# What do you like on your bologna sandwiches? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [July 20, 2025, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-on-your-bologna-sandwiches/1021115 "2025-07-20T16:04:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![MacDoc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/macdoc/32/18696_2.png) [@MacDoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacDoc)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-on-your-bologna-sandwiches/1021115/41 "2025-07-21T01:14:43Z")
If forced to consume …what he said…mayo or good mustard ( something infrequent in Australia for reasons unknown. \_) Had enough of fried baloney as a kid. ( we were relatively poor ) ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-on-your-bologna-sandwiches/1021115/42 "2025-07-21T01:20:06Z")
> [@MacDoc](#): > > Had enough of fried baloney as a kid. ( we were relatively poor ) At least you could afford to fry your bologna. I had to wait until the sun came out and used a magnifying glass. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-on-your-bologna-sandwiches/1021115/43 "2025-07-21T01:22:41Z")
You had a magnifying glass? What were you the wealthy upper crust? I had to wait til Mother cranked up the VW bug. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-on-your-bologna-sandwiches/1021115/44 "2025-07-21T01:24:34Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > You had a magnifying glass? What were you the wealthy upper crust? > > I had to wait til Mother cranked up the VW bug. - At least your bugs were made by VW. We had Ford cockroaches. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-on-your-bologna-sandwiches/1021115/45 "2025-07-21T01:25:43Z")
Makes Found-On-Road-Dead have real meaning. 😊 ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-on-your-bologna-sandwiches/1021115/46 "2025-07-21T01:25:44Z")
> [@rickp](#): > > Mayo (Best Foods is the best), Grey Poupon mustard, slice of tomato, dill pickle relish, slice of Swiss cheese, 1 lettuce leaf, all on sourdough bread. This is not the sandwich I had as a kid, but it’s the sandwich I have now. Quite different ingredients than my sandwich of choice involving bologna (do try it combined with ham and salami!) but I go along with the general creativity and the use of Dijon mustard. Speaking of which, as a public service, I wish to announce the result of my A-B taste test of Grey Poupon vs. the other popular Dijon, Maille. They’re very similar but Grey Poupon is slightly more subtle and Maille a bit more tangy. If you imagine Grey Poupon with a tiny bit of horseradish, that’s Maille. I used to prefer Grey Poupon, but since a common use of Dijon around here is with hot roast beef sandwiches, where the subtle tangy sense of horseradish is desirable, and the difference is subtle anyway, I’ve settled on Maille. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-on-your-bologna-sandwiches/1021115/47 "2025-07-21T01:26:57Z")
One never expects The Four Yorkshiremen. ---
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I like Miracle Whip and a slice of cheese. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-on-your-bologna-sandwiches/1021115/49 "2025-07-21T01:28:17Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > One never expects The Four Yorkshiremen.- You had four? We only had one and we had to share him with the whole neighborhood. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-on-your-bologna-sandwiches/1021115/50 "2025-07-21T03:50:42Z")
Kraft sandwich spread on whole wheat. Alternating slices of bologna with layers of bagged chopped salad and slices of tomato. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-on-your-bologna-sandwiches/1021115/51 "2025-07-21T04:14:30Z")
Don’t particularly care for them, but growing up it was mustard is preferred with mayo as a backup. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-on-your-bologna-sandwiches/1021115/52 "2025-07-21T04:30:51Z")
Mustard. But the key thing is the bologna must be fried. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-on-your-bologna-sandwiches/1021115/53 "2025-07-21T10:59:54Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > Yellow mustard, American cheese, white bread. Anything fancier or better quality is almost missing the point. Exactly what I ate for lunch literally every school day from 7th to 10th grade. And I’m not one of those folks who say literally without meaning _literally_. mmm ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-on-your-bologna-sandwiches/1021115/54 "2025-07-21T11:15:35Z")
My doctor advised me eons ago to avoid things like bologna, so I haven’t had a bologna sandwich in ages. But if I was still eating them I’d eat them the way I did as a kid – plain. Slices of bologna on bread. No butter. No mayo. Nothing. Way back when I was in Boy Scouts several of us packed bologna sandwiches for a camping trip – easy meal with no prep time. Only our scoutmaster insisted that our meals had to be cooked over a campfire. So we disassembled our sandwiches and fried the bologna. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-on-your-bologna-sandwiches/1021115/55 "2025-07-21T11:36:57Z")
I remember the jingle _almost_ the same way. I think the kids sang: > My **boloney** has a first name, it’s O-S-C-A-R. > My **boloney** has a second name, it’s M-A-Y-E-R. > Oh, I love to eat it every day, > and if you ask me why I’ll saaaaaay > ‘cause Oscar Mayer has a way with B-O-L-O-G-N-A’. And yes, the pronunciation at the start doesn’t match the spelling at the end. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2025, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-on-your-bologna-sandwiches/1021115/56 "2025-07-21T11:55:01Z")
That is arguably the “correct”/more common spelling. Doesn’t change how it is pronounced. > [@LSLGuy](#): > > screw that “Bologna” affectation You have just insulted a million people 🙂 I have a friend from there (who is strongly opinionated about Italian food and probably thinks American “bologna” is an abomination) ---
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The Italian name of the Italian city and the Americanized name of the American-made cheap-ass meatscraps product are two different things, despite their common origin. Thinking otherwise is … well … baloney. 🙂 ---
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> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > And I’m not one of those folks who say literally without meaning _literally_. - So you literally use literally literally. ---
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> [@Duckster](#): > > Sometimes with a slice of real cheddar. I think I’ll have to agree with Drew of Down right delicious to use “shitty cheese” I had to replay that a couple times to get it but shitty cheese (American cheese) it is! > [@madmonk28](#): > > I like Lebanon bologna That use to be a staple in my house growing up, sliced off a chub, a favorite of my folks from Philly. Mmm getting a hankering for some processed meat y’all. ---
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I think the last time I ate bologna was over 20 years ago when my son was a toddler. He’d be given a slice of it wrapped around a cheese stick we called “baloney roll-up” and he’d say so cute “bawoney woah-up”. I may have occasionally made a sandwich of it with mayo on one side and mustard on the other. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-on-your-bologna-sandwiches/1021115.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-on-your-bologna-sandwiches/1021115.md?page=4)