Talk:Bologna sausage

message: Entry feels much too short. It does not at all discuss what it's actually made out of or what it is that gives it the distinctive flavor. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.18.162.88 (talk • contribs) 19:56, 15 June 2006 UTC.
Is there any reason for the inconsistency in spelling of baloney/boloney and bologna/balogna?
Agree about the spelling of boloney, never seen it spelled that way.  I also think that the pronunciation for baloney/boloney is wrong.
I've lived in Pittsburgh for over 20 years. Nobody *ever* calls it Jumbo here, and I even worked in a deli for awhile.  I've seen the term 'Jumbo Bologna' here once in awhile, but never just 'Jumbo'.
I've lived in Pittsburgh for over 40 years, and Jumbo is ham, not Bologna.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.115.97.235 (talk) 02:46, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm also a Montrealer and I second the precedent comment, "poulet farci" makes so sense at all, I've never heard of it either. I think the article author got it confused with another type of low-quality cold cut made from chicken scraps, called "simili-poulet" (mock chicken) or "poulet pressé" (pressed chicken).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.67.216.26 (talk) 19:38, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

text: Wrong on every count.
1) As is correctly stated in the article, Balogna is derived from Mortadella, and Mortadella originated in Bologna, thus the name.
2) Balonga most certainly DOES derive from Mortadella. I don't think you understand what the word 'derive' means.
3) Mortadella most certainly IS a sausage, as sausage is NOT characterised by only being wrapped in pork gut. Sausage can be wrapped in many different types of skin.
4) Mortadella most certainly DOES have myrtle berries in it. Pepper and pistachio are NOT the only flavours associated with Mortadella. Period.
FillsHerTease (talk) 08:00, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: From the Composition section:
:A national brand, Oscar Mayer, had an advertising campaign in the 1970s with a jingle ("My bologna has a first name, it's O-S-C-A-R...").
Big deal! (Well, maybe it is a big deal; I wouldn't know, since I have never been to the US.) There seems to be nothing in the article that justifies even mentioning that brand. Even if it was justified, why is it under the heading "Composition"? Brian Jason Drake 04:25, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oscar Mayer 

message: In the UK "Polony" - which is undoubtedly the same or very similar to Bologna - has been sold for many years as a sliced cold meat - it's sliced from a large sausage - about 5 inches in diameter, which invariably has a plastic inedible red skin. In the past brand names and so on were printed on the red wrapper, and I recall seeing them being sometimes in foreign language. Some of these were clearly imported from Poland - as they bore the brand PEK - which is a Polish brand - ( I believe PEK was originally a communist era farming co-operative - but I can find nothing to substantiate this)- and my guess is that the name Polony comes from those words - which quite possibly said "Polonia" - the name given in Latin to Poland, or the name for the wider Polish diaspora, or "Poloni" - the name for Poland in Albania.
It seems likely that Polony (from Poland) and Baloney (from Bologna) are confused because of their similarity, and because they'd frequently be sold from the same shop (delicatessen) - in the UK such a shop could just as easily be owned by a Pole or Eastern European, as it could by an Italian (as I guess would also be true in the US) - and I'd imagine that asking for Baloney, Polony or Bologna sausage would pretty much get you the same thing depending which shop you went in. Bologna is further confused in the UK by the visual similarity of the word to the French port Boulogne - which is a busy ferry port for people leaving the UK by car for France. It's generally pronounced "Burloine" but should be pronounced in French - "Boolonya".
These days Polony is pretty rare, and I have seen both Bologna and Baloney sold in delis over here. Poloney if you can get it tends to come in miniature version - around 5 inches long, and 2 inches in diameter, still in the red plastic and called "Polony Slicing Sausage"
What I love about issues like this, is that there're no right or wrong answers - just differences around the world. It's what makes the universe tick !
78.32.193.115 (talk) 20:27, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Polony - UK 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 
The result of the move request was: No consensus — JFG talk 13:21, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Bologna sausage →  – Everyone I know refers to this product as simply "bologna" and not as "bologna sausage". Bod (talk) 19:28, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: That's because it's most usually called "bologna". But bologna isn't available, so we have to disambiguate.--Cúchullain t/c 18:17, 30 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 22 September 2016 

message: I notice there is a citation required tag, but I nonetheless removed reference to Australian and New Zealand "very small sausages" in this section as:
# assertion not cited 
# even if it were cited, does not fit under sub-heading of South African polony; 
# I have personally never heard of small sausages called "palony" in any Australian region (the item referred to sounds like a description of "cocktail frankfurters" = U.S. "wieners").
I work in the food production and service industry (in Australia). I've asked around since I saw this assertion, and have yet to find anyone who's heard of such a thing. In the west of Australia they call a type luncheon meat "polony": it's a bit like Bologna, or what people in my part of country call Strasburg, and some call Devon. Nothing like "very small sausages".
Apologies if I have jumped the gun. If a citation for it appears at some stage, well and good, but it seemed too weird to leave in, until then.--210.49.207.142 (talk) 12:14, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  
South African
 Polony