"TFM®" > wrote

> "Nancy Young" > wrote

>> I didn't write this letter to Cook's Country:
>>
>> Many years ago, when I was throwing my first dinner party,
>> I wanted to serve ham. I had forgotten the brand of ham
>> my mother usually bought, and I didn't really have a clue
>> how to make her candied ham, but I decided to improvise.
>> I took the large ham out of the can, scraped off the jelly,
>> spread mustard and brown sugar on the top, and then
>> covered the top with pineapple rings. After baking it for a
>> few hours, I took the ham out to serve to my hungry guests.
>> It looked a little strange because all the toppings had fallen
>> off the ham and into the pan. My husband soon found out why when he went
>> to carve the ham. The ham was still
>> encased in plastic!
>> Ahem.
>
>
> Barbecue guru that I may be, ahem, some dozen years or so ago I bought a
> small ham and decided to smoke it.
>
> I removed the plastic and placed it on the smoker.
>
> Imagine my surprise to discover it had been cooking in a second layer of
> plastic for 4 hours.
>
> I didn't get much smoke ring.
>
> Tomorrow I'll tell the chorizo story...

OMG, I've been famous in these parts for years because I
once baked a ham in that damned plastic bag. Who knew
it was there?? It was invisible. I glazed the thing and baked
it. Hours later there was a little shrunken ham in a shriveled
plastic bag.

Now I'm finding out there are other victims of this ham
packaging practical joke???

nancy (will look for the chorizo story tomorrow)