Posted on 08/25/2013 6:25:10 PM PDT by kristinn
My Uncle Duncan was among those who drove down to Regina for the Paul McCartney concert. When I saw him three days later, he still was jacked up.
“I haven’t had such a good time since my Scottish distillery tour in 1973,” he pronounced. This was high praise indeed. The last leg of Uncle Duncan’s 1973 Scottish distillery tour was a police escort to the airport.
The funny thing now was that Uncle Duncan, as far as I knew, is not a big McCartney fan. He never has paid much attention to popular music, except to ask that it be turned down or, better still, off.
What had possessed him, then, to go to the McCartney concert? “It was to fight injustice,” he said.
It all started with a disturbing news report. Aside from being a celebrated entertainer, McCartney is a militant vegetarian and animal rights crusader. So devoted is he that his roadies on this tour reportedly are served exclusively vegetarian fare.
Uncle Duncan, when he learned of this, was aghast.
“McCartney can eat as much tofu as he likes,” said Uncle Duncan, “but he shouldn’t force it down other people’s throats.”
He could not let this stand. After a trip to the grocery store for supplies, Uncle Duncan made 12 loaves of baloney sandwiches, with mustard, lettuce and, not one, but two slices of Schneider’s baloney in every sandwich. These he packed into a large cardboard box and transported to Mosaic Stadium in Regina.
He got into the stadium simply by claiming he was here with the sandwiches.
The attendant security guards were only too happy to partake. Once inside, Uncle Duncan distributed baloney sandwiches backstage to everyone wearing a tour T-shirt.
“They heard free baloney sandwiches and they swarmed me,” Uncle Duncan recalled.
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baloney with mayo(Hellmans or Best) and mustard ....ummm ummm good...
LOL ! me too
Fried Baloney with onions mmmMMMMMmmmmm
Vegetarian: Native American word meaning lousy hunter...
Growing up my mother insisted on buying only "all beef" Bologna because she was convinced it was waay better than regular bologna.
My grandfather explained to her the only difference between "all beef" bologna and regular bologna was that when making the "all beef" type they only used the floor scrapings from the cattle butchering room instead of all of the other various butchering room floor scrapings.
I'll take either ... with some mustard. ;~))
That Hickory Farms Beef Stick is usually better after a little tenure on a frying pan or over a camp fire too.
Serving meat to the crew sounds like fun. I can’t imagine any other reason to go to a McCartney concert.
I don’t know that much about vegetarianism. I wonder, do some of them still get obese? They always seem nice and trim, but maybe there are exceptions.
If that’s the stuff I’m thinking of, you’re not kidding. It’s almost inedible as sold. Never tried frying it though.
He didn't? I always assumed when I heard her music later (motto: "Who stepped on the cat?") that she'd taken a couple rounds to the voicebox and kind of semi-recovered.
I wonder if Sheriff Joe serves his green baloney sandwiches with lettuce and mustard?
I always figured that Lennon was stoned all the time, and thus Yoko looked good to him. Can’t imagine him, or anyone, being straight/sober and finding a damned thing about her attractive.
I did and it hit the spot. even went with mustard even though I am a mayo gal. Maybe we were subjects of subliminal advertising lol.
I used to know a couple of overweight lesbian vegetarians in college. They ate too much ice cream I think.
Ha! Not often I see my home town of Regina, Saskatchewan mentioned on the Free Republic. What a great story!
I’d say there was a simpler reason: Chapman didn’t have silver bullets, garlic, or a stake. . . . (evil grin)
"Yoko was there, but I was out of ammo". :-D
The correct way to eat Baloney is to fry it until it is slightly toasted brown, then put it on a soft roll with chopped onion and mustard
(most people make the mistake of frying the onions with the baloney, which is wrong. You want fresh raw vidalia copped finely)
I can tell everyone the correct way to make chili too, if anyone wants to know
(its with ground turkey and beer)
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