What does your family call sliced lunch meat?

Sliced lunch meat goes by several names.

Cold Cuts
Deli meat
Lunch meat
Sandwich meat
Sliced Meat

It can be simple like sliced ham or roast beef. Or more exotic like liverwurst, salami, or pickle loaf. There’s at least 10 varieties of sandwich meat at the grocery store.

What does your family call this heavily salted delight? :wink:

What region of the country are you from?

I didn’t vote because we use all of them except ‘sandwich meat’. Although I think cold cuts and deli meat are the ones we use the most.

My grandparents called it lunch meat. I think most Southerners do too? The poll will confirm or reject this idea

My parents say Cold Cuts. I think that got started when we lived in Massachusetts for seven years.

My wife and I also say Cold Cuts. I voted cold cuts.

We’re from the South.

Cold cuts.

Syracuse NY .

I call it by whatever thing it’s made from, i.e., sliced ham, sliced chicken, bologna, etc.

Cold cuts. You go to the deli to get cold cuts.

Albany NY.

The really thinly sliced stuff (e.g. Buddig) my family used to call “washcloths.”

You’re right, that should have been a poll option. I didn’t think of it when I typed the poll choices.

Other - can be used for this option.

Cold Cuts - this is what I call it and know it as
Deli meat - This is a reasonable alternative, but also refers to the meats before slicing.
Lunch meat - This is some cheap baloney like substitute. Also called lunchen meat
Sandwich meat - see the above
Sliced Meat - undefined, could be a carved dinner meat, or Deli slices.

Cold cuts all the way for me.

Lunch meat – Southerner

My Wife and I rarely do sandwiches. But, I would say I’m going to get some deli turkey (or whatever meat) for sandwiches if we where to do so.

cold cuts, midwest.

For us, lunch meat was whatever meat you ate at lunch. Might be cold cuts, might be a chunk of chicken or sausage or burger patty. Or venison.

Cold cuts. New York City.

I can’t recall using any of the others. “Lunch meat” suggests something like balogna or olive loaf, not items like roast beef or salami.

Sandwich meat.

Would “sandwich meat” also include something like ham salad or chicken salad?

I usually say “deli meat” if I’m talking about the flesh of a specific animal - roast beef, turkey, ham and so on. Ground up and ‘loafed meats’ like bologna, pickle and pimento or olive loaf are “lunch meat”

I am the same. I can’t think of a circumstance where I would refer to all those things by some collective expression.

I grew up in Oregon in the 50’s and 60’s, and we always called it lunch meat. That usually referred to relatively common cheap stuff like bologna or ham loaf or something. We never got commercially sliced real meat like turkey, ham or roast beef, my mother just cooked it and sliced it (not thinly) herself if there was enough left over for sandwiches. Side note: for many of those years my father worked in the office of a meat-packing plant, so we were never short of real meat in the house.

Lunch meat.

From Michigan.

It depends on what it is.

“Cold cuts” is something like bologna, but roast beef / ham / turkey / pastrami is “sliced meat.”

Lunch meat in aggregate, although in the (western PA) household where I grew up we usually had more than one variety on hand, called them by their proper names.

Lebanon Bologna!

Chipped Ham!

Pickle and Pimento Loaf!

Braunschweiger (actually never much cared for that one)!

Mostly not readily available in my current location, and I’m supposed to stay away from cured meats anyway. Dang.