Nancy Classics by Ernie Bushmiller for April 27, 2022

SOME of our friends were just talking the other day about the days when bologna came in a long sausage style casing – and the butcher used his butcher knife, guessed how much it would take to make a pound, and chopped off about a pound. Then he would weigh the hunk he cut off and you would decide whether or not you wanted to slice another hunk off the long link or were willing to accept the slice he had already made. Slicing machines were a VERY new innovation – it was not until years and years later that bologna came in packages which were already pre-slided. Also, in those days, IF you were so well off that you could actually BUY your bread at a store, the bread was NOT sliced. But most people still baked their own bread. Bologna tasted better in those days!