Do you know what bolonie is?
@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
United States
April 27, 2016 10:44am CST
I have lived in the south almost 16 years. It doesn't cease to amaze me how people pronounce and/or spelling words. They take perfectly good English and turn it into - I'm not sure what.
Case in point, I person who purchased some items from us through a post in Facebook, who I friended so we could communicate easier - made me LOL a short wile ago.
He posted that he is having lunch with his parents and he described the menu which included:
* Fresh sliced tomatoes
* Eggs
* Hot coffee
* Hog gowels
and
* Bolonie
I guess if you can't really spell a word property you can do it phonetically. Just throw a few letters out there and see what it spells.
However - has he never seen the Oscar Mayer commercial, "My bolonga has a first name...
I bet you thought I was going to make fun of the hog jowels!
Photo: pixabay.com/en/hog-pig-swine-piglet-sow-441056/
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@Rosekitty (19368)
• San Marcos, Texas
28 Apr 16
hahahaha...i like to mess with people and actually say bologna as its spelled...you should see the looks i get..hahah
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@Rosekitty (19368)
• San Marcos, Texas
28 Apr 16
@AbbyGreenhill here either and sometimes i wonder where is their sense of humor..hahaah
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
28 Apr 16
They would never understand that around here either.
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@Marilynda1225 (83109)
• United States
27 Apr 16
I've also seen it spelled baloney but never bolonie 
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
27 Apr 16
This guy works at a nuclear power plant...that scares me!
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@valmnz (17097)
• New Zealand
28 Apr 16
@AbbyGreenhill and after writing that comment I realised the Irish word is probably spelled baloney.
@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
28 Apr 16
Bologna is a lot of rubbish - not gourmet food by any means.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
27 Apr 16
I think hog jowels are pig cheeks...not quite sure but that's a guess.
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@jaboUK (64354)
• United Kingdom
27 Apr 16
@AbbyGreenhill That's probably right - human jowls are droopy cheeks I think.
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@1creekgirl (41747)
• United States
27 Apr 16
Abby, you've probably also heard Vienna Sausages pronounced "Vhy eenies." That's right up there with putting cheese in your coffee and peanuts in your Pepsi.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
28 Apr 16
I have to admit I've never heard any of those three.
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@1creekgirl (41747)
• United States
28 Apr 16
@AbbyGreenhill Wow, maybe those are just NC practices!
@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
28 Apr 16
They sell hog jowels in jars in the grocery store - I gag when I see it.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
28 Apr 16
@JudyEv We used to buy pigs ears for our lat dog, they aren't cheap!
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@JudyEv (342088)
• Rockingham, Australia
28 Apr 16
@AbbyGreenhill There are big tubs of pigs' ears in our supermarket which are meant as chew toys for dogs. They're pretty gross too.
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@celticeagle (168256)
• Boise, Idaho
27 Apr 16
I have always wondered about a lot of that southern food. Funny how people don't even use a spell checker. Being a writer and a lover of the English language it bugs me to see mistakes but I try to consider the source. People are only human!
@celticeagle (168256)
• Boise, Idaho
28 Apr 16
@AbbyGreenhill ...Yes, it is. But, I was talking about the other one you mentioned.
@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
28 Apr 16
Bologna isn't a southern food - I think it's pretty much anyplace in the US. I know we have it up north. This guy works at a nuclear power plant, I sure he spells words correctly there.
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@jstory07 (139974)
• Roseburg, Oregon
28 Apr 16
I seen that commercial so many times that I will always know how to spell bologna.
@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
28 Apr 16
I think that's why we know how to spell it correctly.
@LadyDuck (472074)
• Switzerland
28 Apr 16
@AbbyGreenhill Here is a photo of sliced Mortadella Bologna , this is the way we call it.
@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
27 Apr 16
Yes, he obviously doesn't know how to spell it correctly. The bologna eaten in the US is not what they make in the city of Bologna. From what I read the stuff made in Italy goes under a different name and is a different product.
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@1creekgirl (41747)
• United States
27 Apr 16
Of course I know what balonie is....it's that stuff that nobody knows what's in it and most likely wouldn't want to know. 
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
28 Apr 16
Its stuff they sweep up off the floor LOL!
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
28 Apr 16
I thought about it, but the bolonie was too good to resist.
@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
27 Apr 16
Hog jowels I think are pig's cheek. Yes, bologna is spelled like the city - it's cold cuts - presumably pork.
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@creativeintelligene (133)
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28 Apr 16
Being lost in the busy schelude of their fast paced life, most of the people have forgotten Grammar and pronounciation....What to do?
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
28 Apr 16
This is a spelling error - or a finger typing error - not sure which.
@LeaPea2417 (37379)
• Toccoa, Georgia
27 Apr 16
Ha ha, the thing is when they are posting things like this on Facebook, there is the "spell check". So, online, we really have no excuse for misspelled words!
@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
27 Apr 16
He might not bother fixing a word spelled wrong.
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
27 Apr 16
well, it does sound like bolone, or bolonie, but yes, I hear the song IN my head when I spell bologna now.
This is the one with the cute kid fishing. He sings the song, "My bologna has a first name, it's O-s-c-a-r. My bologna has a second name, it's M-a-y-e-r."
@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
27 Apr 16
Yes, that why I said he spelled it phonetically
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@AnneEJ (4917)
• Dollard-Des-Ormeaux, Quebec
30 Apr 16
It is strange how people use Baloney instead of bologna, but I have never seen it spelled bolonie before.
@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
27 Apr 16
He is a big pig isn't he LOL - there were so many pig photos I liked that one the best.
@BettyB (4117)
• Summerville, South Carolina
27 Apr 16
I've lived in the south for 32 years now, and I still laugh at the way they pronounce some things.
@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
28 Apr 16
I know what you mean. Sometimes you just have to try not to laugh...until you are out of their eyesight.
