[Leica] My First Picture of the New Year--One Big Bologna

[don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)]

Peter,
A bologna is a very non spiced sausage like meat product where the "meat" is
very finely ground so the consistency is very firm.  In the US it is usually
very inexpensive so we know which pig snouts and other delicacies go into
it.  Once upon a time this was a staple of children's lunches and I can well
remember fried bologna sandwiches being a treat.

Don
don.dory@gmail.com

On 1/1/07, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig@summaventures.com> wrote:
>
> Jim,
>
> I am still mystified, what is a "bologna"?
>
> Happy 2007 anyway!
>
> Peter Dzwig
>
> Jim Shulman wrote:
> > Central Pennsylvania has become somewhat famous for its local New Year's
> Eve
> > "drops".  Lancaster, PA is known as a rose city, so it drops roses at
> > midnight.  Another town is known for its wooden sleds, so they lower a
> sled
> > at midnight.
> >
> > Lebanon, PA is famous for Lebanon bologna, in either regular or sweet
> > varieties.  For the past ten years the town has created an enormous
> Lebanon
> > bologna, which is lowered to touch the ground at midnight.  After the
> > celebration, the bologna is donated to a local homeless shelter.
> >
> > About 500 people gathered at the 9th and Cumberland parking lot for the
> > event.  After the bologna descended, the DJ broke out the Village
> People's
> > classic rendition of "YMCA".  There were 500 people dancing to "YMCA"
> around
> > a 7 1/2 foot long, 125 lb. vertical bologna.  Hopefully a harbinger of
> very
> > good times in 2007!
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/slxe5
> > Some digital Olympus thing, lightened up so you can see the bologna.
> >
> > Jim Shulman
> > Bryn Mawr, PA
> >
> >
> >
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