"Send a Salami to your Boy in the Army!" the salami-shipping trend has transcended the decades since World War II .
Most people credit Katz’s Deli for “Send a Salami to Your Boy in the Army,” but it actually comes from Louie the Waiter.
12 November 1943, Washington Post, pg. 13:
The New Yorker will do a profile on Louie, the Waiter, who coined the couplet, “Send a Salami to Your Boy in the Army,” and who alone sold $2,060,000 in war bonds at the delicatessen in the Fifties where he is employed.
The bonds he sold paid for 66 P-47 THunderbolt fighter planes and each bore the name “Louie the Waiter” and his sales record to that date.