Pluggers by Rick McKee for May 18, 2023

A slice of pie in Jamaica costs $1.50, but in Cuba it costs $2 even. These are the Pie-Rates of the Caribbean

A plugger also knows that a baloney sandwich, while not good for you at all, is still a great sandwich – especially on white poison bread with a little miracle whip between slices and with worm guts on the bread all the while fishing along with that hot cup of black coffee from your Thermos – with maybe a few cold pieces of chicken for dessert! And for a bonus, the aroma of the wood burning to keep you warm on one side, anyway… just watching that bob bob bobber bobbing along!

I like fried baloney sandwich.

A honey baked ham is the best meat for a sandwich.

When counting carbs, you have to be very careful of what they consider a serving size…

My late mother used to make me fried baloney sandwiches when I would walk home for lunch from grade school. We lived less than two miles from the school, so I could not stay for lunch. Today?

For a Plugger, serving size is directly proportional to the craving/hunger for the item, be it baloney, chips, pieces/size of pie and cake slices, etc. My packages always seem to fall way short of what’s printed.

I don’t eat bologna often, but if I’m making a sandwich of it, I want it thick cut, not some skinny slice.

“It’s not a sandwich until you add cheese and pickles.” – my mom

My late father, a REAL Plugger, used to buy big tubes of bologna in red casings, hew off three-eighths-thick slabs, fry them in butter, and slap them between slices of home-made bread. He sneered at the scant few skinny slices in effete blister packs.

I buy a rotissiere chicken and strip the meat off the bone to use in sandwiches. Most packaged sandwich meat is far too processed to be healthy. That’s how you get to be an old, healthy plugger.

In my Plugger family, we were only ever allowed one slice of meat (usually either bologna or that yucky “chicken roll”) in a sandwich. It wasn’t until I got into college that I discovered the properly stacked sandwich!

Wasn’t baloney what Virgil and Louise subsisted on in Woody Allen’s “Take the Money and Run”?

This was me until 4 months ago when I started dieting, now its unsweetened museli and high protein yogurt instead of fried bologna sandwiches.. serves me right i suppose!

Tis the only way not to say “Where is the Beef” ;-)

what is that in the picture, five slices of baloney?

I am mostly a peanut butter (no jelly, no honey,no anything else) sandwich person.

Problem we have with sandwiches is that the bread and the meat both go green long before the packages are finished. Just had to throw out a half a white bread and 2 rolls – and sure the rye bread will be green shortly also.