SC - Ham
Philip & Susan Troy
troy at asan.com
Fri Sep 24 07:05:14 PDT 1999
Elysant at aol.com wrote:
>
> -Poster: <Elysant at aol.com>
>
> > Since, uncured ham is called "fresh ham", sugar cured ham is called "sugar
> > cured ham", salty ham has several names, all including the word "ham", and
> > smoked ham is called just that...
> >
> > Mordonna
>
> We also have gammon in Britain. I know it is not classed as ham, but don't
> really remember now what exactly it is defined as outside of learning that it
> comes from a different part of the pig than ham does.
Gammon is usually cured side meat, what we'd call bacon. Unfortunately
for the nomenclature-obsessed, a side of gammon can include the hind
leg, so while ham can sometimes be classified as bacon, bacon can't be
classified as ham.
Confused yet???
Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy
troy at asan.com
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