Salami Tactics

I always thought Klinger got salami from Tony Packo's in Toledo. The place is still around so I looked it up. It doesn't sell salami, only "Hungarian hot dogs" (some Hungarian-American invention), chili (an Ohio thing), and other Hungarian food like stuffed cabbage.
In any case, we are in the Mecca of Hungarian salami, Szeged, home of the Pick Salami factory.
We took a tour of the factory and saw how they traditionally make salami. From cutting up the meat.
To curing it to create the proper layer of mold on the outside.
It is worth noting that touring a salami factory does not make you crave salami more. You learn that the best casings are made from horse intestines, and you see what parts go of the pig into the salami.
The tradition of using pork is interesting because the founders of Pick salami are Jewish. Jeno Pick, the last owner of the factory before its nationalization under the communists, survived the holocaust (like so many Hungarian Jews) with the help of the Swedish Embassy.

This is another famous Hungarian Jew, Matyas Rakosi, the Stalinist dictator of the country in the 1940s and 50s.
Originally Matyas Rosenfeld, he is one of the few Jews to ever become head of a European government (Nicolas Sarkozy, another Hungarian, is part, Leon Blum, Benjamin Disraeli). Rakosi famously crushed his opponents by using what he called "salami tactics." This involved splitting them apart from each other and defeating them one at a time, like slicing a salami.

The other food Szeged seems known for is pastries. Have you ever gone to a pastry shop and not been able to decide which one to order?
I haven't.