December 1999 - MSNBC

"The most exciting package came yesterday. The trusty folks in the mail room e-mailed the good news that the box from Salami.com had arrived. I found Salami.com by accident a few years ago, back when it seemed like only a few hundred of us were wired to the Web. The proprietors told me that even then, they got international orders for their sausages and salamis, often from places where such stuff wasn’t obtainable. As one of the original online merchants, they have, as evidenced by their diligent packaging, got the sending of perishable goods down to a science."