On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 12:41:32 +0100, "Mary Fisher"
wrote:


"Owain" wrote in message
...
"Mike Mitchell" wrote
| Er - have you honestly seen sides of ham on a supermarket shelf?
| Tins of ham, then!
| LOL! Not QUITE the same thing ... :-)
| Indeed. Horrid, watery stuff.

As a child I took an instant dislike to what I named "plastic ham"

I was once given some in a restaurant which offered 'home cooked ham' and
when I complained said that it WAS home cooked.

Quite apart from the look, smell and flavour, it came in oblong slices with
nicely rounded corners. Why do they think they can fool you?

They told me it was from well-rounded pigs. I thought they'd been
looked after nicely. Like battery hens. I thought they were made in
Taiwan, and really humane. That's when I still thought it was in
Thailand. Well, you would, wouldn't you. It was ages before I realised
that Santa was actually the milkman!

MM