On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:00:37 -0700, "Kent" wrote:


If you didn't make ham, then you ****ed it up. Because that's what
ham is - brined pork with nitrites. Yes technically to be called
ham it must be front he hind leg, but that has nothing to do with
the end result - taste.


Did you mean picnic?
From refdesk.com
pic·nic (pknk) n.
A smoked section of pork foreleg and shoulder."
Also from refdesk.com
"ham (hm) n.
1. The thigh of the hind leg of certain animals, especially a hog.
2. A cut of meat from the thigh of a hog."

No, he meant ham. Note the 4th word on the last Swertz line above.
refdesk.com doesn't impress me much.
That foreleg cut was a picnic before it was smoked. Still was, after.

See this page:
http://www.askthemeatman.com/hog_cut...tive_chart.htm

The butt (iirc) you cured was still a butt after curing. However--cut
some of it off, serve it to a person who didn't see whence it came,
and they'll say "ham." (Well, unless it's 'Prof' de la Paz, who'll
say 'salmon' [gratuitous Heinlein reference])


"Every single religion that has a monotheistic god
winds up persecuting someone else."
-Philip Pullman
--
-denny-
(not as curmudgeonly as I useta be)