Salami is thought to have originated in Italy from as far back as Roman times. The word salami comes from the Latin for salt - sale or to salt – salare. Most Southern, Eastern, and Central European countries boast of salami-making traditions that date back several centuries. They, no doubt, dispute the Italians' claim.
Unlike most meats, salami doesn't have to be cooked. Instead, it's safe to consume raw due to fermentation and drying processes that prevent bacteria from inhabiting it. Nonetheless, you can still cook salami enough to warm it up if you want to add it to a sandwich or hot dish. In some regions, horse and donkey meat is used for Salami preparation; however, those are rare cases. The other ingredients of salami are white pepper, wine, vinegar, herbs, minced fat and garlic.
You want to steal a lot of money, but you don't want to get caught. So instead of stealing it all at once, you steal tiny amounts of money from lots of people in a way that makes it very unlikely any one of them will notice.
Also known as Salami Slicing (because salami is traditionally sliced so thinly, people are unlikely to notice the difference between a chunk of salami and the same chunk with a single slice removed, but if you steal one slice each from dozens of salami, you will eventually get a full sausage's worth of meat without the risk of being noticed like if you had simply stolen a salami).