TheChief - Posted - 01/10/2014:  11:11:00

HOLY MACKEREL!!!!!

I'M 10 YER OLD AGIN

RayD - Posted - 01/10/2014:  13:56:45

For salad, mama would chop up some iceberg lettuce, add in some cut up tomato (maybe some shredded carrot), and for salad dressing, stir in a dollop of Miracle Whip. It wasn't fancy but it was good! Oh!.. Some days she'd make homemade carrot and raisin salad. Man, that was good......

Cheers,

RayD

TheChief - Posted - 01/11/2014:  09:23:14

That beats pork and beans or Spam  with a piece of light bread....and that beats nothing.

s

chuckv97 - Posted - 01/11/2014:  10:01:56

That's poverty banjo food,Sonny, like when I was trying to make a living playing music. haha (also , sardines and toast - make sure u carry mouthwash with you)  

RayD - Posted - 01/11/2014:  10:37:47

Heck, when I was a kid I didn't know anything about poverty. I thought a fried spam or bologna sandwich was a treat. Momma had pretty much the same menu week in and week out. That meant I sort of knew what to expect and look forward to. Only later in life did I realize that we were just getting by. It's sort of amazing what our parents did to make things better for us.

Cheers,

RayD

chuckv97 - Posted - 01/11/2014:  10:49:31

Ya, let's play the "Mom and Dad's Waltz"

Edited by - chuckv97 on 01/11/2014 10:55:12

Jeff Markham - Posted - 01/11/2014:  10:51:13

My parent worked at day jobs, then worked until dark in our garden when they got home. It was a big garden. I spent a lot of time behind a tiller. 100 tomato plants, tied and suckered. 72 quarts of dill pickle one year, not counting schoolgirl pickles, bread-and-butter pickles, and pickled okra. Potatoes put in the shed for eating all winter.



My mom would stay up until 3am, canning tomatoes, then get up and go to work a few hours later. We never ate store-bought vegetables.



Hard workers.



She couldn't cook worth beans, though. She used a pressure cooker to cook snap beans, with a hunk of pork. After spending time in the pressure cooker, they didn't resemble beans much.



Al dente? Hah! We don't need no stinkin' al dente.

Edited by - Jeff Markham on 01/11/2014 10:51:35

From Greylock to Bean Blossom - Posted - 01/11/2014:  12:55:25

Fired baloney with eggs in the morning may be getting by, but it tastes pretty darn good too!

ken

TheChief - Posted - 01/16/2014:  16:22:56

In Knoxville, 1953-4 there was a restaurant.
BLUE CIRCLE...The equivalent of Krystal.
Our dinner every night was 3 or 4 hamburgers. They were $.19 each.
I definitely know what Spam, Bologna (Boloney), Vienna sausage, Saltines
Pork and beans, etc.etc..is. Still do!!!

s

Mike Rowe - Posted - 01/16/2014:  17:22:16

My relatives in Paintsville, KY say Vie-eenie sausage!

Scaggs7 - Posted - 01/16/2014:  19:10:10

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Originally posted by Mike Rowe

My relatives in Paintsville, KY say Vie-eenie sausage!

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I hear that. Ha ha. 

chief3 - Posted - 01/17/2014:  05:34:39

My father was very proud of the fact that he could put meat on the table which was most often venison or moose. Very rarely did we have beef. I also remember the giblets in gravy, blood sausage, pigs feet (pork hocks), liver, fried baloney, smelts (when in season), partridge, goose, trout and perch, etc. Mostly Northern food from the land.

Steve Bruce - Posted - 01/17/2014:  05:40:11

Living here in the Knoxville vicinity, I remember the Blue Circle. Had a blue ball on top of the building.

TheChief - Posted - 01/17/2014:  06:31:40

VI..EE..NEE...is the way I've always thought it was until I heard others say it correctly. To be quite honest, when I wrote that I had to ask the correct spelling for fear someone would not know what I was talking about. :-).
s

gdt - Posted - 01/17/2014:  08:11:23

when i was kid my grandpa and i would split a can of vienna then he would drink the juice "best part "he would say..

chuckv97 - Posted - 01/17/2014:  08:24:05

Didn't Oscar Mayer conduct the Vienna Orchestra?

bhrb75 - Posted - 01/17/2014:  09:51:27

In western NC it's pronounced VY-EEN-ER

RayD - Posted - 01/17/2014:  09:59:57

Where I grew up in Texas it was Vee-n-er sausage. Dad also like to spread potted meat on saltines as well. And, of course, there was RC cola and Moon Pies! Shoot, the Moon Pies that are around now are more like quarter moon pies...

