SC - Ham

[Bonne of Traquair]

><< since ham is always pork  >>
>Not true.
>
>ham [1] (noun) [Middle English hamme, from Old English hamm; akin to Old 
>High
>German hamma ham, Greek kneme shinbone, Old Irish cnaim bone] First 
>appeared
>before 12th Century
>    b : a buttock with its associated thigh -- usu. used in pl.
>
>  2 : a cut of meat consisting of a thigh; especially : one from a hog
>
>As you can see, according to Merriam-Webster, a ham is many things and it's
>use as a term for a type of thigh meat is not restricted to pork but is 
>used
>in particular to refer to that meat.

and though you can have fresh ham, usually the word also indicates that the 
meat has been cured with salt, whether dry or in brine, and may or may not 
have been smoked as well.

Bonne

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