A few /many years ago when 4 of us dingbats went to California in a 9 passenger van we always stopped at a market for our lunch...and it was much more fun than eating at a restaurant....All areas have different things in their grocery stores...and I still enjoy browsing through Supermarkets...We got a chance to walk around and stretch our legs and buy all kinds of interesting things to eat...I remember friend Vivian putting potato chips on top of her sandwich..... If you count up all the lunches you fixed for your growing family I doubt they remember many of them with the warm memories of your cheese and bologna sandwiches......Bologna tasted better back then , anyway, because they put better meat in it....That was before all the preservatives, additives, and imported scrap meat came to be..... You could fry the bologna to give it a whole different taste...now days it's rare to find bologna that 'fries' good...The small rolls of Spring Hill 'cracker 'bologna is the best I've found lately....Cumberland Gap made a great bologna, plain or you could fry it, but they discontinued it. I told the butcher that's the main reason I shopped in that store but he couldn't get it any more...Said they'd had lots of complaints....Oh well, tried the small roll of cracker bologna { Sized to slice onto crackers }when it was on sale , hubby and Buzz love it...Wonder when they will drop THAT ? Seems like that's what happens....Find something unusually good and they drop it...... Hubby grew up eating a type of bologna called 'Rag' bologna, because it's encased in a wax covered cloth sack...It's a little like braunswieger...At the meat market where Son shops they sell it in one pound rolls...I occasionally buy hubby a few slices of it when I stop in on my way home...And of course I buy 3 homemade peach fried pies..I eat one on the way home and hubby never knows ! *grin*...He wouldn't care either, come to that, but it makes me feel slightly wicked....I also get him some Hoop cheese...you hold up fingers to measure off how big a hunk you want and they cut it with a big knife...Theres two types of this cheese in glass 'cake cover' type deals setting up on the ecounter....It's good cheese, but kinda pricey...You can get all those wooden boxes there that you want for less than $5.00.....I look at them, but have so many different sizes of them in the attic already...and not doing anything with them...Yes, my attic is an interesting place... One time on my way to my Son's I stopped in that store,{Trollingers, near Paris, TN], and noticed they had an end piece of roast beef...asked the price they said it was a little cheaper that way...WRAP IT UP ! I then had them round up every end piece of lunch meat they had if it was a sort I liked. Each piece was wrapped in white paper and taped..Bought a few slices of smoked turkey for John, I also got a few small packages of different neat cheese...and some salt pork for me and Son...we just love it fried up crisp and lightly browned ! For supper that night we all sat in a circle and I opened each pkg. and passed them around so each one could take a sniff of the barely opened pkg. and write down what they thought it was.....I thought Son would be able to tell by smell better than he did....By the way, I didn't aim to include the salt pork in the guessing game ,but that got the biggest laugh of all...We divvied up the food and ate chunks of it with crackers and pickles....Now don't you think that was better than just plain old sandwiches ? The kids still mention it once in awhile...Maybe sometime when Buzz will be over there visiting I'll do that again.....John's girlfriend is sure to be there.....She should enjoy sharing one of his memories....Jeannie T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~ On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 10:26:39 -0700 "Peace Roses" <Roses4831@msn.com> writes: . When the kids were still home, and we went on a car trip to somewhere, we would stop and get a loaf of bread, a package of bologna and a package of cheese. I would make the sandwiches. ............... Emma > ____________________________________________________________ Save big on high quality window coverings from your favorite brands. Click now! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/Ioyw6i3nY87Mz2F7wTYNWyLqWliPh0bHFQCx0TL6LGBaDWKXwxpRco/