You don't need to use names Saxi, you can just list ingredients.
Lonous, sandwich week sounds spectacular! Particularly because you're using buns.
I was staying with my dad's uncle on his farm for the summer possibly 1977, he was building a tow deck on a neighbor's farm. We would get up have breakfast then go there. At lunch the neighbor's mom made fresh bread and put it out with pickles, meat and veggies. To me that obviously needed to be made into a sandwich. They started calling me Dagwood, I was ok with that. Those sandwiches were increadible!
I agree cold Bologna is not good. Cooked can be ok.
My mom was often a great cook, but I didn't like some of her sandwiches. I would eat them, but sometimes I protested. Most were meat, butter and Miracle Whip. Excellent if it was poultry, usually it was not. Sometimes it was even Bologna.
Her favorite was ham and tomato with miracle whip. No tomato? No problem. I was not a fan.
One day around 1982 or so, I wanted to recreate a pastrami sandwich I had on a school ski trip. Problem was there was no pastrami in our house. I had to make due and discovered Bologna could be made edible, by microwaving it prior to putting it in a sandwich. A fairly significant breakthrough, since my mom kept buying it on sale.
For a while I was actually loving, bread with a thin layer of French's mustard on the bottom, bread with lettuce and tomato for the top, then take Bologna hot from the microwave put it on top of the mustard with a Kraft single (processed cheddar often called American cheese these days). Close it up and it was delicious.
Occasionally I will gather the ingredients to re-live the experience, it's still pretty good, in moderation.
riskllama wrote:MTL smoked meat is also nice, but they're kinda overpriced, imo.
Agreed on the price being unreasonable, and it's become worse. I was going to put it in my three way tie but I can definately use it interchangeably with pastrami since they are quite similar to me. I can also use regular corned beef and be pretty happy.
Did you ever go to Dunn's when they were in the hotel on 16th ave and 19 street NE? I think it might have just changed from being the crossroads at the time.
There is a new casino by the Airport with pretty good food deals. They had Montreal smoked meat then before I tried one, they switched to a Reuben, it was excellent.