"Giusi" > wrote
> Correct. Plus, it seems strange to me for someone to pay $1.79 a pound
> for meat to provide which an animal had first to be reared, then
> slaughtered and then be cured and claim he was ripped off because the
> package was by his estimate 90 cents short on animal.
>
> The only meat I can get for that price is chicken backs.
>

Wow. I would hate that. I paid 99 cents a pound for a ham butt portion last
week, it was wonderful. I was reading up on the nutrient content in this
kind of ham and it is not as fatty as I thought it would be. The salt and
nitrites are still a concern, but it is a fairly lean cut.