"Kent" wrote
> "cshenk" wrote

>> your part of the country? Here it is sold as 'ham' based on the cut and
>> if it hasnt been pre-cooked, has to be labeled something like 'must be
>> cooked before eating' or some semblance there-of. I will say that they

> You should be able to eat the Gwaltney Hams without cooking them. In fact
> some do. I may try it. Every time I've tried to cook a dry cured Virginia
> ham something didn't work out, and I ended up with a bunch of ham
> fragments..

Snicker, the dried ones are quite a different tactic indeed.

There are also the spiral sliced ones (pre-cooked, just heat and eat) ut we
dont like those very much. The spiral slices are so thin, you might as well
hit up the deli counter. Flavor of them is largely sugar to us. While I
recognize many enjoy that, we do not.