[James Matthew Najera]

Did You Grow Up With These?​

Alright, GrayViners, it's time for a tasty trip down memory lane. Take a good look at this deli mystery: thinly sliced, dotted with green olives and red pimento bits, and packed with more nostalgia than a school lunch from the '60s. Do you remember what this was called at your local counter? Let us know below. What’s the most nostalgic item you’ve stumbled across recently? Share your finds in the forum!

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[Pattycake]

Aww, pickle loaf, definitely was packed in a lot of my lunches in the '70s

 

[redbayqueen]

Pickle and pimento loaf.

 

[Hazeleyes]

Olive loaf is a type of meatloaf or cold cut embedded with pimento-stuffed green olives
My mom likes this - it is so hard to find

 

[Shawncey2]

Olive loaf which I didn't like as a kid.

 

[mmarple]

Olive loaf. Loved it!

 

[zoer]

Olive loaf

 

[senior71]

Olive Loaf, I loved it. Another deli meat you don't see often is Old Fashion Loaf. I hadn't seen it in years, but last week I was at Von's deli, and there peeking around the bologna, was old fashion loaf. I bought a pound and it's gone!

 

[kotabuds]

Olive loaf

 

[katydid]

Olive Loaf

 

[julie.smith.1948]

Olive loaf. Lived it. Still do when I can find it.

 

[MidwestgmaX2]

Olive loaf! Love that stuff! I even got my husband hooked on the stuff after we got married over 51 years ago.

 

[Gayle B.]

I say it’s olive loaf. We didn’t get this in my childhood. I didn’t have any until the early 70’s. My husband was raised with it and bought some from the deli for himself and for me to try. I love balony and olives but not combined together. Yucky! My husband makes his own variety of it. He gets baloney and Spanish olives with pimentos. Makes baloney sandwiches with the sliced olives and sunshine mustard

 

[Spring]

My parents called it 'pickle loaf'