Even chopping those slices into smaller bits was a full body weight on the knife affair. It was much firmer than the stuff I occasionally buy pre-chopped at the supermarket.
More generally, I suspect that whole salami will have fewer weird shelf-life chemicals in than the pre-sliced stuff, as well as working out cheaper, so I wanted to try the experiment with this fancy one I had in the cupboard having bought a post-Christmas stock-shifting mystery box from a UK cured meat company.