Cheers,

RayD

RatLer - Posted - 01/17/2014:  11:06:09

Note to self..."Call wife, tell her we ain't goin' to Red Lobster tonight....I'm bringin' home Vi-Eenies and Crackers..."  

banjoman56 - Posted - 01/17/2014:  11:41:09

Better bring a few extra, in case you get hungry tonight while sleeping on the couch. 

RayD - Posted - 01/17/2014:  13:50:32

Why don't we just go all out and make some corned beef hash with a couple of eggs on top?

Cheers,

RayD

TheChief - Posted - 01/17/2014:  14:40:29

OK, now you did it. I like it, but what is corned beef?

s

RayD - Posted - 01/17/2014:  17:03:04

Corned beef is beef that has been processed/preserved by using large amounts of salt. In times past the salt was large, coarse crystals and they were referred to as "corns". While tasty it is usually fatty and VERY salty. Just like a lot of foods we like that aren't good for us!

Cheers,

RayD

Scaggs7 - Posted - 01/17/2014:  17:05:49

Those little suckers are good but do you know what's in them?   (:()

davehicks - Posted - 01/17/2014:  19:04:19

Chief3, my father in law deep fries bolony like you would a turkey, pretty tasty

TheChief - Posted - 01/19/2014:  17:02:07

I had not heard of deep frying bolony but I never saw a bolony I didn't like. When I was a kid living in Southeastern Kentucky, my parents bought it in a foot long roll...no such thing as pre sliced. Still do, when I can find it.

Blue Circle hamburger ingredients? I don't know and don't want to know..(unless it would make a Chief banjo sound better) {;-)>
I know in 1954, winter time in Knoxville, they were pretty darn good....and 19cents each...made it better!

s

From Greylock to Bean Blossom - Posted - 01/19/2014:  17:41:29

That good baloney in the roll had an equally delicious cousin. That cousin was the red hot dog that came in the casing. When you grilled it and then bit into it, it popped and had a lot of juice. This thread may change to the 5 string gourmet.
ken

banjoman56 - Posted - 01/19/2014:  17:55:07

I remember that bologna in the rolls very well. I think the brand name of it (or at least the kind we bought) was Crown or something of that sort. I would come in from school and the first thing I did was cut a half in. slice of that roll and make me a sammich!  Good eating, especially if you have a good fresh tomato right out of the garden to go with it.

davehicks - Posted - 01/19/2014:  18:40:54

Sonny, that is what he deep fries, the foot long rolls of ky border. Fry it til it gets a good brown color on the outside!!!

mahogchief01 - Posted - 01/20/2014:  16:08:54

I still have a fried bolony sandwich once in a while.  I remember when I was a kid we could get it in a roll.  I haven't seen that in quite a while.  Of course, I don't get to the grocery store much these days.  My wife does that job.  She's not a bolony fan like we all are.  haha.  She thinks I need to eat healthier.

Mick

davidcava - Posted - 01/20/2014:  17:18:11

lol....I clicked on the last thread of this topic and found fried bologna!......thats great. I love it, fried oscar mayer,almost crispy,sliced bologna,between two slices of wonder bread. Pressed together as tightly as possible......a delicacy .....give it a try.


dc

davidcava - Posted - 01/20/2014:  17:58:35

Thinking about the first and only time I met Sonny Osborne. Probably mid/late nineties at the Kissimmee bluegrass festival, out in a field he did a small workshop. It was awesome, a Master Musician and his banjo in the middle of a field talking banjo.......thats bluegrass at its best babeee!!!!! Thanks Sonny

dc

RayD - Posted - 01/20/2014:  19:11:28

Just wondering, anyone here ever try a fried boloney grilled cheese sandwich? I personally haven't; but, the thought just popped into mind. I may just have to try one!

Cheers,

RayD

Jeff Markham - Posted - 01/20/2014:  19:26:21

I love Chief banjos...fried or not.

TheChief - Posted - 01/20/2014:  22:47:13

Ray;



2 thick slices of Bar S bolony with a slice of cheddar cheese between them, fried till the cheese is melted , on toast...maybe Texas toast. Smooth as my Granada!!!!

Hard to beat.

To keep the bolony from curling up, make 4 1 inch cuts ..North, South, East, and West.



s

Edited by - TheChief on 01/20/2014 22:48:42

bhrb75 - Posted - 01/21/2014:  03:08:45

2 slices of thick sliced fried Carolina Pride boloney, on two slices of Sunbeam sandwich "light bread" and a good coating of mayonnaise (pronounced "eye-nez") gets it done for me. I only eat that in the summer. Lol

5drive - Posted - 01/21/2014:  04:06:29

Sonny,you hit it right about making those cuts,I hate it when it rolls up!  Brandon,you know too that around here you gotta have Duke's mayo!

