OK, let me keep this on the funny side and stick t bacon for a moment.
Baloney - something grossly stupid and or blatantly false.
As in : Baloney Steak...

Baloney as a word comes frmo people not being able to pronounce the name of a city - Bologna - which is where they tarditionally make MORTADELLA - a giant leviathan of a boiled sausage, known since Republican Rome
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MortadellaMortadella is also very popular in Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Chile and Uruguay, thanks to the Italian immigrants that established in these countries in the early 20th century. The normal spelling in these countries, however, is
mortadela, and its recipe is quite similar to the traditional Italian, with additional pepper grains.

In Hungary they have a similar product called in Hungarian mortadella and a plain variety called Pariser, Parizer or Párizsi. In France it is known as
Lyoner and in Germany as
Extrawurst