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> artisanal bologna Two words I never thought I'd see next to each other. Growing up we ate the Oscar Meyer product. Not great, but when you're 10 years old,
by chiph 4y ago
> artisanal bologna
Two words I never thought I'd see next to each other.
Growing up we ate the Oscar Meyer product. Not great, but when you're 10 years old, it's fine. But they've got a point - bologna for adult tastes just doesn't exist, and someone should give it a whirl.
- germinalphrase 4y agoThey call it mortadella, and it features pistachios.
- sph 4y agoWhat Americans call bologna, it isn't what Italians call bologna or mortadella. Whatever the hell is this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bologna_sausage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bologna_sausage vs the real deal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortadella https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortadella But to be honest I always thought mortadella was overrated. I'm more of a salame kind of guy.
- Morgawr 4y ago>it isn't what Italians call bologna Nitpicking, but Italians don't call it Bologna anyway. In Italy Bologna is just one very specific thing: a city (where I'm from :))
- peoplefromibiza 4y agospecifically, traditionally mortadella from Bologna is without pistaches, I prefer the variant we have in central Italy (the one from Rome), that always contains them. Original mortadella was born in Latium, Bologna made it popular.
- thefz 4y agoYeah, and we have zero products called "Bologna" nor the awful "baloney". That food looks more like salame tipo Praga.
- sph 4y agoI'm from Piedmont, and I've heard it called bologna a couple times, though I know mortadella is the common name.
- ska 4y agoI've read that bologna was invented as a knock off mortadella. If true, it makes sense that there isn't really "artisanal" bologna.
- peoplefromibiza 4y ago> honest I always thought mortadella was overrated > I'm more of a salame kind of guy. two times wrong: - mortadella is delicious, if you don't like it, fine, you're the rounding error, but nobody is over selling it, people just love it because what's not to love about it? - salame is not an alternative to mortadella, it's a completely different product (mortadella is cooked, salame is air-dried), in the same way a steak is not an alternative to bresaola (same animal, different process).
- soledades 4y agoum, they're both food, are they not? and yeah salame definitely better.
- peoplefromibiza 4y ago> um, they're both food, are they not? ice cream and broccoli are both food too... > and yeah salame definitely better. according to your taste maybe, and that's completely fine but AFAIK people love them both.
- tomjakubowski 4y agoGo to a sandwich shop that has them both, and you'll probably find two sandwiches on the menu that are identical up to substituting salami and mortadella. I would be very surprised to find a menu anywhere, except for maybe in some high modernist bullshit cuisine, that substitutes ice cream and broccoli.
- peoplefromibiza 4y agoEver been to Italy, where nortadella is from? I can assure you it is the contrary. Mortadella is also more popular because it is perceived as lighter and with a smoother flavour.
- tomjakubowski 4y agomore specifically they're both what we'd call "lunch meats" in the US
- JetAlone 4y agoThe pictured mortadella with olives looks interesting. I'd wanna try that.
- casta 4y agoThose are pistachios, not olives.
- tartoran 4y agoSome have olives as well, I tried it myself years ago. Mortadella is delicious though in the US there are two versions for sale. I forgot which, is the one that is a bit too dry and not to my taste. In my 40s now I stay away from processed meats as much as I can.
- richiebful1 4y agoI see this marketed all the time as olive loaf here in Appalachia. There's a lot of Italian influence here in the coal fields, but most of the Italian product names have died off.
- JetAlone 4y agoThe second image on the page depicts mortadela with pistachios. But I am talking about the fourth image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Mortadela_com_azeitonas.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Mortadel... Mortadela_com_azeitonas.jpg Auto translate tells me that "azeitonas" [Portuguese (Brazil) detected] translates to "olives" in english.
- Natsu 4y agoYes, that's the correct translation of azeitonas.
- mrguyorama 4y agoThat's because what is sold in America as bologna is mostly an American product and not actually descended from Italy. Like many things in the US, it was produced and sold by and for immigrants. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZaOK0Cj3ug https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZaOK0Cj3ug
- Morgawr 4y ago> and it features pistachios. Doesn't have to. Although they are common.
- p1necone 4y agoThere's also the slavic "doctors sausage"[1], which ideally has much less fillers in it than American Bologna, but is very similar in concept. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor%27s_sausage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor%27s_sausage
- JetAlone 4y agoI remember watching a youtube video on Doctor Sausage. Next time I meet an older/elderly Eastern European who lived in the Soviet Union I should ask them how they remember it. EDIT: here it is, this is the video I saw, includes one interview with a babushka: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcxQBkdughc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcxQBkdughc
- nibbleshifter 4y agoI still see doctors sausage on sale in most of the Eastern European shops here, I'm told the recipe/process hasn't changed at all.
- mrguyorama 4y agoThe recipe was carved into law a few different times.
- buildsjets 4y agoThey also call it Lebanon Bologna, and it's pretty easy to make from scratch at home. Common in Amish areas of the USA. https://www.myfermentation.com/meat-and-fish/Lebanon-bologna-recipe-zmrz19wzwoo/ https://www.myfermentation.com/meat-and-fish/Lebanon-bologna...
- MiddleEndian 4y agoI just realized I've never had bologna as an adult. Curious to try a bologna sandwich now.
- chasd00 4y agoPan fry it and put it between white bread with pickle slices and a little mayo + salt/pepper
- tartoran 4y agoDelicios but really unhealthy in my oppinion
- MiddleEndian 4y agoDon't worry I'm not expecting this to be healthy or become a staple of my diet lol
- mrguyorama 4y agoAbout every five years or so I feel like I don't remember why I don't eat bologna so I buy a pound and eat baloney sandwiches for a week (because when I eat sandwiches I do the sameish sandwich all week). After about three days I go to the bathroom and remember why I don't eat bologna sandwiches regularly. It's very fatty and greasy.
- skyyler 4y agoIf health is the only reason you eat food I feel really bad for you.
- soledades 4y agooff topic
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