Jim

RFsquared - Posted - 01/21/2014:  06:45:34

Sonny,
Did you ever try the Jiffy burger? It was in Knoxville also, like the Blue Circle.

Well let me say, it was in the 60's. Then along came the Krystal!! Now both are gone.

Rick

banjoman56 - Posted - 01/21/2014:  07:52:10

I like pepper jack cheese on my boloney sammich's.

RayD - Posted - 01/21/2014:  09:11:19

These fried balony-n-cheese on toast recipes are making me hungry! And I'm stuck at work......

Cheers,

RayD

momo - Posted - 01/22/2014:  07:42:48

Sonny I have a couple of questions, was the original recording of One tear recorded with the Rocky Top RB-3 ? who wrote that song? That Banjo Break sounded so solid and full of Tone.

TheChief - Posted - 01/22/2014:  08:14:36

I used a Vega Pro 2 or the "Roll Muddy River" banjo (Kenny Ingram plays it now) on that song. I can't remember which but it was surely a Vega. My wife wrote that song, (POEM) in high school and I did the melody..(tune) 1964. I still have that banjo.

s

momo - Posted - 01/22/2014:  12:28:36

One tear is a great song, that Vega has got some mojo. Sonny when you first you saw Earl Scruggs' Banjo was there any Gold Hardware still on it from the original Granada and what was the inlay pattern on the neck.?

Spike2 - Posted - 01/22/2014:  21:04:01

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Originally posted by TheChief

VI..EE..NEE...is the way I've always thought it was until I heard others say it correctly. To be quite honest, when I wrote that I had to ask the correct spelling for fear someone would not know what I was talking about. :-).

s

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Hahahahaaa I can hear you say it VI EE NEE. Too funny.

I don't know how anyone eats bologna, fried or any other way. I never liked it but, boy, my dad sure did. He said when he was a kid and had store bought white bread with a thick cut slice of bologna, he thought he was in heaven. ACK ACK AAACK  lol

RatLer - Posted - 01/23/2014:  08:44:13

Thick bolony on white bread with miracle whip and a nice layer of tater chips...now that's a sammich.......and if you got a Chief banjo sittin' on the stand while you're takin' sammich break...well then you're in heaven...no doubt !!!

TheChief - Posted - 01/24/2014:  06:25:13

Chris

I would need to check further, but from memory, Earl's banjo was nickel, gold tone ring, and block inlay.

I was 15 yrs old so that has been some time ago...over 60 years.

I'll check that and let you know.



s

Edited by - TheChief on 01/24/2014 06:25:55

momo - Posted - 01/24/2014:  07:57:29

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Originally posted by TheChief

Chris

I would need to check further, but from memory, Earl's banjo was nickel, gold tone ring, and block inlay.

I was 15 yrs old so that has been some time ago...over 60 years.

I'll check that and let you know.



s

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Thanks, Sonny I was just thinkin that why would Gibson replace every bit of hardware with Nickle and not leave any original metal except the Tone Ring. I understand 60 years is quite some time ago. its funny,today everybody want's a pre war factory Original Gibson Banjo. Earls Banjo was not even close. When you had the chance to play his Banjo for the first time, what do you vividly remember about it?

TheChief - Posted - 01/24/2014:  13:46:51

I think Earl replaced those parts himself because when a gold piece would need replaced a person would have a rather hard time finding them. Lester told me he saw Earl trimming the original neck with a wood rasp. I know for a fact the necks on the original Granada's were very big for the reason that maple would tend to warp and twist, so they made them larger. That wood rasp led to many different necks.
But one must realize that most of the tone comes from that person's right hand. In that, Earl, Reno, Me, Crowe, Stanley..it didn't make much difference what we played, we still sounded like who we were.
The first time I played that banjo was app.1958 and I thought the strings were exceptionally high. I didn't like it very much although I realized that Earl got such a good sound from it.
I played that banjo many times and later it played somewhat better. Of course that was after the invent of plastic heads and banjos were set up quite differently, and sound systems were much better and one didn't need the extra volume.
Interesting stuff, to remember.

s

momo - Posted - 01/24/2014:  16:50:20

Thanks Sonny, I also think its some interesting stuff and not the first time I heard about the High action on Scruggs' Banjo