Thread: Ham shortage?
View Single Post
  #14 (permalink)   Report Post  
Posted to rec.food.cooking
Sheldon Sheldon is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 9,551
Default Ham shortage?

On Jun 25, 7:09�pm, Lou Decruss > wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:07:29 -0700, Serene Vannoy
>
> > wrote:
> >Sqwertz wrote:
> >> Serene Vannoy > wrote:

>
> >>> (We're going to end up having pork enchiladas instead. I found a bone-in
> >>> pork butt for $4.50 a pound, and I'm pressure-cooking it now...

>
> >> I never pay more than $1.69/lb for pork butts. �$1.19 for picnics.
> >> And $1.59 for boneless pork butt chunks.

>
> >Well, I wasn't going to worry about the price in this instance. We
> >couldn't find a ham, so I wanted some big piece of pig to compensate.

>
> Pork tenderloin is about $3.50 here. �If I paid $4.50 for a butt I'd
> want a BJ too.


I think you'd best get that BJ before you do butt.