Saturday, July 18, 2009

Some bologna in Bologna, Florence

On the drive into Bologna...

Chuck: how do you spell Bologna?

Holly: B-o-l-o-g-n-a (did you sing the Oscar Mayer song?).

Chuck: ...like lunch meat? Ohhh, do you think we'll have bologna in Bologna?

Holly: Ummm, no.

Fastforward a few hours...
We stumble upon this great little restaurant in the quadrilateral district called il saracino. We ordered a starter 'grilled pork with pinenuts and balsamic.' Sounds good, doesn't it. The picture below is what arrived (not the greatest picture, but Chuck took it, so....).
It was really just one HUGE piece of bologna on a bed of lettuce with some pine nuts, sesame seeds and drizzled with balsamic vinegar. I guess we were going to have bologna in Bologna. Once we got over the shock of the translation from grilled pork to grilled bologna, it really wasn't that bad; although, I only had a few bites ;). We also had some fabulous tortellini with a rosemary sauce and gnocchi with a pomodoro sauce.



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