Flap meat is just a sirloin trim; also called "the butcher's secret" as it's a cut they often know to save for themselves. Makes very good stir fries or fajitas.
Head cheese is delicious. Especially the pickled varieties. I always used to think it was disgusting, but once I got over myself and actually tried it, I never thought of it as anything but yummilicious. And it honors the animal by using all of it, rather than wasting less glamorous parts.
Tough choice. About half the products on the list sound utterly disgusting (and I'm not even a vegetarian). Head cheese? Meet in a jar? Barf. Bologna is the grossest lunch meat, regardless of the manufacturer. And while I like both venison and pork, combining it sounds like a terrible idea (also, it's probably 95% pork with a few slivers of venison thrown in for marketing purposes).
Flap meat is the fuckin' best. I've never had kiszka, but it looks and sounds like blood sausage, aka black pudding, aka boudin noir, which is absolutely delicious. Summer sausage is a mainstay of every Hickory Farms, Swiss Colony, or Figi's gift basket from the mall, so it's hardly weird.
I'm going to vote for picked bologna, which looks a little too much like fetus in formaldehyde for my taste.
I'm going to go with pickled bologna. And I don't know how many of these things are Pure Michigan (TM). As said previously, summer sausage is a delicious thing available wherever fine foods are sold, Polish meats are awesome and available at Polish markets, I had homemade head cheese in Seattle, I thought (Oh boy!) Oberto made cheesy meat sticks, and I also ate tons of rutabaga in Seattle.
However, I am definitely going to start calling summer sausage "horse cock" from now on, so thanks for that.
Ham salad was a regular in my house growing up in Michigan. I've been craving it for years but haven't managed to find it on my trips back to the mitten.
"Koegels" (pronounced "Kegels") is funny in light of the Horse Cock comment.
I bet the dip cheese-n-beef is legit delicious, though.
Everything else is pretty gross.
And Braunschweiger is delicious!
Thanks for ruining my appetite.
I'm going to vote for picked bologna, which looks a little too much like fetus in formaldehyde for my taste.
Braunschweiger, just like a sausage should!
However, I am definitely going to start calling summer sausage "horse cock" from now on, so thanks for that.