I know it's a major reason why I did when my arteries were young and seemed indestructible.

>I think that is why the kids like it! :o)
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>>>>>>One of my uncles retired after working for Oscar Mayer most of his life. He would not eat anything made by that company and told everyone in our family that if they had to eat something made by Oscar Mayer, only eat the pure beef bologna or hot dogs, nothing else.
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>>>>>So bogna is the hotdog sausage? I thought that was a frankfurter.
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>>>>Bologna is the same stuff that some people spell baloney.
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>>>They surely pronounce it that way, and after I tried it, I thought it's just the limitation of the phonetic apparatus.
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>>>We have a similar thing back home, called "parizer" (yeah, comes from the German adjective for "Parisian"). It looks the same, and the basic ingredients are close, and it's completely different. Well, used to be - I remember it as a great thing when I was a kid, but after mid-eighties it simply wasn't done right anymore. They started adding soy flour, which they never managed to stabilize properly, and it would accumulate on one side, and if exposed to air for longer than a day it would oxydate into nasty olive-gray color. And they started adding more starch and gelatin, probably to make it easier to slice.
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>>>The baloney here is even worse than that - after being exposed to air for a day, it becomes gooey and sticky on the surface, probably all the brine (if that's what it is) exudates to the surface. And the smell of garlic is a dead giveaway. My dad worked in a meat processing factory, on the supply side of it, and he heard lot of stories from the engineers. The short on the story: the more spice, the more they are trying to hide the actual ingredients.
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>>>We were buying baloney in the early years here, and after a while decided that it simply doesn't sit well with our habits. If we don't eat the whole pound at once (which we never do), nobody will touch the rest. So we now don't.
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>>But if you fry it like Tracy's daughter does, then it's so greasy and slimy that you really notice any of the other problems with it.