National Bologna Day Timeline

1974

My bologna has a name

One of the most successful and longest-running commercials ever made came from Oscar Meyer, featuring a child fishing and singing a jingle about how his bologna is named Oscar Meyer.

1963

Officially bologna

In 1963, the New York Board of Education included bologna as an official lunch item, helping to feed the children in the country's largest public school system.

1929-1939

Nothing Depressing About Bologna

During the Great Depression, bologna was one of the most accessible foods to Americans. It was affordable and it kept well for long periods of time. This made the bologna sandwich a mainstay for many Americans and, also, how it garnered the reputation as something consumed during hard times.

1928

The coolest thing about sliced bread

In 1928, bread slicers were commercialized forever changing the way Americans eat. Going from something available almost exclusively at deli counters to a homemade, bagged-lunch, pushed bologna sandwiches into ubiquity in the pre-Depression America.