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[Roy Morgan <k1lky AT earthlink.net>]

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I searched for a while for a real Virginia ham to send to Roy's ex-in- 
laws as a  thank you present, and couldn't find one. I had to get my  
Dad to dig one up, and it even took him awhile.

I have occasionally bought this        http://www.applegatefarms.com/Products/Details.aspx?ProductID=187 
     no nitrate added bacon. Very yummy.   Bacon, the pork version of  
pot....the gateway drug. *lol*




On Oct 7, 2008, at 1:04 PM, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:

> > > Ray, I am not sure if the stuff you find in hams is the same. I
> > imagine it is. Sounds like James would know. : )
>
> More's the pity, but I do.  Those watery holiday hams (I must  
> confess my
> bigotry here and tell you that around there that sort of ham is  
> referred to as
> 'Yankee ham' as opposed to good old salt cured ham) indeed have  
> phosphates.  They
> aren't so much as injected as soaked in the stuff and the main  
> reason, I'm
> guessing, is to add water weight.   But that's not the half of it,  
> most of those
> hams also have sodium nitrate and sodium nitirite.  The nitrate is  
> no real
> problem but the nitrite is unhealthy in the extreme.  It is only  
> there to
> preserve the fake red color (the nitrate is to check rancidity).
>
> Alas, and double alas, the otherwise magnificient real hams, Clifty  
> Farms and
> Smithfield (Tennessee style and Virginia style respectively) also have
> nitrites.  It doesn't mean I never eat them, but it was one of the  
> main reasons we
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