"Dan Abel" > wrote in message
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> In article >,
> "Kent" > wrote:
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>> Costco[tightwad, certified]. When you "bake" a ham all you're doing is
>> warming up an already cooked product.
>
> We buy uncooked hams. They are cheaper and taste better. In the US at
> Easter time, they just about give them away, US$1.29 a pound, sometimes
> less. The whole hams are the cheapest, but that's way more than we can
> eat. The shank half is cheaper, but we tend to burn the bone, making
> the house smell bad. So we usually get the butt half, which is the most
> expensive.
>
>
Do you mean uncured fresh ham? The cured uncooked ham I'm aware of in the
U.S. are the
dry cured Virginia hams and Smithfield Hams[a form of Virginia ham]. They're
a lot more than $1.29/lb.

Kent