The idea of a bologna sandwich might conjure sad images of cold deli meat on white bread, but it only takes a couple tricks to make that sandwich spectacular.

Bologna played a starring role in my youth. Paired with the co-stars of white bread, Kraft American singles and Miracle Whip, bologna sandwiches kept my belly full for many of my grade-school ...

On the first Friday of the month, The Red Hot does a fried-bologna sandwich special. If you grew up eating them like I did, get it. Their take on the southern specialty is zhuzhed up to the max ...

This isn't a slice of bologna between two slices of white bread with Miracle Whip that has been bologna's fate ever since it became a cheap sandwich meat.

Eventually mayo took the place of Miracle Whip, too. But as I completed my transformation there is just one sandwich that never quite tasted right with mayonnaise.