OJFF: Kids Who Don't like Bologna?

I just asked my 8 year old if she knew what bologna was, and she said "No, what is bologna and why are you asking?"

I think I can safely say I don't know ANY kids that eat bologna. I thought it was kinda like spam, people used to eat it but not anymore.

The girls and I are veggie but I know lots of meateaters, I haven't seen a bologna sandwich on wonder bread since 1972!

I hated bologna as a kid, and still find it vile. My daughter tasted it once when she was a kid, spat it out, looked at me and asked, "People actually EAT this?"

hot dogs and bologna, made with everything from the rooter to the tooter.
good stuff!

I hate it (and always have). When we were too broke for anything but baloney as a kid... The other kids would have B Sammies. I'd have a mayo sammie. Yuck. Gag. Ick.

My son dislikes it (aka not as much as I hate it. He'll peel it off a sandwich and still eat the Sammie... I can't eat the Sammie, because I can still taste the gross). And won't eat it, period.

LOL ... It's not a copycat thing. He LOVES when he likes something I don't (like tuna, or Reese's)... Because he lives seeing the face I make / totally hams it up.

It's also not a processed food thing. I LOVE about 90 kinds of salami (but I hate cotto salami), prosciutto, hams, hotdogs (most but not all hotdogs, though), liverwurst, etc. It's just that baloney tastes like rancid puss and rotting meat. <gag gag choke!>

Also... Most balogna contains pork. Which is banned by 2 out of 3 major religions. So fortunately, its not something that comes up often (most of our friends being Jewish or Muslim.

Intersting reading the first few responders.

I ate bologna when I was a kid. My mom would occasionally get a good deal on un-sliced bologna and we'd eat a piece of bologna with a piece of cheese and a saltine cracker like an Hors d'oeuvre.

I like fried bologna and my kids had bologna when they were growing up. I don't actually know if my grandkids eat bologna or not. Its full of fat and salt, but people eat at McD, and Burger King, Wendy's and more deli's than I can possible write down. People eat processed foods on their Subways and Quiznos and various other subway type restaurants. Why wouldn't they eat bologna? A rose by anyother name is still a rose.

Hot dogs are just shaped bologna.

Good luck to you and yours.

my children don't know what it is and I plan to keep it that way.

I didn't know people actually eat bologna;).

No bologna or hot dogs in this house, for the boys or for me. Yuck!

Well, my kids don't even know what Bologna is.
I don't buy it.
Of course they see other kids eating it. But they don't nor have they ever had any interest in eating it.
We buy, regular deli meats.
Not Bologna.

I used to eat it as a kid.
I remember that.
But my parents bought it.

Why would anyone WANT their kids to like bologna!?

Ewww gross!!

If I want my kids to eat MEAT, I'll cook them something.

the "idea" of bologna kinda grosses me out - and hotdogs, too -- BUT i admit i go to them occasionally for quick dinner. and yes, my kiddo eats them just fine! we loooove our hotdogs around here! (although often i will "splurge" and get smoked sausages instead - they might not be much better health-wise, BUT they taste awesome!)

lmao@ the bologna snobs! lol...wow i feel like white trash now...sheesh :( lol!

Nope. Stranger yet, she doesn't like french fries. That's right my daughter Does. Not. Like. French. Fries. Crazy kid. :)

I have no idea. I have never given it to my children. I don't know if I ever will. The thought of bologna is just yucky to me.

My kids have never had bologna.

I have never given it to my kids. Is that weird?!

We also don't do hot dogs.

My kids will do processed cheese though, but I hate it, and they will only do it if it is grilled on whole wheat bread. Yes, we are weirdos and my kids eat things like salmon and kale. =)

I do not believe my son has ever tasted bologna. He is 6. I never had it until college when I tried it. GROSS. Sorry - and I eat most anything. I also don't think my son has ever had Wonder Bread and I don't think he has had processed cheese slices.

I HATED American cheese sandwiches when I was a kid. Who on earth thought putting mayo on cheese and mushy bread was a good idea?

ETA: Do you mean you put the cheese food, bologna and wonder bread together on the same sandwich?

I do eat salami, all hard sausage and (rarely) bacon. I do NOT eat hot dogs (unless camping and cooked over an open fire)

Unless she had it at school or with my mom, my daughter has never had it. it grosses me out, and it grossed me out as a child.

