"PENMART01" > wrote in message
...
> Christine Dabney > writes:
>
> >Hiya all,
> >
> >I got curious, and decided to google for the definition of a
> >Smithfield ham.
> >
> >This supposedly is the official definition of a Smithfield ham, so I
> >was correct after all, for the most part.
> >
> >"Genuine Smithfield hams [are those] cut from the carcasses of
> >peanut-fed hogs, raised in the peanut-belt of the State of Virginia or
> >the State of North Carolina, and which are cured, treated, smoked, and
> >processed in the town of Smithfield, in the State of Virginia."
> >1926 Statute passed by General Assembly of Virginia
>
> With absolutely no varifiable corroboration your definition amounts to
> gibberish... also because what I believe you meant to write is "Smithfield
> Ham", not "Smithfield ham". BIG difference.
>

'Genuine' is the key word here.

Jack Bona