Salami cut-outs — Fail!

Don’t try this at home. or at work. The taste is absolutely totally humongously terrible!

Why?? I. don’t. know.

I etch little sausages and they’re fine. Every other food item I’ve etched I’ve been able to eat with at most tasting only a slight bit of a burn flavor.

But this stuff I swear turned into something else. How to know which sausages work? Have any ideas? I’ll be much more wary tasting these things going forward.