My kids have never had it.... : /

No. It's a disgusting non-food that has never been in my house. They tried it once at my nana's house and asked what it was and then asked for something else instead. My kids won't eat processed cheese or white bread either, unless it's something like a roll or French or Italian bread.

I don't remember serving or eating it for decades. But lots of people must .... as we were shopping yesterday, the day before the hurricane, the deli man yelled out to no one in particular: "Sorry, we've run out of bologna!" I burst out laughing!

LOL my kids have NEVER had it!
It's like Miracle Whip, something I absolutely hated as a kid and therefore have never purchased as an adult.
Maybe I'll have to go get some and see what they think....

I have never liked it. My kids won't even touch it either! That stuff is NASTY! I try to pack them a healthy lunch for school with fruit, carrot sticks, yogurt, cheese. I try not to give them yucky processed stuff that I don't even know what it's made of. Eeeewwww!

My kids have never eaten bologna so I have no idea if they like it or not. :)

As far as I know, my daughter has never has bologna. I have also never had Spam, but am really tempted to make it sometime for the helluvit!

Gross! Just the thought of bologna makes me feel like vomiting. I've never bought bologna. I'm sure my daughter wouldn't like it though. The only sandwich meat she liks is ham.

I remember my gradma making me a bologna sandwich when I was about 7 or 8 and I found a hair embedded in the bologna. The hair was actually sticking out of the meat. It was disgusting and I think about that every time I see bologna or hear someone talk about it.

I remember people making fried bologna when I was younger. That just looks and sounds disgusting.

I don't think I've anyone who really likes bologna. I've known people who will tolerate it. I don't know if my son would eat it, because I don't buy it. I think it's yucky! We do stay away from processed meats, in general.

My kids won't eat bologna or any weird meats. They will only eat fresh turkey,ham etc sandwiches. It has a super weird texture to me and I never ate it as a child. It made me want to throw up---I don't know why.

To be honest, I have no idea if my 9yo likes bologna. He has never had it. I am not a fan so I never buy it.

I wouldn't eat bologna until I was in college; and even then, it was just because I was desperate and it was the lunch "meat" that fit into my budget for a few months.

My kids have never had bologna--for deli meat I do pretty much just the Hormel all natural products (ham or turkey) which are minimally processed and have no preservatives (like nitrates, which may be carcinogenics).

My kids have never had bologna. I had a lot of it as a child and that's probably why I haven't bought it. It's a bit expensive too. So, if I have to decide between deli meat or bologna, I will always pick deli meat.
I had a bologna and cheese sandwich a couple of years ago and it felt like I was transported back to childhood. The next day I went to make another and I just couldn't eat it! Don't know why.
L.

We don't eat it often, but I grew up eating bologna.
It was good cheap food when our Mom was poor and struggling to make ends meet.
Sauteed onions with bologna cut in strips and then scrambled in with eggs was a meal we had often for breakfast or dinner.
I love a good kielbasa but it's hard to find a good one.
Our favorite growing up was Redlinski's smoked kielbasa from the Broadway Market in Buffalo NY.
The farmers' cheese pierogis were out of this world!
We like liverwurst, and pepperoni, too.
The only coldcuts I never liked was olive loaf and tongue.
You can't eat like that all the time, but a few times a year as a treat is nice.

Our daughter's never tried it since we don't buy it.

Mine have never tried it and refuse to ever do so. I think I only tried to give it to them once or twice though as it totally grosses me right out.

Mine doesn't eat it cause I do buy it. I don't feed him things I wouldn't eat and processed meats all pressed together? Ewwww

I can honestly say, that at ages 13 and 10, my kids have NEVER had bologna. I guess because neither my now ex and I liked it so it wasn't something I bought for them. I don't even know if they have had it anywhere else! lol!

I just asked my 10 yo son sitting next to me: Have you ever had bologna?

He said: I don't even know what it is. LOLOLOLOL

I love bologna!! But then, growing up we couldn't really afford it so it was more of a treat then. I love slapping a piece of bologna on toasted white bread with some mayo!! Yummy!! I know that sounds weird, but it's good!!

My kids like it but we don't really have it very often. Living up here where we do we're spoiled by the Amish Cheese shop - we get different lunchmeat and cheese all the time. Of course, if you go up to Amish Country, the trail bologna is really big up there!!

Fun question!

My daughter and hubby will not touch it.

