35% Boiled Ham
Matt Purdy 2005
35% Boiled Ham
Matt Purdy 2005
| What initially interested me
about this subject is that it was cheap. I purchased it on sale for
$1.99/lb. At the time, I thought I was purchasing boiled ham.
It wasn't until I got home and looked at the label that I realized that
it was thirty-five percent boiled ham. Thirty-five percent boiled
ham? Did this mean that the ham I had just purchased was sixty-five
percent not cooked, or sixty-five percent not ham?
I was so confounded by this conundrum that I inquired about it as I was replenishing my supply of cheap-ass ham later that week. The deli lady said that she kind of remembered being asked that before, but didn't remember what the answer was. After a moment of focused thought, she said that she was pretty sure it meant that it contained thirty-five percent additives. So it's thirty-five percent not ham. According to the deli lady, the additives that make up the thirty-five percent in question consist of, like, salt maybe. |