How it's made bologna episode

ByAndrew Warner

Ah, bologna.

Hate it or love it, bologna is an American lunchroom staple, and there's no other meat quite like it.

It draws on a little bit of everything: the classic, thin and floppy slices of meat are reminiscent of other deli meats like salami or prosciutto, but it's got a flavor profile and texture more similar to heavily processed "mystery meats" like hot dogs and Spam.

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Bologna holds a special place in the American culinary ethos.

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As professor of food studies at New York University, Amy Bentley, told Eater, "It's been inserted into the national psyche of despicable foods, laughable foods. 'That's baloney, that's crazy.' That's how we think of it.

It's been embedded in our brains that way."

There's no question about it — bologna is indeed embedded in the American mind as one of those foods that you eat, but don't really question what it's actually made out of and how it's actually made (and maybe you don't even really want to know).

But one can't help but wonder, as we eat

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