One American suggested thinking of it as sausage loaf, delicious on crusty bread with spicy mustard, while another compared it to "fried bologna" and agreed to its scrumptiousness.
"If freedom is right and tyranny wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time?" He would have said the same, with his unwavering gimlet glare, 50 years later.Yet there was no discounting the other side.
The sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, Joe Arpaio, who bills himself as "the toughest sheriff in America", feeds his charges bologna sandwiches two or three times a day, gives them tent housing and jail-issue pink underwear, and deprives them of coffee.
Results: Atalanta 0 1 Reggina, Cagliari 2 0 Napoli, Catania 2 0 Sampdoria, Genoa 0 1 Lazio, Juventus 1 1 Internazionale, Milan 5 1 Torino, Palermo 4 1 Bologna, Roma 3 2 Lecce, Siena 0 2 Chievo, Udinese 3 1 Fiorentina.
Results: Catania 2-1 Atalanta, Chievo 2-1 Inter, Fiorentina 2-2 Torino, Genoa 1-0 Roma, Juventus 3-0 CagLazio, Lazio 1-0 Bologna, Milan 2-1 Sassuolo, Napoli 5-1 Verona, Parma 2-0 Livorno, Udinese 3-3 Sampdoria Latest Serie A table.
Where Juventus were under pressure to respond to second-placed Roma's victory over Bologna a day earlier, Torino were already outstripping all expectations for this season and could afford to throw caution to the wind.
Tevez's clever shot on the turn after 30 minutes proved enough to restore the Italian champions' advantage over Roma, who edged out Bologna on Saturday night.
Jonathan Pearce was once best known for Robot Wars and his classic radio commentary intro to 1993's England v San Marino game ("Welcome to Bologna on Capital Gold Sport for England versus San Marino with Tennent's Pilsner brewed with Czechoslovakian yeast for that extra Pilsner taste and England are one down").
Two days later, Roma continued their incredible start to the campaign by hammering Bologna 5-0.
When the Lazio manager Vladimir Petkovic pulled Miroslav Klose out of his team's rout of Bologna with 24 minutes left to play, he thought he was doing his striker a favour.
Carlos Tevez was unable to respond to Immobile this weekend, since he never got off the bench during Juve's 1-0 win over Bologna.
