Canada’s largest bologna producer, Maple Leaf Foods, estimates that the province’s 530,000 residents put away 4.2 million pounds of bologna a year. All that made “the big stick,” a 9.7-pound bologna sausage encased in wax, the shop’s big seller. It even has a mascot, the pink and cylindrical Mr. Big Stick, who appears regularly in parades and at community events. Ask Mr. Phillips to describe in words how Maple Leaf bologna tastes, and he is stumped. “I’m not going to say rubbery, but it was a dense texture,” Mr. Phillips said of the old stuff.

Source: New York Times January 13, 2017 10:00 UTC