Re: CHAT: cross-culturation
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 5, 2001, 5:43 |
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Nik Taylor wrote:
>John Cowan wrote:
>> Certainly. The English language, at least, admits no ham
>> (as a food item) that is not pork.
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>Not necessarily. I've also heard of "Turkey ham", which is turkey
>prepared like ham, but is still 100% turkey.
If pigs had a marketing organization, they could prevent that misnomer, just
as the French Champagne people made Calif. and NY producers stop calling
their bubbly "Champagne".
It is a processed product made to taste (more or less) like "ham". As I
said before, you don't want to know how it's made......... ;-) (There was a
commercial on TV a few years back that purported to show the process--
humorously, but not too far off the mark, as I understand it.) (end rant).