Salami - from the Italian salame, "salted pork" - led to a more overtly political phrase, salami tactics.

At one end werefogafa puddings in cloth bags, goose pate and slabs of salted pork.

David munched on a piece of crisp, salted pork.

Families had their own store of long-lasting dry products, rye for making bread, barley for beer, dried peas for soup and smoked or salted pork.

Give Caesar a mess of dried peas or chickpeas or lentils cooked with a knuckle of salted pork and he was happy.

And this is first-rate salted pork.

He could swing a cleaver and chop ten-pound chunks out of a log of salted pork.

After the flour came ten barrels of salted pork, and then three of dried apples.

Cranston stepped aside as a butcher and two fletchers rolled barrels of salted pork down to the store house.

The soldiers' diets often sometimes included salted pork, salted beef, salt, vinegar, and dried fruits and vegetables.