What's in bologna?

Answer 1

Nasty *** ****. They're like flattened hot dogs. Don't do it man.

Answer 2

ARE YOU NUTS? That's a question you don't ask. It's wrong. It's just so wrong you wouldn't believe. Well, maybe not quite that bad. Not as bad as hot dogs. A lot of salt, sodium nitrite, spices (mostly pepper), quite a bit of fat, sweetener if it's sweet bologna and whatever meat they claim went in. You can probably trust them on that. Usually beef, but you can get pork in there too if it's declared. Unless it's mainly beef, you lose the essence of bologna. You can trust the label, but it's cured more than it's cooked so you're safe most of the time but there have been illnesses reported. That's rare. They have an obvious interest in keeping things really clean. A lot of fat, though. You've heard of Lebanon bologna? Palmyra is just down the road (I live in the area--snack food capital of the world). The Palmyra Bologna Co. had a fire several years ago. You just can't put out a fire that big, fueled by that much fat. The fire co. contained it, but it burned to the ground. They rebuilt and were back in business in no time.

Answer 3

More than anyone ever needed to know:


Bologna sausage is an American version of the Italian mortadella (a finely hashed/ground pork sausage with lard pieces). The American version can alternatively be made out of chicken, turkey, beef, pork, or soybeans. It is commonly called bologna and often pronounced by hypercorrection) and/or spelled baloney. The "baloney" pronunciation can be used to mean "lies" and/or to express disbelief (a minced oath version of "bullshit"; see below).

This food is usually served in round uniform slices pre-cut in a package or sliced by a butcher, though many brands are sold as large chunks to be sliced by the consumer. Minced bologna is popularly produced and sold by Oscar Mayer, which had a famous advertising campaign in the 1970s with a well-known jingle ("My bologna has a first name, it's O-S-C-A-R..."), which was sung by Andy Lambros. There are many other manufacturers as well, including local butcher shops and grocery store meat counters.

Bologna sausage is typically served in a sandwich, often for lunch; hence, it is one of the most common "cold cuts" in the U.S. However, bologna may also be served fried or wrapped around mashed potatoes or pastry dough and baked as a version of "pigs in blankets".

Ring bologna can be found in two inch (5 cm) diameter sausages that are normally about a foot long. These can often be found pickled in a combination of vinegar, salt, sugar and spices.

Bologna sausage is commonly believed to be created from lowly scraps of meat cuts. It is assumed that this food, therefore, is the origin of the slang word baloney, meaning "nonsense" or "BS". An alternative etymology suggests that baloney is a corruption, through the French, of the city of Bologna, Italy. As the university at Bologna was known for its legal education, the French, and later English, came to call legal clap-trap balogna, or baloney.[citation needed]

Bologna is also popular breakfast food in Newfoundland, served fried as a substitute to ham slices. It is also sometimes barbecued as well. In either case, it is referred to as "Newfie Steak".

A similar sausage is known in Australia variably as polony, fritz, devon or strasbourg. Which name is used is dependent on which state one is in.

In Pittsburgh, bologna is sometimes referred to as "jumbo".[1] In Chicago, bologna is often called bosaus, a shortened version of bologna sausage.[2]

24 October is National Bologna Day' in the US.

Answer 4

Does it matter? If you like it, you're going to go make you a bologna sandwich anyway.

Answer 5

after they meat producers have their quota of meat from an animal carcass the remaining meat is used for bologna and wieners.

Answer 6

Hmmmm! That's a good question. Usually things left over from the butcher, some spices...

Answer 7

Pork, chicken, sugar, spices and some fat content. Some have all beef with the other ing. the same and some are all 3...chicken , pork and beef. Depends on brand. it's listed on the label what's in it.

Answer 8

I think pork & chicken but I'm not sure so just look in the back of the pack & it will tell you

Answer 9

its a type of meat sauce. it has sausage and different kinda meats in it. alot of italian dishes have it.

Answer 10

exactly the same thing as hot dogs