On the other hand, I do eat it. I like it slightly browned in a frying pan and then on a sandwich with mayo and cheese melted from the hot bologna.

I will only eat beef bologna and hot dogs.

So I have always been weird but a bologna sandwhich with ham on one side turkey on another with two chees slices seperating them. Then you add some lettuce and some mayo and you have a meal fit for a king. O and add the dorritos with tostitos cheese dip and I am set for days...

Thank you Sherri you may have just got me off of my Chinese prego craving and shoved me into another. GROCERY STORE HERE i COME!!!

OMG Kari I still eat Spam... haha wow I feel out dated!

Can't stand bologna. I don't even consider it real meat, frankly. It even smells hirrble to me. My mom was a home ec/nutrition major in colllege and there was no way that bologna, much less any processed for, was going to making into the shopping cart, or through the front door when I was growing up. Bologna is just plain horrible to me.

Yes, I have tasted it a few times as a kid, mostly at a friends house. I took an obligatory 2 bites to be nice sort of thing, but it tasted bad to me, so I would not eat any more. Ick.

I am often surprised to see they still sell Bologna to be honest. I don't know anyone who actually eats it, and I know my kids can't stand it. We just buy ham, at least it is actual meat even if it is still processed. We do eat hotdogs, but we never buy bologna, not since the one time I let them try it and we all dislilked it very much. Yuk.

I never liked bologna as a kid and I still don't today. Neither does my daughter, who is 5. And because I was/am not a fan, I wasn't compelled to buy it in the first place, I just didn't see the need to get her started on something like that. She is also not a fan of many other kid favorites, including chicken nuggets, grilled cheese and mac and cheese. She does like salami and hot dogs though.

My kids hate bologna. My daughter also hates hotdogs but my son will eat them. He hates all french fries but mcdonalds. Wont touch tater tots or anything.

Bologna and hot dogs are the only meat my youngest will eat. The other two don't like it at all.

My son does not.

I love bologna but it has to be Kahns Club and no garlic. I like to take a spoonful of peanut butter and chase it with peeled strips of bologna. When I was little I took a half bologna sandwich with mustard in my lunch every day.

One of my kids eats pretty much everything. The other one is the pickiest kid. He has sensory/texture issues I am sure. He hates bologna...and most foods. He hates cheese. He hates most fruit. He won't eat most pizza...sometimes pepperoni pizza is ok but it has to be just a certain way. There's not a single sandwich he will eat. He won't eat hotdogs or hamburgers. He won't eat sausage. Sometimes we can get him to take about 2 bites of bacon but that's all. He will not even eat most desserts or baked goods. He has his list of about 10 foods he will eat and that's it. We have tried everything and we cannot get him to expand his palate. It's the most annoying thing ever, honestly. I feel like I have a freak for a child (no, I don't ever let him know I am thinking this). Thank goodness my other child eats almost everything, otherwise I would blame myself. The good eater is 3 and the picky eater is 8 (and has always been this way).

Our daughter cannot stand the smell of it. She des like good sausages and salami... Ham, turkey... Some hot dogs..

Huh...I don't know if my kids like bologna. I've never bought it for them. They've never been served it at friends' homes.

My daughter just walked in and I asked "Do you like bologna?" and she said "What's bologna?"

Looks like you may have to open this one up to include the adults.

I dislike bologna so much that I can count on one hand the number of times I've had it as an adult so my kids have not had much exposure.

ETA: Since you brought up hotdogs, are you aware that too many nitrates/nitriteshave been linked to an increased chance of brain tumors? So please don't overindulge.

Ohhhhhhh. Boars Head sliced thin on fresh white bread!!!! Yum. Every now n then I get a hankering and buy 1/4 lb for me. I am still alive and no worse off lol. My kids never ate it.

no my boys HATE it!! When I was growing up, my mom would take me to the store and get "bunny" bread. I just remember there was a bunny on the package, and the bread was really really soft. So we always called it bunny bread. Anyway, there was nothing better than bologna on bunny bread and folded over, with nothing else on it. Sometimes we would fry the bologna. Anyhow, my boys refuse to eat it. And they won't even eat it with grandma either.

My dd will eat almost any food as long as its not touching another food. I have never fed her bologna but she loves turkey lunchmeat and pepperoni.

I never liked bologna.

My oldest daughter is pretty picky about food. She's never liked "kid" foods. She wouldn't touch hot dogs, mac & cheese, hamburgers, and all the things we think of as "kid friendly food". She has never tasted bologna and refuses to do so.

