Re: CHAT: cross-culturation

Re: Adam Walker on Monday, December 03, 2001 5:04 PM

> There is such a thing as turkey ham.  It's made from the dark meat and
comes
> in lots of lunch meat packages.  Check it out next time you're at the
> supermarket.  (I'm speaking to Americans.)  The taste is actually pretty
> close to ham.  So ham with out a modifier DEFINITELY refers to pork, but
can
> be modified by turkey in which case it is fake ham made from turkey dark
> meat.
>
> Adam who misses being able to buy turkey whenever he wants it
Thanks for the info (also to John and Mike), though it's still vague...
There's a kind of food made of meat. In Russian it's called {vetchina}. If
it's made of pork, they don't use any modifier, or call it {svinaja v.}
(from {svin`ja} - 'pig'). I always thought that in English this dish was
called 'ham'. But!...
They make it also of beef (that's {gov`azhja v.}) or poultry (e.g. of
chicken - {kurinaja v.} or turkey - {ind`ushinaja v.}) That's what I meant
in my first reply - I thought it could refer to a "turkey ham"... It's
really made of dark meat.

Yitzik
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