Oh, Bologna!
I tried it... and I still don't like it.
Bologna, or its Americanized name "baloney," recently had a star appearance on The Colbert Report. I was stunned as I watched the story on how bologna's prices have risen so fast, and the meat is in such high demand that it has created an opportunity for smuggling black market bologna across the border from Mexico.
I don't like bologna. But as I watched kids on The Colbert Report tuck into their bologna slices with delight, I realized that I literally could not remember the last time I ate some. My earliest bologna-related memory is just a vague feeling of dread at kindergarten that I would get to the lunch table late and have to get stuck with a bologna sandwich. Clearly my opinion had been solidified before the time I was five or six. But at this point, as I near 40, "I hate bologna" was basically just received wisdom.
