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[Horst or Rebecca J. Bohner]

> I've eaten it. Sliced like bacon and fried, with crispy edges, it's not
> bad.

True.  As long as you don't think about what it is, or might be, or once
was, it's edible -- especially, as you note, fried.  I've also eaten it
cold, but only as a child, and although it was not actually *utterly*
revolting it wasn't something I could see myself eating by choice.

And when camping, fried bologna (a.k.a. "newfie steaks" for the Canadians
out there) is actually quite delicious.  Mind you, when you're in the middle
of Algonquin Park with 25 kilometres of canoeing and portaging behind you,
just about anything tastes good, and you aren't exactly fussy any more.  I
have a vivid memory of a fellow camper, ordinarily quite a fastidious young
woman, eating trail mix off a tree stump...
--
Rebecca J. Bohner
rebeccaj at pobox.com
http://home.golden.net/~rebeccaj