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Mortadella di Campotosto (popularly called coglioni di mulo) is a salami produced in limited quantities in the territory of the comune (municipality) of Campotosto, in the province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo.
Mortadella Bologna PGI from Italy Mortadella with pistachios from Italy. Mortadella (Italian: [mortaˈdɛlla]) [1] is a large salume made of finely hashed or ground cured pork, which incorporates at least 15% small cubes of pork fat (principally the hard fat from the neck of the pig) from which the world renowned affordable comfort food ingredient Bologna sausage is derived from.
Salumi (sg.: salume, Italian:) are Italian meat products typical of an antipasto, predominantly made from pork and cured. Salumi also include bresaola, which is made from beef, and some cooked products, such as mortadella and prosciutto. The word salume, 'salted meat', derives from the Latin sal, 'salt'. Examples of salumi include:
Pink waves of mortadella — the Italian pork sausage that inspired bologna — are rippling over plates of antipasti, in sandwiches and on pizzas across L.A. It might even show up in your cocktail.
Bologna sausage, informally baloney (/ b ə ˈ l oʊ n i / bə-LOH-nee), [1] is a sausage derived from the salume mortadella, a similar-looking, finely ground pork sausage, originating from the Italian city of Bologna (IPA: [boˈloɲɲa] ⓘ).
Italy is home to 395 Michelin star-rated restaurants. [14] [15] The Mediterranean diet forms the basis of Italian cuisine, rich in pasta, fish, fruits and vegetables. [16] Cheese, cold cuts and wine are central to Italian cuisine, and along with pizza and coffee (especially espresso) form part of Italian gastronomic culture. [17]
A wide variety of sausages (Italian: salsiccia, Italian: [salˈsittʃa]; pl.: salsicce) are made in Italy, having evolved through the centuries into many regional varieties. [1] The sausages will typically be either a type of fresh sausage (Italian: salsiccia fresca), or a type of dried sausage (Italian: salsiccia secca).
A quick google (beginning with Mortadella asino) throws up what appear to me to be sound sources which confirm and extend your friend’s information: Anciently, in Bologna, donkey and/or horse were added to the pork. (The same page refers to a museum of industry in Bologna, which includes a section devoted to Mortadella production. Might be ...