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Here's the story. My brother and I are in our 60's. When we were young children, we were tourists in Italy with our parents. We both have a very fond memory of salami sandwiches bought at train stops by our dad.
As we recall, the sandwiches were just bread and salami - nothing else. I'm a little older, so my memory is of fairly large, thin slices of salami on great bread. My brother has tried different salamis, mostly small, hard salamis, with little luck. I think they were the larger, fattier sausages, thus needing no other fat such as olive oil or mayo.
Anybody have an suggestions as to what type of salami to try? We'd probably use a baguette as the bread as we have little recollection of the type of roll it was on. And probably no way to buy it here anyway in the Pacific Northwest. And am I wrong about nothing else being on them? Maybe there was olive oil?
We loved those sandwiches so much we dream about them some 60 years later!
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Hahaha! Yay!!! Can't wait to hear if it's the right one. My dad introduced me to it when I was a kid. I still love it and it holds good memories too. I just bought some a few weeks ago -- still yummy after all these years.
I think a lot has to do with the bread (and the atmosphere, but that's another topic).
but my guess is that it was Genoa - but good luck finding that quality in the US. It MIGHT have been sopressata - and that would be good because you can find good sopressata here.
The best hard salami I’ve eaten came from Hungary. It had the perfect balance of texture, acidity and smoke. Don’t remember the brand, but it was sold in the '80s at Harry’s Farmers Market in Atlanta.
Over the years I’ve tried to find a salami that was even close, but no luck. Even the so-called premium brands these days miss the mark.
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When I was a kid my Mom used to get salami from a deli that had green peppercorns in it, I used to pick them out as I didn't like them, of course now that I do I can no longer find that salami.
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Yay!!! Can't wait to hear if it's the right one. My dad introduced me to it when I was a kid. I still love it and it holds good memories too. I just bought some a few weeks ago -- still yummy after all these years.
