiches; this was not that, as I found out. It had these lovely crispy, almost bacon-like slices of meat in it that I loved! Then my sweetie told me what those pieces were, which of course was head cheese.
Still good, damnit! Just not gonna go look up EXACTLY what it is, 'cause I’ve decided that I really don’t need* to know.
*want
The hot Veal Dutch Loaf served in thick and fresh, sweet slices still seems to have a following.
Pickle and olive loaf I can understand, they have a distinct flavor that contrasts with the meat. But why would you put bits of pasta inside bologna? It makes…no sense.
I’ve mentioned it before, but I bailed when grandma’s recipe started out, “Boil one pig’s head.” Six hours later she was done and I came home, but didn’t open the fridge for a week.
omg, I am going through the meats section and just want to barf. :p:p:p
At a quick glance, “Regrettable Food” seems to be more about making fun of the conventions and limitations of older food photography, than actually about the food.
Gross. And I eat braunschweiger.
Ooo, I used to LOVE Eckrich Macaroni & Cheese Loaf. They stopped making it a few years ago, though. I also enjoyed Pickle Loaf and Olive Loaf. I haven’t had any of it for years, but I grew up having it for lunches, on occasion. It sounds good. I had forgotten about it, and I may have to buy some Olive Loaf soon.