[Phrenzy]

Is the origin of using the word, baloney, to imply a statement is untruthful?

[toyg]

I expect it comes from reactions to earlier attempts to pass US-made sausages for actual mortadella (aka ”bologna"), as in "that's not Bologna, that's <anglicized distortion of the name>!", which was then shortened to "that's baloney".

[llm_trw]

According to some citizen of Bologna: Yes.