Bologna Sausage

Bologna sausage

Bologna sausage, informally Baloney, is an American cooked sausage. It derives from Italian mortadella Bologna PGI, a variety of mortadella, a large salume. Its seasonings include black pepper, nutmeg, allspice, celery seed, coriander, and myrtle berries.

Bologna

Bologna is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy, with 391,473 inhabitants from 150 different nationalities. Its metropolitan province is home to more than 1 million people as of 2026. Bologna is most famous for being the home to the oldest university in continuous operation, the University of Bologna, established in AD 1088.

Sausage

A sausage is a type of meat product usually made from ground meat—often pork, beef, or poultry—along with salt, spices and other flavourings. Other ingredients, such as grains or breadcrumbs, may be included as fillers or extenders.

bologna

Noun

1. A seasoned Italian sausage made from beef, pork or veal.

Noun

1. Synonym of baloney (“nonsense”).

sausage

Noun

1. A food made of ground meat (or meat substitute) and seasoning, packed in a section of the animal's intestine, or in a similarly cylindrical shaped synthetic casing.
2. An individual item of this food.

Verb

1. To squeeze (something) tightly into in a rolled or sausage-like form.
2. To squeeze (something) into something tightly fitting.