Baloney !!

I thought I'd take a minute and write down a memory from when I was a little girl.   Our family ate quite a bit of baloney.  I LOVED baloney.  I haven't had baloney in years !!

Whenever we would go for a long car ride, we would stop and buy a loaf of bread, a package of baloney (cut and wrapped by the butcher in the grocery store), some curd cheese, and away we would go !  (we didn't eat out much when I was a kid)

One of my favorite vivid memories is of shopping at the local grocery store, Doyles (as in Doyle Tucker's place).  This was located where Morgan Mercantile is now.  We usually parked out back, and would climb up the big cement steps on to the dock, and enter through the back door, which was a big wooden barn like door.  Right inside the door was the butcher department, and Mr. Tucker

Doyle Tucker
Such a nice man - always smiling
(This is Aunt Pam's dad) 

  would be there, in his big white apron.

Every kid who walked through that door got a free piece of baloney.  He would slice it off a big stick (of baloney), right in front of you.

The baloney was wrapped in red plastic, and we would peel the red plastic "rind" off our piece, hold the plastic in our teeth, and bite down, while pulling the plastic, so we could get every last scrap of baloney off the plastic.  Then we would take the round piece of baloney (approx 4 inches in diameter), and fold it in half, and then fold it again (it's in a quarter piece now), and then take a bite out of the pointed end, and then unfold it, and Voila !!!  there would be a perfect hole in the middle of the baloney, which we would then nibble on as we followed mom around the store shopping.

 I LOVE that memory !!