Braunschweiger, mmmmm...yummy food memories

[johntheplinker]

All I can think of: Left Anterior Descending

that, and Fried Bologna Sandwiches!

Food of the gods, after bacon of course.

Oh my...I think I know what's for lunch today. Along with Kraft Mac & Cheese.

 

[patience0830]

I too grew up on braunshweiger. Sammitches with tomatoe and miracle whip and occasionally lettuce. My favorite lunch with grandpa food was Campbells tomatoe soup with a shot of barbeque soace in it and little smokies sandwiches on whatever bread we had. Miss him.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Now I have to eat oatmeal . . . for a week.

 

[SmileDocHill]

Never partook, nor even heard of the stuff. I'll be getting some today!
My Family traditional food that I miss is Bagna Cauda. About equal parts tuns, anchovies, butter and garlic. It is a fondue you dip cabbage, Italian bread, celery, bell peppers.... in like edible spoons to eat it.
My wife is allergic to 2 and can't stand a third ingredient so I haven't had any for a LONG time. New Years and special family events are simply not the same.

Oops, forgot the main reason I wanted to make a post:
Are their brands of Braunschweiger that are better? To avoid?

 

[Expat]

We either ate baloney or we would buy some cans of vienna (vi-eeny) sausage and potted meat with saltines.

 

[hoosierdaddy1976]

We either ate baloney or we would buy some cans of vienna (vi-eeny) sausage and potted meat with saltines.

The canned stuff was duck blind food. You could throw a bunch in the bottom of your bag at the beginning of the season and grab it when needed

 

[GLOCKMAN23C]

Never partook, nor even heard of the stuff. I'll be getting some today!
My Family traditional food that I miss is Bagna Cauda. About equal parts tuns, anchovies, butter and garlic. It is a fondue you dip cabbage, Italian bread, celery, bell peppers.... in like edible spoons to eat it.
My wife is allergic to 2 and can't stand a third ingredient so I haven't had any for a LONG time. New Years and special family events are simply not the same.

Oops, forgot the main reason I wanted to make a post:
Are their brands of Braunschweiger that are better? To avoid?

I find the cheaper brands usually have better flavor. Emge is probably the best/most consistent, the Aldi brand has been very good, too.

 

[BE Mike]

Never partook, nor even heard of the stuff. I'll be getting some today!
My Family traditional food that I miss is Bagna Cauda. About equal parts tuns, anchovies, butter and garlic. It is a fondue you dip cabbage, Italian bread, celery, bell peppers.... in like edible spoons to eat it.
My wife is allergic to 2 and can't stand a third ingredient so I haven't had any for a LONG time. New Years and special family events are simply not the same.

Oops, forgot the main reason I wanted to make a post:
Are their brands of Braunschweiger that are better? To avoid?

Yep, don't get the low fat stuff. I'd buy Braunschweiger more often, but the packages are so big and I'm the only one to eat it all.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I find the cheaper brands usually have better flavor. Emge is probably the best/most consistent, the Aldi brand has been very good, too.

All Kroger had yesterday was John Morrell's. Tasted good to me for lunch today on roasted veggie crackers. I'd been thinking about getting some for awhile and this thread pushed me over the edge.

 

[BE Mike]

The reason we know about these foods is because our parents grew of age during the depression. This is known as depression food. This what they had to eat. Nothing on a carcass was wasted, hence the lower cuts and mixes. I love me some fried spam on occasion.

When I lived with my grandma, she was quite poor, but had lived on a farm. She would go to the butcher shop and get beef tongue and pork brains because it was cheap. Nothing on a carcass is wasted today, they just hide it in hot dogs, bologna, vienna sausages, et. al. Back in the day grandma just put it out there where everyone could see. People are so distant from their food sources today and so picky.

 

[Trigger Time]

I eat it with a fork. Never liked it on bread

 

[Rookie]

I read this thread this morning at work, craved it all day, got off work, and went and bought some. I prefer it on saltine crackers with a slice of colby jack.

 

[Roadie]

I haven't had braunschweiger since my dad died in 79'. I've been tempted to buy it a few times and try to relive those days, might pick some up tomorrow at Kroger. My main food related memory from my early days, though, was chipped beef gravy over toast, yeah, **** on a shingle. If we were lucky, we'd have it over biscuits! Mom was a gravy master, and when I was really young, we had some sort of gravy with just about every meal. A few years before mom died, I asked if she'd make chipped beef gravy for Sunday dinner sometime, and she said she didn't really want to, because that's what she cooked when money was tight, and it wasn't that good anyway. Personally, I loved the stuff, and went years without it till I found a recipe online that was similar to what mom made.

SoS is a great food memory for me as well. My dad was in WWII and had to take his turn as a cook on occasion. SoS, Biscuits and Gravy, and Salmon Patties were pretty much all he could cook well.
Memories

 

[two70]

Does anyone know where to find some good pickled bologna in the Indy area. When I was a kid I spent part of my summers digging roots(ginseng, yellow root, mayapple, etc.) with my grandfather and we would usually have a hunk of pickled bologna before of after leaving the woods but I can't seem to find it on the south side any more.

 

[Mark-DuCo]

Does anyone know where to find some good pickled bologna in the Indy area. When I was a kid I spent part of my summers digging roots(ginseng, yellow root, mayapple, etc.) with my grandfather and we would usually have a hunk of pickled bologna before of after leaving the woods but I can't seem to find it on the south side any more.

Rural King has pickled sausages and pickled turkey gizzards too which are delicious. And I had cubed spam and sauerkraut once a week in college... my roommates loved me lol.

 

[BE Mike]

SoS is a great food memory for me as well. My dad was in WWII and had to take his turn as a cook on occasion. SoS, Biscuits and Gravy, and Salmon Patties were pretty much all he could cook well.
Memories

Curses! Now I'll have a hankerin' for SOS until I'm satisfied.

 

[Trigger Time]

Does anyone know where to find some good pickled bologna in the Indy area. When I was a kid I spent part of my summers digging roots(ginseng, yellow root, mayapple, etc.) with my grandfather and we would usually have a hunk of pickled bologna before of after leaving the woods but I can't seem to find it on the south side any more.

id call the German deli

 

[littletommy]

Curses! Now I'll have a hankerin' for SOS until I'm satisfied.

Just be sure you rinse it really good before cooking it, I neglected to do so on my first batch and it was too salty to eat! My wife was amazed that I actually said something was too salty, she'd never heard that from me before.

 

[littletommy]

Does anyone know where to find some good pickled bologna in the Indy area. When I was a kid I spent part of my summers digging roots(ginseng, yellow root, mayapple, etc.) with my grandfather and we would usually have a hunk of pickled bologna before of after leaving the woods but I can't seem to find it on the south side any more.

Down here in the southern part of the state, Kroger has Fishers brand, but they are a Louisville company, don't know what their distribution is like. Fisher makes some darn fine bacon, too.

 

[hopper68]

I have a sudden yearning for pickled herring brought on by all this talk of food we used to eat.

On a related note, got a coworker looking for a good source of smelt.