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Betsy L's avatar

This is fabulous. You have perfectly captured the scientific and linguistic rigor needed to describe baloney and its bread accompaniment. I salute you.

Emily Theroux's avatar

Bravo, sir! Your baloney sandwich is the genuine article!

Saralyn Fosnight's avatar

I recently saw some video of how baloney is made. Believe it or not, I didn’t think one second of puking. I saw recognizable cuts of meat put in some kind of churning machine that turned it into that familiar pink mass. Flavorings and other things were added, then huge vats of pink goo were rolled away to become the finished product. It looked less like what it was at the end than it did in the beginning but it did not look like offal, which surprised me.

I loved your description of the actual product and making it into a sandwich. I still would refuse to eat it.

Steve McCall's avatar

Brilliant.