1960S Salami, Not Salami

[barry1010]

Does anyone know what the meat product I used to eat in the 50s and 60s was called?  A thick sausage in some sort of wrapper, pale pink on the inside eaten as it came in a sandwich or fried.  I think it may have started with a P.  

 

[-SharonA-]

Saveloy??

[gingejbee]

Polony?

[barry1010]

Thanks, but not that - we used to get that from the chippy and eat it hot.  This was from the butcher in amongst the sliced meats and black pudding.

[barry1010]

Poloney!  That's it, thanks.  How could I forget that?  

[barry1010]

I'm trying to think of the last time I had a saveloy - over 40 years, I bet.  I preferred a battered sausage from the chippy, it's no wonder I was so fat.  Cod and chips with a battered sausage and a scallop, please.  Don't forget the pickled onions.  (A scallop is a thick round disc of potato about 4" wide, battered and deep fried).

[fender62]

sausage in batter saveloy.. so much grease you could wring it out...tasty though, been many years since iv had one, there was also a round deep fried breaded sausage potato onion thing, can't remeber what it was called, also tasty.

[bhg481]

barry - you called it a scallop, in Lancs we called it a dab.

[pastafreak]

In the US, it's known as baloney...probably derived from Bologna. 

We'd also refer to something as "a load of baloney"...make of that what you will 😉 

[Vagus]

We do too, pasta, no idea where that originates.