Monday, April 20, 2009

How much are you paying for water? If you are buying ham water, it can get expensive...

For most other purposes, under US law, a "ham" is a cured hind leg of pork that is at least 20.5% protein (not counting fat portions) and contains no added water. However, "ham" can be legally applied to such things as "turkey ham" if the meat is taken from the thigh of the animal. If the ham has less than 20.5% but is at least 18.5% protein, it can be called "ham with natural juices". A ham that is at least 17.0% protein and up to 10% added solution can be called "ham—water added". Finally, "ham and water product" refers to a cured hind leg of pork product that contains any amount of added water, although the label must indicate the percent added ingredients. If a ham has been cut into pieces and molded, it must be labelled "sectioned and formed" or "chunked and formed".

This is a great piece about/of ham:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham

I came a cross a blog called Hot Ham Water: http://hot-ham-water.blogspot.com/
which has the sub-title: "Some Day this will mean little to anyone."
That must have occurred in 2007, since her last post was about two years ago... Loved the title: Hot Ham Water. HHW. That would make a great password, Folks.


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