My youngest daughter (just turned 6) loves bologna. She was introduced to it by her grandparents :( But since I never buy it she only gets it every now and then when her grandparents give it to her. This same daughter also loves sardines!!!

I know my youngest likes I but not sure about my oldest. I never fed it to them as little kids cause I don't like it but my husband does. Its along the same lines as hot dogs and I only eat a certain brand of those are cooked a certain way or I can't stomach them.

My son is picky and he does not like bologna or hot dogs. He loves salami and bacon though. Neither or these are the "healthiest" of all foods but everyone eats things like this this occasionally. No one is perfect.

They used to love it - fat free, low fat, regular, etc. I love the fat free or low fat. Now my daughter doesn't like it. Hubby doesn't like it either. Son and I still love it. I prefer it on two slices of bread - dry! Or put some onion flakes in cream cheese and let it sit for awhile and spread that and roll it up and eat that in the bologna.

my familly are not fond of it, but we will have ( specificly ) bbq hot dogs once in a while.......but do not like boiled hot dogs

I personally don't like bologna and neither does my husband so we don't buy it. We get either ham or turkey for lunch meat. My daughter doesn't like any lunch meat so she always eats peanut butter sandwiches. My son will eat either peanut butter or tuna in his sandwiches. Occasionally lunch meat. I'm sure if I asked them if they like bologna, they would probaly ask me what it is.

Oh we eat hot dogs too. Most of the time it's turkey dogs or all beef ones.

I almost hate to add since you haven't hardly gotten any answers that say kids like it.

but I also haven't never served it to my kids. I love it. my hubby doesn't, and since i felt lilke grown ups need to eat ham that's what i eat. my kids hate ham lunch meat, they will eat an easter ham roast.
and they will eat hotdogs but hubby won't.

he did get them addicted to salami sandwiches.

I almsot asked on here which is worse salami or Bologna???

i'm just sick of pb and j.

My grandmother gave us Bologna /American cheese and mustard sandwiches as a kid. I thought it was disgusting and picked it off and gave it to the dog. My brothers ate it but there was not much that they would not eat. I don't buy it and my husband has never asked for it so he is another kid who disliked it. My son has no idea what it is but I do try to avoid processed foods. He is very picky too..so I expect if he was offerred it at school one day he would refuse it. I would be shocked if he ate it/liked it.

Mine like it, my son more than my daughter.
Best way to eat bologna is cooked in pan what we down here call a "fried bologna sandwich" with mayo on wheat bread.
We like hot dogs too, best on the grill.
But it's not like that's all we eat either.

My parents never bought bologna when I was a kid, so I've never bought it for my kids. They do eat other cold cuts.

well - as a kid I didn't like bologna so have never even given it to my kids! Gross to me for some reason even back then though some how I loved liverwurst. Go figure.

My kids do not. I don't really buy it but it was a regular lunch thing when I was little. And my mom would put it in the oven for a bit or cook with eggs for dinner. I bought it once out of nostaglia I guess and hated it. Did not see why I liked it when I was little. My kids would not touch it. But one of my girls loves brauschweiger (liver sausage). Go figure. When I was little bologna and such was the thing to have. We didn't get ham from the deli or anything like that. To get to a McDonalds, it was a drive, Wendy's was closer as was Arby's but not a walk at least 20 mintues to drive to. My kids do eat hot dogs though I usually buy Turkey hot dogs. can not stand Oscar Meyer dogs.

I used to be one of those kids. I have never liked bologna, hot dogs, ham sausage, bacon, anything smoked (love oven roasted turkey breast, do not like smoked turkey - tastes just like ham to me, yuck!) People would say, "Just try it." I have. Many times. I was always jealous of people who love hotdogs. Hotdogs are at so many events - baseball games, cookouts, school festivals. What do I get to eat? Popcorn. Not exactly the same thing. Definitely not as filling.

There are always going to be kids that don't like something, no matter how many kids do.

I so wish I did like those foods, but I just don't.

No, we don't buy it. ......Bologna is
a cooked, smoked sausage made of cured beef, pork, or a mixture of the two. The meat is grounded and chopped. It is made from the gastrointestinal tracts of sheep, cattle, etc...No thank you....
The same with sausages, hot dogs, etc..It is junk food, bad for kids and grown ups.