The "Future Rise in Bacon Prices?" Ours have been going up for several years. $5.00 and $6.00 a pound is not uncommon anymore.
And the first time I ever heard of "fried Baloney" sandwiches, all I could say was "Wha!!! yuck"
I think fried is the best way to eat baloney. As a kid, we would have it as a breakfast meat on occasion. Not my favourite, but pretty good once in a while. I haven't had it in decades. I don't remember having fried baloney on sandwiches.
I'm reminded of a story some friends told me. They were discussing which foods are good when you are broke. One of the white people mentioned "cowboy steak", a fried slice of baloney. After the nods and grunts of agreement, one of the Miꞌkmaq people replied, "That's for when you have money. When you're broke, it's salmon."